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Kit Yates recently met with Dr Yan from the BBC1 TV program Bang Goes the Theory to talk about conics.

The video is available on the BBC website

"Risk, Model Risk and Knightian Uncertainty: on the role of probability in finance"

The 2011 Nomura Lecture will be given by Professor Hans Follmer on
Thursday 12 May 2011 at 17:15 hours in the Examinations Schools.

The Mary Cartwright Lecture takes place on Friday 25th February in the University Museum.

A reception will be held after the meeting at the Mathematics Institute followed by a dinner at the Ashmolean Museum.

Full details are available on the poster

The first week long Saudi Arabian Study Group with Industry, organised by OCCAM and KAUST, was held last week at KAUST. Industrial study groups were pioneered in the UK by Oxford in the 1960s and now take place in over twenty countries around the World and have become the premier way of bringing academics and industry together.

Further details are available in [file:saudi-study-group1.pdf=an article from the Saudi Gazette].

Two former DPhil students from the Oxford Mathematical Finance Group, Hualei Chang and Lei Jin, have joined Goldman Sachs.

The IMA Gold Medal is awarded in alternate years in recognition of outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years. This year the medal has been awarded to Nick Trefethen. The medal will be presented on 29 June 2011.

A recent interview with Thomas Woolley on how the stingray got its spots has appeared on the Oxford Science Blog. In the interview they discuss a recently published paper by Thomas Woolley, Ruth Baker and Philip Maini.

Radek Erban has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work on Applied Mathematics.

These Prizes, with a value of £70,000 each, are awarded to outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and where the expectation is that their greatest achievement is yet to come.

The Prizes commemorate the contribution to the work of the Trust made by Philip Leverhulme, the Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of the Founder.

David Acheson will give a public lecture, Mathematics, Magic and the Electric Guitar, at 7.30pm on Thursday 18 November at Science Oxford.

The event is in association with Oxford University Press.

Further details are available

A meeting on Open Mathematical Problems from Industry and Elsewhere is to held on Thursday December 9th 2010 to make the retirement of John Ockendon.

The idea of this one day meeting is to give participants the opportunity to air the 'problem you never solved'. This might be either a problem you have never had time to work on or one that has defeated you. There will be plenty of time for discussion and maybe a few problems will be solved during the day! (Alternatively, the meeting may provide John with a source of problems to work on during his retirement.)

Further information and a registration form are available.