The Interim Head of the Equality and Diversity Unit, Marilyn Verghis, is delighted to invite staff and students to an Equali-tea on Tuesday, 1 July from 10.30-11.30am. The tea will be hosted by the Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles.

An online staff briefing on proposals for a temporary congestion charge in Oxford have been arranged with the County Council. This will take place at 11.30am-12.30pm on Monday 30 June. Colleagues interested in the proposals and their potential impact are welcome to join using the Teams links provided.

Following a University-wide communications survey in January 2025, the Internal Communications team is inviting staff to take part in follow-up discussion groups or share their views through a short, anonymous questionnaire during July. The aim is to gather more nuanced feedback that will help shape how the University communicates with staff in the future.

Erica Thompson's recent Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture is now available if you want to drop in.

The entanglement membrane in 2d CFT: reflected entropy, RG flow, and information velocity
Jiang, H Mezei, M Virrueta, J Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2025 issue 6 (12 Jun 2025)
Low-depth phase oracle using a parallel piecewise circuit
Sun, Z Boyd, G Cai, Z Jnane, H Koczor, B Meister, R Minko, R Pring, B Benjamin, S Stamatopoulos, N Physical Review A volume 111 issue 6 062420 (16 Jun 2025)
FS-GNN: Improving fairness in graph neural networks via joint sparsification
Zhao, J Huang, T Liu, S Yin, J Pei, Y Fang, M Pechenizkiy, M Neurocomputing 130641 (Jun 2025)
Wed, 06 Aug 2025
17:00
Lecture Theatre 1

From Theorems to Serums, From Cryptography to Cosmology … and The Simpsons - Simon Singh

Further Information

Join science writer Simon Singh on a whistle-stop tour through two decades of his bestselling books. 'Fermat’s Last Theorem' looks at one of the biggest mathematical puzzles of the millennium; 'The Code Book' shares the secrets of cryptology; 'Big Bang' explores the history of cosmology; 'Trick or Treatment' asks some hard questions about alternative medicine; and 'The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets' explains how TV writers, throughout the show’s 35-year history, have smuggled in mathematical jokes.

Please email @email to register to attend in person.

The Vicky Neale Public Lectures are a partnership between the Clay Mathematics Institute, PROMYS and Oxford Mathematics. The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.

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