Hello all, we are the Mirzakhani Society, a group for all the women and non-binary mathematicians at Oxford. We run lots and lots of relaxed events from pizza nights to career conferences. Our main aim is to create a warm and welcoming environment for women* to come together and chat about life, maths and anything in-between.
Did you know that nearly 40 early career researchers in the department actively play a musical instrument? If you haven't told us yet about your extra-mathematical talents, especially faculty, please let Dyrol know which instrument you play. We may (may) do a feature next term on maths and music. You know, get a band together, that sort of thing.
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A French horn, one of the instruments we play.
Part of the Oxford Discrete Maths and Probability Seminar, held via Zoom. Please see the seminar website for details.
In a recent breakthrough Campos, Griffiths, Morris and Sahasrabudhe obtained the first exponential improvement of the upper bound on the classical Ramsey numbers since 1935. I will outline a reinterpretation of their proof, replacing the underlying book algorithm with a simple inductive statement. In particular, I will present a complete proof of an improved upper bound on the off-diagonal Ramsey numbers and describe the main steps involved in improving their upper bound for the diagonal Ramsey numbers to $R(k,k)\le(3.8)^k$ for sufficiently large $k$.
Based on joint work with Parth Gupta, Ndiame Ndiaye, and Louis Wei.
