MARS: Mathematics for AI in Real-world Systems, based in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Lancaster University, is offering fully-funded, four-year PhD studentships for UK fees status students starting in October 2026.
Fridays@2 is back again for Trinity term, and Week 2's session is our highly requested Finals Forum!
Pipp & Co Doughnuts - every Thursday from 30 April, only £3 each:A clip from James Maynard's Sophie Germain Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture held at the Royal Institution on 1 April, Sophie's 250th. You can watch all five talks - our own Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, Laura Monk and a Chladni figures demonstration by Dan Plane as well as James- here
You may have noticed we are running a series of short films on the maths behind popular games (card, board, digital, nothing is off limits). So we want contributors for the following games plus any ideas you have of your own.
Poker, Blackjack, Roulette, Chess, Go, Bridge, Monopoly, Tsuro, Carcasonne, Cathedral, Minecraft, Catan, Ticket to Ride, Saboteur, Projective Noughts and Crosses, Projective Set, Splendour, Minesweeper, Backgammon, etc.
It's the Week 1 Student Bulletin! A clip from James Maynard's Sophie Germain Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture, one of five talks celebrating Sophie's life, work and influence held at the Royal Institution on 1 April, Sophie's 250th. You can watch all five talks - our own Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, Laura Monk and a Chladni figures demonstration by Dan Plane as well as James - here
15:30
Dehn Surgery and Algorithms
Abstract
Dehn Surgery is an operation on 3-manifolds that is ubiquitous in the field of low-dimensional topology. Concretely, given a link L in a 3-manifold N, Dehn surgery produces many new 3-manifolds. A classical result of Lickorish-Wallace states that from one fixed 3-manifold N one can obtain all other 3-manifolds by Dehn surgery using some link in N. However it remains unclear, in general, which manifolds can be obtained by Dehn surgery using a fixed manifold N and a fixed link L. I will discuss how one can algorithmically decide this question and then discuss applications of this algorithm.