Andrew Wiles will be giving our first Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture on Tuesday 28 November at 6.30pm in the Science Museum in London. Andrew will be talking about his current work and after the lecture he will be in conversation with mathematician and broadcaster Hannah Fry.
The event is now full but you can watch it live. It will also be streamed on the Oxford University Facebook page.
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science, headquartered at the British Library. Five founding universities – Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick – and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council created The Institute in 2015. Now we are delighted to announce that four universities - Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Queen Mary University of London - are also set to join the Institute as university partners.
Warped cones are infinite metric spaces that are associated with actions by homeomorphisms on metric spaces. In this talk I will try to explain why the coarse geometry of warped cones can be seen as an invariant of the action and what it can tell us about the acting group.
When they aren't in their offices doing Maths our Faculty can be found in their offices writing books about doing Maths. Here is a recent sample of their labours.
Richard Earl's 'Towards Higher Mathematics: A Companion' aims, as its title suggests, to bridge the gap between school and University, giving sixth-formers an insight into and preparation for the mathematics they will be studying at University.
Understanding the distribution of subgraph counts has long been a central question in the study of random graphs. In this talk, we consider the distribution of Sn, the number of K4 subgraphs, in the Erdös Rényi random graph G(n, p). When the edge probability p \in (0, 1) is constant, a classical central limit theorem for Sn states that (Sn−µn)/σn converges in distribution. We establish a stronger form of convergence, namely the corresponding local limit theorem, which is joint work with O. Riordan.
Supporting female students is a priority for Oxford Mathematics, particularly on courses where women have historically been underrepresented. We are delighted that, due to the support of Booking.com, Oxford University can offer 10 scholarships to female Home/EU students studying MScs in mathematics, statistics and computer science in 2018-19.
I was speak on the way Newton carries out his calculus in the Principia in the framework of classical geometry rather than with fluxions, his deficiencies, and the relation of this work to inverse-square laws.
West Nile virus (WNV) is responsible for viral encephalitis in humans, a condition that causes inflammation of the brain and can have longer-lasting physical effects. WNV is also related to similar viruses such as Dengue and Zika that are also of significant public health concern.
