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

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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.

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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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We made a film about knots which received a lot of feedback (from boy scouts and retired sailors rather than mathematicians). So we made a follow-up. Over to you Sergio.

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