Skittles may count more towards your 'none a day' than your 'five a day', but they are excellent nutrition for peckish mathematicians. Or rather, picky mathematicians. James Munro has their number. 

Two million views and counting.

To celebrate British Sandwich Week (19–25 May), we’re introducing a special baguette in the Café: 

The Coronation Chicken Baguette.

The Erlangen AI Hub Conference will bring together leading minds from across the UK’s mathematical, algorithmic and computational communities to advance the application of pure mathematics in AI. 

9-11 June 2025

Maths Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS  

Registration deadline: 23 May 2025 (12 noon). Link above. 

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Topological model selection: a case-study in tumour-induced angiogenesis
McDonald, R Byrne, H Harrington, H Thorne, T Stolz, B (21 Apr 2025)

Present your research in just three minutes to win a prize. Oxford’s local SIAM-IMA student chapter invites you to give a three minute talk with the aid of a single slide aimed at a non-specialist audience. This competition is open to ALL research students in the Mathematical Institute, in both pure and applied mathematics.

Drop rebound at low Weber number
Gabbard, C Aguero, E Cimpeanu, R Kuehr, K Silver, E Barotta, J Galeano-Rios, C Harris, D (01 May 2025)
Fri, 20 Jun 2025

12:00 - 13:00
Quillen Room

How to solve the Rubik's cube?

Mario Marcos Losada
(University of Oxford)
Abstract

Let p be a prime. In this talk we look at the bounded derived category of modules over the Rubik’s cube group and show that the faithful action on the corners and edges is a progenerator for the coadmissible subcategory.

Frequency Synchronization Induced by Frequency Detuning
Ocampo-Espindola, J Bick, C Motter, A Kiss, I (07 May 2025)
On the rectifiability of $\mathsf{CD}(K,N)$ and $\mathsf{MCP}(K,N)$ spaces with unique tangents
Magnabosco, M Mondino, A Rossi, T (02 May 2025)

This year, the Talking Maths in Public conference will take place at the University of Warwick and online, on Thursday 28th - Saturday 30th August. TMiP is a biannual meeting for people who communicate maths in a variety of forms, from professional outreach providers to people who deliver maths enrichment activities alongside their work. 

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