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In this Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture we look at a variety of delicious delights through a lens of fluid dynamics and mathematical modelling. From perfect roast potatoes to sweet sauces, mathematics gets everywhere!

Helen Wilson is Head of the Department of Mathematics at UCL. She is best known for her work on the chocolate fountain (which features in this lecture) but does do serious mathematical modelling as well.

Ramsey numbers of cycles versus general graphs
Haslegrave, J Hyde, J Kim, J Liu, H Forum of Mathematics, Sigma volume 11 (17 Feb 2023)

Christine McVie, singer and songwriter with Fleetwood Mac, died this week, Christine was part of the band's most commercially successful period, but its first incarnation was as a blues band led, as on this track, by Peter Green.

Delta the pug looking very happy

 

Continuing our theme of Disability History Month from last week, our final Michaelmas Pet of the Week is Delta, from one of our DPhil students! Delta's owner Wojciech has the following to say: 

Fully Discrete Positivity-Preserving and Energy-Dissipating Schemes for
Aggregation-Diffusion Equations with a Gradient Flow Structure
Bailo, R Carrillo, J Hu, J (28 Nov 2018) http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11502v5

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Bulk-boundary correspondence and singularity-filling in long-range free-fermion chains
Jones, N Thorngren, R Verresen, R Physical Review Letters (16 Jun 2023)
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