Matters of the Moment

A dedicated quiet room is available in the Andrew Wiles Building for staff, students, visitors and guests who need space for reflection or prayer. Room S0.30, at ground level on the south of the building can be accessed during building hours via Reception, or by using your keycard. There is step-free access available for this facility. Please do let your guests and visitors know.

You may have seen our latest exhibition downstairs in the Mezzanine - colourful, mathematically inspired and, we hope, inspiring in turn to you all. Go down and have a long look.

For those of you (all?) who follow our social media we have now joined Bluesky as 'oxfordmathematics', though we are not leaving X as we don't want to abandon nearly 70,000 followers.

We haven't posted on Bluesky yet, not least because much of our content is now video and Bluesky has a small video file size. But we will.

As part of our 'Me and My Maths' series, a certain villainous character from 1893 infiltrated our films.

You can imagine the comments, informed and bewildered.

Here's a snippet from the current series of 'Me and My Maths', excellently edited by Evan. Tommy is a visiting student. 

'Meet the Head of Division’ informal coffee chat.

Professor James Naismith, Head of our MPLS Division, will be joining our coffee morning in the AWB Common Room on Thursday 23 January from 11 am. 

Please do join Jim for coffee if you can.

Lucky Jim.

In case you missed or, more likely, deleted the email this week, we are looking for volunteers for a series of short films about using maths (yours and maths generally) in everyday life, wittingly or unwittingly, or not at all.

So far we have had a LOT of cooking including bread and marmalade, but also pondering on how the plane you are sitting in is staying up there, and doing household chores in the most optimal way.

Email Dyrol (mathematically).

"Can be a social event for employees, or can include a year-end review, bonuses, gifts, or other forms of recognition. They can be held at the workplace or off-site, and can involve the whole company or just certain teams or departments." (Google AI overview)

Well, there are no plans for reviews or bonuses or gifts, but we are good for everything else.

Oxford Mathematics Christmas Party, 12th December, 4pm, Common Room. All teams welcome.

Join us on Tuesday, 3 December, from 12 to 2 pm. To book, simply speak to our café staff or email us at @email  

You can also use your cost centre vouchers for all bookings.

From today, the College Store which sells our swag (and that of many colleges and departments) will launch its Green Friday campaign. 

This offers a 15% discount on all items. Additionally, for every order placed using the discount code GREEN15, they will plant two trees instead of the one they usually plant on most purchases.