Matters of the Moment

We now have TikTok to add to our social media stable (armoury?). For those of you who think TikTok is just full of ten second videos of animals, latest research suggests that 50% of all TikTok users in the USA are over 30 and 30% of 18-29 year-olds in the USA get news from TikTok. Also, when the University had all its recent issues with admissions tests, the largest proportion of feedback came on TikTok.

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Our second 'Show Me the Maths' film features Josh Bull from the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology on the South Side, 4th floor. If you haven't been up there the view is terrific, including from the outside walkway. You can also help them out with their jigsaw by the sofas which doesn't seem to be making much progress.

Our new short film series 'Show Me the Maths' doesn't beat about the mathematical bush. It gets right down to it. Down, that is, to the maths, in all its crucial, complex, sometimes incomprehensible (even to other mathematicians, so you say) guises.

The series will feature research in Number Theory, Mathematical Biology and the History of Mathematics, amongst others. If you want to join in let me (Dyrol) know.

If you were wondering why the building seemed busier at the beginning of the month, it is because we hosted nearly 600 girls aged 13-17 in the building for our event It All Adds Up.

Microsoft is making changes to its M365 education license terms worldwide in 2024. The changes mean a reduction in the overall capacity available to the university for its Nexus365 service (which includes Teams, OneDrive, Sharepoint, Nexus Email, Office365 online etc.). 

Understanding lung damage in COVID-19 patients - Josh Bull and Helen Byrne

Inheritance of nontrivial dynamics in chemical reaction networks - Murad Banaji

Sam Cohen and Ian Griffiths have been working with David Levy (of Asylum Welcome and the Reuters Institute) to run the Mathematical Sciences for Refugees and Asylum and Sanctuary Seekers meetings for the last two years.

The construction work for the Humanities Building next door continues apace, and is now slightly ahead of schedule. Some of the plant space and services for that building connect from, or are based in, the basement area below Maths. In order to move some more noisy works from next term, these works have been rescheduled to start in December.

Mathematical modelling of cleaning - Chloe Bernard, Torin Fastnedge, Ellen Luckins, Arkady Wey et al.

Multi-scale modelling of viral outbreak risks - William Hart and Robin Thompson

Beyond the Riemann hypothesis - primes and smooth numbers - Alexandru Pascadi & Jared Duker Lichtman

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