Those of you who were here last academeic year may remember us hosting Noether, a play about the mathematician Emmy Noether from Oxford student theatre company Cartesian Productions. Such was it success, it has been touring universities across the country and returns to the Andrew Wiles Building for its final show on 17th October.
Graham Farmelo's authorised biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published. The title of this Oxford Mathematics Roger Penrose Public Lecture is the same as the one that Hawking chose for his Lucasian Inaugural Lecture in April 1980. Graham will look at the genesis of his presentation, the splash it made and how views on the subject changed in later decades.
Graham Farmelo is a biographer and science writer. He has written an acclaimed biography of Paul Dirac as well as his biography of Stephen Hawking.
The Mathematical Institute will host a one-day quantum error correction (QEC) workshop on Wednesday September 23, 2026.
The aim of the workshop is to connect researchers working on QEC-related topics across the university, in different departments, and build relationships with other QEC researchers with similar interests. The workshop will give such researchers an opportunity to present their work, discuss their ideas, and collaborate with others working on related problems.
Mathematical Institute, Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 September.
This workshop will bring together graduate students and researchers in algebraic geometry. On Tuesday, 8 September, we will have a joint session with the CALF seminar (aimed at UK PhD students in algebraic geometry), featuring contributed talks by PhD students from both the UK and abroad. There will also be talks by postdocs and more senior researchers.