Events in the Department

To tie in with mental health awareness week, in this session we'll give a brief overview of the mental health support available through the department and university, followed by a panel discussion on how we can look after our mental health in an academic setting. We're pleased that several of our department Mental Health First Aiders will be panellists - come along for hints and tips on maintaining good mental health and supporting your colleagues and friends.

Image: Gwen John - 'The Letter'

Join us for lunch on Wednesday 24th May from 1-2 in N3.12 to discuss general topics related to resilience and mental health. Register your interest here

Come along and watch some of our graduate students present their lifetime's work in three minutes and one slide. L1, 4pm.

Image: last year's winner, Jared Duker Lichtman

Our next Public Lecture features Tadashi Tokieda whose previous lecture is often cited as the best we have hosted. Details below.

Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: A world from a sheet of paper - Tadashi Tokieda
Wednesday 31 May, 2023, 5pm - 6pm, Mathematical Institute

How about taking a break from your busy day to focus on your wellbeing by enjoying some delicious brownies and sparkling tea? And enjoy a variety of activities like puzzles, crosswords, origami and Lego – or simply bring your own activity to enjoy (books, boardgames, crafts, or anything you like).

Liliana Borcea (Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan)

This talk is concerned with an inverse problem for the wave equation

L1, 4pm

Further details

We are delighted to welcome the Villiers Quartet back to Oxford Mathematics when they continue their 'Late Beethoven' series with three works:

Benjamin Britten - Three Divertimenti
Alexander Goehr - Quartet No. 5 "Vision of the Soldier, Er"
Ludwig van Beethoven - Quartet Op. 130

There will be a 20 minute interval before the Beethoven quartet.

Mathematical Institute, Oxford, OX2 6GG
May 27th, 7.30pm

Tickets £20 and £5 student concession

The cafe will be serving pizza on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2-4pm from next week onwards. Call it a sort of post-lunch pre-dinner snack. It proved very popular pre-pandemic, so why not take a look?

Join us in L6 from 1-2 on Wednesday 10th May to hear from female PhD students and postDocs from all areas of maths about their research. The short talks will be followed by a Q&A as well as a chance to mingle with the speakers over lunch in the Mezzanine. This event is primarily aimed at women and other minorities in mathematics, but everyone is welcome to come along. Sign up so that we have a good idea of numbers.

Lenka Zdeborová, (Professor of Physics and Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) - Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models

Friday 5^th May, 3.30 pm in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Statistics