Events in the Department

Wednesday 1st March from 1-2 pm in the Quillen Room (N3.12). We will be discussing the pros and cons of targets vs quotas when it comes to creating more diversity in mathematics.

Today, 16:00, L1

Aleksander Horawa (North Wing) - Bitcoin, elliptic curves, and this building

Dr Jemima Tabeart (South Wing) - Numerical linear algebra for weather forecasting

Full details

Ever wondered what is happening on the building site next door? What does it take to construct such a large structure? And what are the plans for Humanities' Schwarzman Centre when it is finished?

The Humanities team would like to invite us all to a talk by William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History in the History Faculty and academic lead for the Schwarzman Centre project. William will explain what is going on and why, and will explain what the Division are hoping to achieve with the new Humanities building.

L1, 4 pm

This session will introduce the opportunities for entrepreneurship and generating commercial impact available to researchers and students across MPLS. Representatives from the Maths Institute and across the university will discuss training and resources to help you develop your ideas.

To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, we will be joined by MPLS LGBTQ+ Role Model Evan Nedyalkov to discuss LGBTQ+ issues within the department as well as in Maths more generally. We will be in the Quillen Room N3.12 from 1 - 2pm on Wednesday 15th February. Note that this event is open to all and that there will be a free lunch provided. Let us know that you're coming so that we can order enough food.

Fermat's Last Tango is a 2000 musical written by Joshua Rodenblum and Joanne Sydney Lessner. The musical presents a fictionalised version of the real life story of a certain Andrew Wiles.

And now the Oxford University Dramatics Society are putting in on the Andrew Wiles Building from 2nd-5th March.

Full details and booking

Seminars in the building:

Wednesday 15th February (5th week), 17:00, L4
Rogério Monteiro de Siqueira (Universidade de São Paolo) - ‘On Green’s theorem: a visual history through textbooks and other printed matter’

Wednesday 22nd February (6th week), 17:00, L4
Nicolas Michel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) - ‘On the uses and abuses of the history of mathematics’

Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture

Cascading Principles - Conrad Shawcross and James Sparks with Fatos Ustek
Thursday 23 February
5pm - 6.15pm
Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute, Oxford

Today:
This afternoon Fridays@4 is in the Dept of Statistics for their Florence Nightingale Lecture:

Professor Marloes Matthuis (ETH Zurich) - Causal learning from observational data