Events in the Department

Back for another term and kicking off tomorrow @4 with You and Your Supervisor (by which they presumably don't mean just the two of you in there).

Next week: Colloquium with Tamara Kolda (details to follow).

Oxford Mathematics Roger Penrose Public Lecture

We'll be in the Common Room this coming Tuesday, 17th October from 11am. Come join us for a quick study break and meet fellow mathematicians.

Hosted by the University BME Staff Network and Mathematical Institute. Dr Christienna Fryar, writer and independent historian of Britain and the Caribbean, will deliver ‘Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History’, telling the stories of two mixed-race Jamaican women and questioning the fraught relationship between British history and Black British history.

31 October, 5pm, Andrew Wiles Building

The Head of Department, James Sparks, warmly invites you to the Annual Institute Celebration, to be held at 5.00pm on Wednesday 18^th October (week 2), in Lecture Room 1, Mathematical Institute. We are delighted to announce that James Maynard will be giving a talk.

For some of you it was recently. For some of us a long, long time ago.

Monday, 9am, Lecture Theatre 1, Andrew Wiles Building. The first day of term for our new undergraduates. The lecture? 'Probability' with Matthias Winkel. Let their journey begin.

In September the MI hosted Models of Consciousness 2023 (MoC4), an international conference on mathematical modelling in consciousness science. With Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) the stated goal of big tech, there is now an urgent need for science to better understand where in the landscape of different systems lie the boundaries between conscious and unconscious systems. Mathematical modelling is playing an increasing role in this challenge.

To those of you new to the department, Mathematrix is the department's postgraduate society for minorities in Mathematics. We host weekly events in termtime to combat the loneliness experienced by minorities as well as to provide a safe space to discuss the issues we face. This term we have a jam-packed schedule with events every Monday.

David Sumpter's recent public lecture - Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex - is now on YouTube (along with over 70 others).