Would you like to make short films about your student life this term? We are looking for volunteers to make short films for social media. The content is up to you but given you are mathematicians a bit of maths wouldn't go amiss.
Seriously, 90 seconds or less, one film or several, filmed by you or by us filming you.
Mathematrix is back after a year long sabbatical. For those relatively new to the department, Mathematrix is the Mathematical Institute’s group for minorities in mathematics. We host various discussion groups and socials throughout the year to help tackle some of the issues faced by minorities in maths, and to bring people together in a welcoming and friendly environment. Our events are open to all Master's and DPhil Students, as well as Postdocs.
As part of our demystifying what we do, we have filmed a graduate supervision which is now on our YouTube Chanel. Thanks to Jason Lotay and Izar Alonso Lorenzo for agreeing to be filmed, and to Evan Nedyalkov for filming and editing. Also a big thanks to Jason for doing the captions which you can see if you watch on YouTube.
We hope you all enjoyed noughth week and are looking forward to the term ahead. To those of you who are new to the department, this is the weekly student bulletin which is emailed out to you every Friday (normally - whoops!). It includes lots of information about your course, what's going on in the department and wider University, and further top tips. Make sure not to miss it!
Several years ago our social media editor vowed never, ever to include photos of ducklings in the Bulletin. Not ever. Especially when he learnt that the most popular University Instagram post ever had featured, yes, ducklings. Honestly.
But they will still never appear on social media. And if they did, no self-respecting follower of Oxford Mathematics would like it
Photo: Evan Nedyalkov
Oxford Mathematician Jagoda Kaszowska-Mojsa has won the Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award for her MACROPRU project at the Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit in Warsaw, Poland.
The Erdős Primitive Set Conjecture has frustrated and fascinated mathematicians for decades. But earlier this year our own Jared Duker Lichtman announced he had proved it. Jared presented the conjecture as part of the SIAM Three Minute Thesis Competition recently and here it is. You can read more here
A popular social media conjecture is that mathematics consists of a series of clever puzzles presented by a crew of witty magicians.
To test this, we spent the marvellous month of May travelling the Andrew Wiles Building to find out what you all do, and why.
In Episode 1 meet Jacobus Smit, Maria Violaris and Sam Palmer. If you would like to talk about your maths, please email Dyrol.
Bernadette Stolz has been awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK and Ireland Rising Talent fellowship in the category of Mathematics and Computer Science.
The Rising Talents Programme is designed to provide flexible and practical financial support, alongside tools and wider support, for early career women scientists to pursue their research.