GSA SPARK 2025 is starting next week!
This is a 21-day challenge from 24th November until 14th December, packed with exciting puzzles and problems inspired by the classic advent calendar. Each day, you’ll tackle new challenges designed to test your maths, coding, and problem solving skills.
This challenge is for:
Despite being Week 5 of term, it's never too late to get involved in student-led societies! The Invariants still have lots of events coming up this side of Christmas, including a talk by Giulia Celora on The Mathematics of Biological Self-Organisation, a hot chocolate social, and their Integration Bee!
More details on all events can be found on their website: https://www.invariants.org.uk/events
Week 5's session, How to Make the Most of your Tutorials and Lectures, will look at how to prepare effectively, make lectures more productive, and understand what tutors expect from you during tutorials. You’ll leave with practical tips to help you study more confidently and make your learning time count.
This session is likely to be most relevant for first-year undergraduates, but all are welcome.
Graduate students support the running of the department in many ways: from presenting at Open Days and outreach events to running social events or seminars for Research Groups or for the wider department. We would like to recognise this contribution by making an award/a small number of awards annually.
You may be aware that best-selling science writer Simon Singh, author of books such as “Fermat’s Last Theorem”, visited the Mathematical Institute earlier this month with his colleague, Junaid Mubeen. As well as giving some insights into what constitutes good practice in writing, outreach and education, they gave a brief outline of their Parallel Programme. Parallel currently tutors 750 talented maths students every week from Year 7 through to Year 11.