Take a break at the end of term with some Mathematrix crafts and sweet treats! Supplies for watercolor and origami will be provided, and you are welcome to bring your own crafts.
Everyone is invited to celebrate International Women in Mathematics Day with a pizza lunch! We will be watching ‘Journeys of Women in Mathematics’, a powerful 20-minute film by the International Mathematical Union showcasing the experiences of women mathematicians worldwide. It follows three mathematicians from India, Cameroon, and Brazil from their home institutions to the (WM)² international meeting, showing their research and what it’s like to be part of the global maths community.
Arham Farid (MI EDI Officer) will join us to chat about current EDI initiatives and to hear our thoughts about ways EDI can improve in the Maths Institute.
Join us to discuss x+y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng.
A discussion on how race and ethnicity interact with the concept of merit in academia, based on sections from the book 'Misconceiving Merit' by Blair-Loy and Cech.
Come take a break and get to know other Mathematrix members over some crafts! All supplies and sweet treats provided.
Join us for the inaugural session of Mathematrix book club! Have you heard that office workplaces often have the thermostat set at a temperature that is too cold for women to work comfortably? This month we will be discussing the academic articles behind concepts that often come up in conversations about gender inequality in the workplace. The goal of book club is to develop an evidence-based understanding of diversity in mathematics and academia.
We’ll have an open discussion about the ways in which Mathematics is very euro-centric and how we can act, as students and educators, to change this.
Placing M-theory on a non-compact Calabi-Yau threefold allows us to construct low energy field theories in 5d with minimal supersymmetry, in a limit in which gravity is decoupled. We venture into this topic by introducing all the building blocks we hope to capture in a 5d SCFT. Next, from the geometric perspective we realise the 5d gauge theory data from the objects within the Calabi-Yau geometry, given by curves, divisors, rulings, and singularities. After seeing how the geometry captures all the possible field theory data, we illustrate how to build some simple 5d SCFTs by placing M-theory on toric Calabi-Yau threefolds.
Junior Strings is a seminar series where DPhil students present topics of common interest that do not necessarily overlap with their own research area. This is primarily aimed at PhD students and post-docs but everyone is welcome.