Sometimes it seems the whole year is one long flag day, but let's not be churlish, so next Tuesday is Pi day (3/14 depending on where you live or how you do calendars) and we are celebrating with, er, a couple of pies.
And look out for a special vegan/vegetarian week in the cafe in the first week of next term.
Musicians make most of their money from live performance these days, but recordings of live concerts can just make you long for the original studio versions. However, there are exceptions. Bruce is one of them. Here is a live version of Hungry Heart. If you want the original for comparison, here it is.
Tensor decomposition express a tensor as a linear combination of elementary tensors. They have applications in chemometrics, computer science, machine learning, psychometrics, and signal processing. Their uniqueness properties render them suitable for data analysis tasks in which the elementary tensors are the quantities of interest. However, in applications, the idealized mathematical model is corrupted by measurement errors. For a robust interpretation of the data, it is therefore imperative to quantify how sensitive these elementary tensors are to perturbations of the whole tensor. I will give an overview of recent results on the condition number of tensor decompositions, established with my collaborators C. Beltran, P. Breiding, and N. Dewaele.
Some of you have asked when the recent Public Lecture with our quasi artist-in-residence Conrad Shawcross, Martin Bridson and James Sparks will be online. Well, the answer is now. It's a fascinating discussion between three people who describe themselves as imposters straying in to each other's territory. They are anything but.
If you are thinking about implementing a project or initiative relating to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within an MPLS department (or across departments!), your project may be eligible for our MPLS ED&I Fund. This fund exists to enable staff and students to develop activities that support the Division’s wider ED&I aims.
Oxford DPhil mathematician Arkady Wey has won the Gold Medal for mathematical sciences at the 2023 STEM for BRITAIN poster competition held in the House of Commons on March 6th. Arkady was among 20 researchers, including Oxford Mathematician Oliver Bond, presenting their work to dozens of politicians and a panel of expert judges. Arkady’s poster focused on his research in to the mathematical modelling of the filtration of harmful contaminants from liquids and gases.