Future Events

2nd Annual Scottish Combinatorics Meeting

The second annual Scottish Combinatorics Meeting will be held in the School on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th April.  Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of this free event; the official deadline for registration has now passed, but if you would still like to attend please email Dr Kitty Meeks. 

For further information click here.

This event is funded jointly by the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust, the British Combinatorial Committee, the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

SofTMech launch

The launch event for the new SofTMech Centre will be held in the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel on Thursday 21st April.

IDEAS: The initiative for dialogue between clinicians and modellers

Registration is now open for interested modellers & clinicians to join the dialogue on Friday 22nd April. To register and apply for travel support, please e-mail poems-admin@sheffield.ac.uk.

For further information click here. 

IDEAS events are funded by POEMS  and SofTMech (website coming soon). 

2016 UK National Conference on Geophysical, Astrophysical and Industrial Magnetohydrodynamics

Over the past three decades, the annual UK Magnetohydrodynamics (UK MHD) meeting has become the leading national gathering for Geophysical, Astrophysical and Laboratory MHD. The 2016 meeting will be held at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Glasgow on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th May. The meeting will provide an ideal opportunituy to discuss and disseminate MHD and Fluid Dynamics research work carried out in the UK and beyond.

For further information click here. 

LMS-CMI Research School: Developments in Contact and Symplectic Topology

This LMS-CMI Research School will take place from Monday 20th to Friday 24th June and give students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key aspects of contact topology in three dimensions and to the new frontier of high-dimensional contact topology. This is a unique opportunity for students and early-career researchers to get a hands-on guided tour of an exciting and fast-developing area of research from a world-leading team of experts.

For further information click here. 

Street Maths

Get tied-up with topology, bamboozled with braids and mind-boggled with messy mathematics! Look out for Street Maths taking mathematical street-theatre to a new plane with fun experiments and interactive demonstrations at the Glasgow Science Festival in June. Andrew Wilson's Street Maths has been accepted into the programme and is being funded by a Public Engagement Bursary from the Wellcome Trust.

Past Events

Talking Numbers – MACSOC

On Thursday 3rd March, MacSoc held an evening of talks in the Common Room of the Mathematics Building. The talks were given by members of the faculty, speaking about their field and their research. There were six speakers; Prof Tara Brendle, Dr Vaibhav Gadre, Prof Marian Scott, Dr Peter Stewart, Prof Ian Strachan and PhD student Guowen Huang. One of the organisers, Scott Dallas, said of the event:

“The talks were great and the event ran really smoothly. The feedback collected from attendees was very positive; they really enjoyed the diverse amount of mathematical and statistical content.

MacSoc would like to give a big thank you to all of the speakers who volunteered their time to take part and also to Dr Stephen Watson for his support. The hope is for us to continue facilitating events like this in the years to come.”

Popular lecture "Mathematical sketches" by Dr N.N. Andreev

The lecture, aimed at secondary school children interested in mathematics, took place in the School of Mathematics and Statistics on Sunday 20th March. The mathematical essence of various phenomena from the outside world was discussed and uncovered in this interactive lecture. This ranges from major historical achievements to simple things we meet in everyday life. Some specific questions included aspects of how GPS navigators work, how trains turn, what is the ratio of the sides of an A4 sheet of paper, how to find the distance to the horizon, and much more. Some interesting mathematical questions were discussed too.

First published: 30 March 2016

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