Archive

25th April 2026 The Water Jug Puzzle - Dr Colin Wright
Chess and Graph Theory - Dr Stewart Haslinger
28th March 2026 Tomography, Sudokus, the Beatles, and a Centuries-Old Problem in Number Theory - Dr Andreas Alpers
Be a Winner - Optimal Strategies in Games - Dr Rodi Herzberg
28th February 2026 Ada, Charles and Jacob: The First Computer Program & The Power of Recursion - Dr Nicolas Garron
Untangling the Secrets of Knot Theory: An Introduction - Dr Richard Hadjii
31st January 2026 A Brief Introduction to Computer Algebra - Dr Josh Davies
The Beauty of Chess - Dr Maksymilian J Roman
29th November 2025 Tangled Christmas Lights and Other Knotted Problems - Dr Graham Reeve
This Talk Will Self-Destruct in Sixty Minutes - Dr Sam Tickle
25th October 2025 Linear Programming - Dr David Lewis
Fitting Circles into Triangles - Dr Colin Wright
26th April 2025 The Algebraic Pentagon - Dr Colin Wright
Life, Death & Cellular Automata - Dr Ellis Rintoul
29th March 2025 Numbers Don't Lie - Or Do They? - Dr Andreas Alpers
Maths and Democracy - Prof Anna Pratoussevitch
22nd February 2025 Continued Fractions - Dr Alena Haddley
Reflections on a Laser Beam - Prof Rodi Herzberg
25th January 2025 Title TBC - Mr Samuel Canham
Title TBC - Dr Maksymilian J Roman
30th November 2024 Simple Additive Number Theory - Dr David Lewis
A Fool's Guide to Fool-proofing Proofs - Dr Sam Tickle
26th October 2024 White Dwarfs: Dark Matter Detectors in Space - Dr Juri Smirnov
Cryptography, Starting Where Others Finish - Dr Colin Wright
27th April 2024 Places, Limits and Being Short-Sighted - Dr Colin Wright
Is Time Travel Possible? - Dr Susha Parameswaran
23rd March 2024 Step into the Fourth Dimension - Ms Julia Munch
The Thin Line Between the Computationally Tractable and Intractable - Dr Andreas Alpers
24th February 2024 How a Recreational Maths Problem From 1747 Became Important for Modern Computing - Prof Rodi Herzberg
Ready, SET, Go! - Prof Anna Pratoussevitch
27th January 2024 Populations and Chaos - Dr Graham Reeve
Title TBC - Dr Colin Wright
25th November 2023 You Have the Right to Remain Unsure - Dr Sam Tickle
Are You One in a Million? - Mr Jorge Romero
28th October 2023 Cutting and Slicing in the Kitchen - Dr David Lewis
Time Travel Briefing #17 - Dr Colin Wright
22nd April 2023 The Mutilated Chessboard - Dr Colin Wright
The (Quasi)crystal Clear World of Penrose Patterns - Dr Ellis Rintoul
25th March 2023 How to Solve the Unsolvable - Dr Sam Tickle
Geometric Structures in Materials: What Does Nature Optimise? - Dr Andreas Alpers
25th February 2023 Coxeter Number Friezes - Dr Robin McLean
Triangle Plots Here, There and Everywhere - Professor Anna Pratoussevitch
28th January 2023 Who Would Be a Human Computer? - Dr Ian Thompson
Using Graphs When Modelling Real-Life Situations - Mrs Sue Harkness
26th November 2022 What Really Matters - Dr Oliver Fischer
Ding-dong Merrily on High - Ringing the Changes the Scientific Way - Professor Helen Aspinall
29th October 2022 Some Basics of the Finite Differencing Method Used in Weather Forecasting - Dr David Lewis
From Doodles to Dollars - Dr Colin Wright
23rd April 2022 Maths in a Twist - Dr Colin Wright
Prepare For Trouble! And Make It Dobble! - The Plane Simple Maths Behind Dobble - Dr Ellis Rintoul
26th March 2022 How Far The Moon? - Dr Colin Wright
Tomography, Sudokus, the Beatles, and a Centuries-Old Problem in Number Theory - Dr Andreas Alpers
26th February 2022 Be a Winner - Optimal Strategies in Games - Professor Rodi Herzberg
Gini's Tree Wishes: Random Forests and Why They Are (Very) Useful - Dr Sam Tickle
29th January 2022 Count Like An Egyptian - Dr Anna Pratoussevitch
Recurrence Relations and the Fibonacci Numbers - Alessio Kandiah & Postgraduate Outreach Group
27th November 2021 Science is Cool - Sarah Annand
Investing in Your Future - Rhys Wells
30th October 2021 Multiplication of Numbers in Different Bases to a High Degree of Precision - Dr David Lewis
An Elevator Pitch for Group Theory - Dr Colin Wright
24th April 2021 Zoom Maths Club - Numbers and Recurrent Relations - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
Zoom Maths Club - Using Mathematics to Put Humans on Mars (or not) - Dr Ian Thompson
27th March 2021 Zoom Maths Club - It *IS* Only Rocket Science! - Jorge Romero
27th February 2021 Zoom Maths Club - Reflections on a Laser Beam - Professor Rodi Herzberg
Zoom Maths Club - Spot the Difference - Dr Graham Reeve
30th January 2021 Zoom Maths Club - Of Dice and Gen(eration) of Random Numbers - Dr Sam Tickle
Zoom Maths Club - So Your Treatment Doesn't Work: How to Lie with Statistics - Dr Mary Fortune
28th November 2020 Zoom Maths Club - Ding-dong Merrily on High - Ringing the Changes the Scientific Way - Professor Helen Aspinall
Zoom Maths Club - ChrisMATHS Dragon Quiz - Mr Chris Marchant & Maths Outreach Team
31st October 2020 Zoom Maths Club - Areas of Polygons and Applications - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
Zoom Maths Club - The Weird and Wonderful World of the Infinite - Dr David Lewis
26th September 2020 Zoom Maths Club - Am I Positive? - Mr Niall Thompson
Zoom Maths Club - Pythagorean Tuning and Equal Temperament - Mr Damian Haigh
29th February 2020 Quantum Cryptography - Professor Kurt Langfeld
Extinction Recalculation - Predicting the Future using Branching Processes - Dr Sam Tickle
25th January 2020 A Mathematician's Journey into the Marvellous World of Microscopic Swimmers & Crawlers - Professor Rachel Bearon
Brussels Sprouts - Dr Joel Haddley
30th November 2019 Decision Trees - Sue Harkness
Counting Functions - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
26th October 2019 Complex Numbers for Fun and Profit - Dr Colin Wright
Binary Arithmetic - Counting in Ones - Dr Robin McLean
28th September 2019 Science is Cool - Sarah Annand
Fake Paradoxes - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
27th April 2019 Water Measuring, Skew Billiards and Euclid's Algorithm - Dr David Lewis
Cryptography, Starting Where Others Finish - Dr Colin Wright
30th March 2019 Fractals - Barry Grantham
Graph Theory - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
23rd February 2019 Fibonacci Representations - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
Paradoxes in Statistics and Probability - Dr Alexei Piunovskiy
26th January 2019 Playing with Positive Polynomials - Dr Robin McLean
Moebius: Beyond the Strip - Dr Joel Haddley
24th November 2018 What's in a Number? - Dr Ian Thompson
Untangle the Tangle - Dr Anna Pratoussevitch
27th October 2018 Taking Square Roots in a New Direction - Dr Colin Wright
Reading Between the Lies: Maths vs Fake News - Sam Tickle
29th September 2018 Continued Fractions - Dr Alena Haddley
Counting with Catalan - Professor Peter Giblin OBE
21st April 2018 Real Analysis via Puzzles - Dr Colin Wright
Linear Programming - Dr David Lewis
24th March 2018 Mathematics of Infinity - Dr Alexei Piunovskiy
TBC - Dr Daniel Colquitt
24th February 2018 Sequences - Dr Graham Reeve
Markov My Words - Sam Tickle
27th January 2018 Integer Calculus - Dr Joel Haddley
Finite Arithmetic and Latin Squares - Dr Robin McLean
25th November 2017 Ding-dong Merrily on High - Ringing the Changes the Scientific Way - Professor Helen Aspinall
Modelling Ferris Wheels - Sue Harkness
28th October 2017 Tackling an Impossible Problem - Dr Colin Wright
Invariants - Dr Oleg Karpenkov
30th September 2017 So Your Treatment Doesn't Work: How to Lie with Statistics - Dr Mary Fortune
Remainders, Consecutive Whole Numbers and Card Surprises - Professor Peter Giblin
22nd April 2017 The Logistic Equation and Chaos - David Lewis
TBC - Colin Wright
25th March 2017 Paradoxical Paradoxes - Daniel Colquitt
Continued Fractions - Barry Grantham
25th February 2017 The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff
Dungeon Master's Dice (and other probability problems) - Ian Thompson
28th January 2017 Magic Rectangles - Joel Haddley
Needle in the World Wide Haystack - Anna Pratoussevitch
26th November 2016 Modelling with Mathematics - Sue Harkness
Simple Additive Number Theory - David Lewis
29th October 2016 Necessary vs Sufficient - Colin Wright
How Symmetrical is Your Cuboid? - Robin McLean
1st October 2016 Cookies - Peter Giblin
A Hard Sell? - Sam Tickle
30th April 2016 Problems on Minimal Distances - Oleg Karpenkov
Paradoxes in Statistics and Probability - Alexei Piunovskiy
19th March 2016 TBC - Colin Wright
Coxeter Number Friezes - Robin McLean
27th February 2016 The Quickest Path to an A* - MATH291 students
Playing with Permutations - MATH291 students
30th January 2016 How to Make Perfect Toast and Become Infinitely Wealthy - Sam Tickle
Gray Coding - Joel Haddley
28th November 2015 Conjugate Numbers, Irrational Numbers and Pell's Equation - Peter Giblin
TBC - Colin Wright
31st October 2015 Who is the Greatest? Definition Problems in Mathematics and Elsewhere - Ian Thompson
Understanding functions through curve sketching - Mark Holland
19th September 2015 TBC - David Lewis
Ready, SET, Go! - Anna Pratoussevitch
25th April 2015 TBC - TBC
Strategies for Solitaire - David Bedford
28th March 2015 The (Five) Most Beautiful Minds - Sam Tickle
TBC - Colin Wright
28th February 2015 Iteration and Geometric Fractals - Alex Gheorghiu
Binary Arithmetic - Counting in Ones - Robin McLean
31st January 2015 Maths's Greatest Unsolved Puzzles - Katie Steckles
TBC - Elliott Tjia
29th November 2014 Completing Magic Squares - Peter Giblin
TBC - Colin Wright
25th October 2014 Water Measuring, Skew Billiards and Euclid's Algorithm - David Lewis
Fun with Finite Sets - Joel Haddley
20th September 2014 Coding Theory - Eloise Hattersley
Bayes' Theorem and Conditional Probability in the Real World - Mary Fortune
26th April 2014 TBC - Colin Wright
TBC - Rachel Bearon
29th March 2014 How to Make Natural Numbers - Steve Feller
It's About Time - Sam Tickle
22nd February 2014 Modelling Decay - Lonnie Readioff
Building Trees and Crossing Rivers - Search in Artificial Intelligence - Katie Atkinson
25th January 2014 From Coin Tossings to Combinations - Mark Holland
Modelling Ferris Wheels - Sue Harkness
30th November 2013 An Introduction to Vector Fields (or "How to Comb a Coconut") - Joel Haddley
Reasoning Under Uncertainty: An Introduction to Probability Theory - Ben Pace
26th October 2013 Counting - Peter Giblin
Maths with a Twist - Colin Wright
21st September 2013 The Logistic Equation and Chaos - David Lewis
Logic: The Age of Reasoning - Iain Carson
27th April 2013 Who Is Afraid Of Large Numbers? - Radu Tatar
Getting Lost in 2000 Dimensions - Colin Wright
23rd March 2013 Recurrence Relations - Yyanis Johnson-Llambias
The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff
23rd February 2013 Exploration of Curves - Robert Jones and Miriam Stevens
How to Multiply - Elliott Tjia
26th January 2013 A Plausible Approach Towards Statistical Process Control - Ken McKelvie
How to play Liar's Poker - David Lewis
24th November 2012 Reciprocal Prime Magic Squares - Joel Haddley
Sums of Squares - Peter Giblin
27th October 2012 Communication of Mathematics - Stephanie Burton
Complexity Theory, P vs NP, Graph 3 Colouring, and the Million Dollar Prize - Colin Wright
29th September 2012 To Infinity and Beyond - Adam Casey
Chessboards - Mary Fortune
31st March 2012 'QI' Maths and Geometric Means - Ken McKelvie
26th November 2011 Multiplication Tables - Peter Giblin
29th January 2011 Duads, Synthemes and Totals - Ian Porteous
27th November 2010 Exploration of digit patterns in outcomes of selected calculations - Ken McKelvie
Graphs, Trees and Brussels Sprouts - Peter Giblin
27th March 2010 Stepping Stones to Streetwise Statistics - Ken McKelvie
24th November 2007 Counting - Peter Giblin
22nd September 2007 Interesting Paper-Folding Diversions - Mary Fortune and Jon Tims
Matrices with MAPLE - David Lewis
24th February 2007 The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff
27th January 2007 Evaluation of new FunMaths Roadshow material - Ken McKelvie
28th October 2006 Universal Cycles - Peter Giblin, with assistance from Chris Marchant
29th April 2006 Matrices - Jon Tims
26th November 2005 Expected Values - Ken McKelvie
24th September 2005 Probability and The Law - Grahame Settle
26th February 2005 Ringing the Changes - Martin Bright
29th January 2005 Transforming Spaces, Transforming Shapes - Ken McKelvie
30th October 2004 Astounding Wonders of Indian Mathematics - Satish Malik
28th February 2004 Circular Motion and the Cardioid - Ian Porteous
31st January 2004 Stages in Problem Solving - What to do when stuck! - It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it... - Ken McKelvie
29th November 2003 Challenging Problems from Moscow III - Vladimir Zakalyukin
Some Mathematical Puzzles - David Lewis
1st November 2003 The Weird and Wonderful World of the Infinite - David Lewis
26th April 2003 Latin Squares and Groups - Shaine Bushell
Perennial Primes - Asoke Nandi
29th March 2003 Codes - Chris Sawer
An Introduction to Curve Sketching - Mark Holland
22nd February 2003 Magic Squares of Order 4 - Ian Porteous
Arithmetic and Geometric Progressions - Satish Malik
25th January 2003 The Modulus Function and some applications - David Lewis
Seeing is Believing - Ken McKelvie
23rd November 2002 Dividing Up Triangles - Peter Giblin
26th October 2002 Challenging Problems from Moscow II - Vladimir Zakalyukin
Advice on Hanging Pictures - Fred Bloore
27th April 2002 Towers of Hanoi - Özgür and Alana Selsil
23rd March 2002 Sequences and Series - Satish Malik
23rd February 2002 Sums of Distances - Peter Giblin
Traditional Japanese Geometry - John Rigby
26th January 2002 Complex Numbers and Quadratic & Cubic Forms - Ian Porteous
Years, Calendars and Continued Fractions - Chris Sawer
15th December 2001 From Maxima & Minima to Surface Shape - Peter Giblin
24th November 2001 Challenging Problems from Moscow I - Vladimir Zakalyukin
27th October 2001 Snowflakes and Other Fractals - Peter Giblin
29th September 2001 Knot Theory - Toby Hall
28th April 2001 Surreal Numbers - Mark Hollingworth
Constructions with Circles - Peter Giblin
24th March 2001 The Circle Method - Mark Hollingworth
10th March 2001 Quadrature - Mark Hollingworth
Rollers - Mark Hollingworth
24th February 2001 Circles Through Two or Three Points - Peter Giblin
Getting Close to the Square Root of Two - Victor Flynn
27th January 2001 Iteration and Spider Diagrams - Chris Sawer
Lines and Circles - Ian Porteous
25th November 2000 Tangent Circles - Peter Giblin
28th October 2000 Cutting a Region in half; and some Trigonometric Equations - Sasha Movchan and Peter Giblin
29th June 2000 Tangles, Fractions and Factors - Mark Hollingworth