Maths Club is now finished for 2023-24. We expect to return in September or October 2024 with monthly meetings on the University campus. Provisional dates will be posted here when they are known.
| 26th April 2025 | | Life, Death & Cellular Automata - Dr Ellis Rintoul The Algebraic Pentagon - Dr Colin Wright |
| 29th March 2025 | | Numbers Don't Lie - Or Do They? - Dr Andreas Alpers Maths and Democracy - Prof Anna Pratoussevitch |
| 22nd February 2025 | | Reflections on a Laser Beam - Prof Rodi Herzberg Continued Fractions - Dr Alena Haddley |
| 25th January 2025 | | Title TBC - Dr Maksymilian J Roman Title TBC - Mr Samuel Canham |
| 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 | | Is Time Travel Possible? - Dr Susha Parameswaran Places, Limits and Being Short-Sighted - Dr Colin Wright |
| 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 | | Are You One in a Million? - Mr Jorge Romero You Have the Right to Remain Unsure - Dr Sam Tickle |
| 28th October 2023 | | Cutting and Slicing in the Kitchen - Dr David Lewis Time Travel Briefing #17 - Dr Colin Wright |
| 22nd April 2023 | | The (Quasi)crystal Clear World of Penrose Patterns - Dr Ellis Rintoul The Mutilated Chessboard - Dr Colin Wright |
| 25th March 2023 | | Geometric Structures in Materials: What Does Nature Optimise? - Dr Andreas Alpers How to Solve the Unsolvable - Dr Sam Tickle |
| 25th February 2023 | | Coxeter Number Friezes - Dr Robin McLean Triangle Plots Here, There and Everywhere - Professor Anna Pratoussevitch |
| 28th January 2023 | | Using Graphs When Modelling Real-Life Situations - Mrs Sue Harkness Who Would Be a Human Computer? - Dr Ian Thompson |
| 26th November 2022 | | Ding-dong Merrily on High - Ringing the Changes the Scientific Way - Professor Helen Aspinall What Really Matters - Dr Oliver Fischer |
| 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 | | Prepare For Trouble! And Make It Dobble! - The Plane Simple Maths Behind Dobble - Dr Ellis Rintoul Maths in a Twist - Dr Colin Wright |
| 26th March 2022 | | Tomography, Sudokus, the Beatles, and a Centuries-Old Problem in Number Theory - Dr Andreas Alpers How Far The Moon? - Dr Colin Wright |
| 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 | | Recurrence Relations and the Fibonacci Numbers - Alessio Kandiah & Postgraduate Outreach Group Count Like An Egyptian - Dr Anna Pratoussevitch |
| 27th November 2021 | | Investing in Your Future - Rhys Wells Science is Cool - Sarah Annand |
| 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 - Using Mathematics to Put Humans on Mars (or not) - Dr Ian Thompson Zoom Maths Club - Numbers and Recurrent Relations - Dr Oleg Karpenkov |
| 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 - So Your Treatment Doesn't Work: How to Lie with Statistics - Dr Mary Fortune Zoom Maths Club - Of Dice and Gen(eration) of Random Numbers - Dr Sam Tickle |
| 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 - Pythagorean Tuning and Equal Temperament - Mr Damian Haigh Zoom Maths Club - Am I Positive? - Mr Niall Thompson |
| 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 | | Counting Functions - Professor Peter Giblin OBE Decision Trees - Sue Harkness |
| 26th October 2019 | | Binary Arithmetic - Counting in Ones - Dr Robin McLean Complex Numbers for Fun and Profit - Dr Colin Wright |
| 28th September 2019 | | Fake Paradoxes - Dr Oleg Karpenkov Science is Cool - Sarah Annand |
| 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 | | Graph Theory - Dr Oleg Karpenkov Fractals - Barry Grantham |
| 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 | | Untangle the Tangle - Dr Anna Pratoussevitch What's in a Number? - Dr Ian Thompson |
| 27th October 2018 | | Reading Between the Lies: Maths vs Fake News - Sam Tickle Taking Square Roots in a New Direction - Dr Colin Wright |
| 29th September 2018 | | Counting with Catalan - Professor Peter Giblin OBE Continued Fractions - Dr Alena Haddley |
| 21st April 2018 | | Linear Programming - Dr David Lewis Real Analysis via Puzzles - Dr Colin Wright |
| 24th March 2018 | | TBC - Dr Daniel Colquitt Mathematics of Infinity - Dr Alexei Piunovskiy |
| 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 | | Invariants - Dr Oleg Karpenkov Tackling an Impossible Problem - Dr Colin Wright |
| 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 | | Dungeon Master's Dice (and other probability problems) - Ian Thompson The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff |
| 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 | | How Symmetrical is Your Cuboid? - Robin McLean Necessary vs Sufficient - Colin Wright |
| 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 | | Coxeter Number Friezes - Robin McLean |
| 27th February 2016 | | The Quickest Path to an A* - MATH291 students Playing with Permutations - MATH291 students |
| 30th January 2016 | | Gray Coding - Joel Haddley How to Make Perfect Toast and Become Infinitely Wealthy - Sam Tickle |
| 28th November 2015 | | Conjugate Numbers, Irrational Numbers and Pell's Equation - Peter Giblin |
| 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 | | Ready, SET, Go! - Anna Pratoussevitch |
| 25th April 2015 | | Strategies for Solitaire - David Bedford TBC - TBC |
| 28th March 2015 | | The (Five) Most Beautiful Minds - Sam Tickle |
| 28th February 2015 | | Binary Arithmetic - Counting in Ones - Robin McLean Iteration and Geometric Fractals - Alex Gheorghiu |
| 31st January 2015 | | Maths's Greatest Unsolved Puzzles - Katie Steckles |
| 29th November 2014 | | Completing Magic Squares - Peter Giblin |
| 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 - Rachel Bearon TBC - Colin Wright |
| 29th March 2014 | | How to Make Natural Numbers - Steve Feller It's About Time - Sam Tickle |
| 22nd February 2014 | | Building Trees and Crossing Rivers - Search in Artificial Intelligence - Katie Atkinson Modelling Decay - Lonnie Readioff |
| 25th January 2014 | | Modelling Ferris Wheels - Sue Harkness From Coin Tossings to Combinations - Mark Holland |
| 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 | | Getting Lost in 2000 Dimensions - Colin Wright Who Is Afraid Of Large Numbers? - Radu Tatar |
| 23rd March 2013 | | Recurrence Relations - Yyanis Johnson-Llambias The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg and other Networks - Lonnie Readioff |
| 23rd February 2013 | | How to Multiply - Elliott Tjia Exploration of Curves - Robert Jones and Miriam Stevens |
| 26th January 2013 | | How to play Liar's Poker - David Lewis A Plausible Approach Towards Statistical Process Control - Ken McKelvie |
| 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 | | Graphs, Trees and Brussels Sprouts - Peter Giblin Exploration of digit patterns in outcomes of selected calculations
- Ken McKelvie |
| 27th March 2010 | | Stepping Stones to Streetwise Statistics - Ken McKelvie |
| 24th November 2007 | | Counting - Peter Giblin |
| 22nd September 2007 | | Matrices with MAPLE - David Lewis Interesting Paper-Folding Diversions - Mary Fortune and Jon Tims |
| 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 | | Some Mathematical Puzzles - David Lewis Challenging Problems from Moscow III - Vladimir Zakalyukin |
| 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 | | An Introduction to Curve Sketching - Mark Holland Codes - Chris Sawer |
| 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 | | Advice on Hanging Pictures - Fred Bloore Challenging Problems from Moscow II - Vladimir Zakalyukin |
| 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 | | Constructions with Circles - Peter Giblin Surreal Numbers - Mark Hollingworth |
| 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 |