Next Time in Maths Club: 27th April 2024

Title TBC: Dr Susha Parameswaran
Topic TBC

Title TBC: Dr Colin Wright
Topic TBC

Archive

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