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2023 Disability Lecture: Going beyond standards in technology and accessibility |
Dr Jessica Boland shares her experiences as a hard-of-hearing/deaf academic in science and technology, and her passion for improving accessibility in higher education. |
Jessica Boland, Tim Soutphommasane, Sarah Stephenson-Hunter |
14 Jun 2023 |
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Strachey Lecture: Symmetry and Similarity |
An introduction to algorithmic aspects of symmetry and similarity, ranging from the fundamental complexity theoretic "Graph Isomorphism Problem" to applications in optimisation and machine learning |
Martin Grohe |
16 Feb 2023 |
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6. The shape of data with Professor Heather Harrington |
Vicky Neale and Heather Harrington look at how mathematical techniques are used to identify patterns in cancer data, and discuss the creative thinking required of mathematicians. |
Vicky Neale, Heather Harrington |
23 Dec 2022 |
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5. Modelling cancer with Professor Helen Byrne |
Vicky Neale sits down with Helen Byrne to discuss her research around mathematical modelling for tumour prediction, and her advice for researchers who want to apply their work to cancer research. |
Vicky Neale, Helen Byrne |
23 Dec 2022 |
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4. Numbers don't tell the whole story with Professor Hannah Fry |
Vicky Neale talks to Hannah Fry about the difficulties of using probabilities in medical statistics, and how their own experiences have shaped their perspectives on the tough choices facing those making decisions on cancer care. |
Vicky Neale, Hannah Fry |
12 Dec 2022 |
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3. Medical imaging and radiotherapy with Tom Whyntie |
Vicky Neale sits down with Tom Whyntie to look at how mathematics is being used in medical imaging to optimise cancer care, and the ‘epic amounts of data’ behind the technology. |
Vicky Neale, Tom Whyntie |
12 Dec 2022 |
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2. Communicating the evidence with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter |
Vicky Neale and David Spiegelhalter explore the role of statisticians in communicating risk to the public, and how patients can be empowered to engage with clinicians when weighing up the benefits and risks of treatment. |
Vicky Neale, David Spiegelhalter |
12 Dec 2022 |
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1. The relevance of maths to cancer with Professor Philip Maini |
Vicky Neale talks to Philip Maini about how mathematical modelling can help researchers and doctors to improve the quality of life for people receiving cancer treatment. |
Vicky Neale, Philip Maini |
12 Dec 2022 |
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Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo |
Lionel Riou-Durand gives a talk on sampling methods. |
Lionel Riou-Durand |
31 Mar 2022 |
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Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us? |
Professor Samir Bhatt gives a talk on the mathematics underpinning infectious disease models. |
Samir Bhatt |
31 Mar 2022 |
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Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure |
This lecture is a visual treat as Ingrid Daubechies celebrates the joy, creativity and beauty of mathematics. |
Ingrid Daubechies |
19 Jul 2021 |
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I is a Strange Loop - written and performed by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould |
From the creative ensemble behind Complicité’s sensational A Disappearing Number, this two-hander unfolds to reveal an intriguing take on mortality, consciousness and artificial life. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Victoria Gould, Simon McBurney |
19 Jul 2021 |
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A primer on PAC-Bayesian learning *followed by* News from the PAC-Bayes frontline |
Benjamin Guedj, University College London, gives a OxCSML Seminar on 26th March 2021. |
Benjamin Guedj |
28 May 2021 |
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Approximate Bayesian computation with surrogate posteriors |
Julyan Arbel (Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes), gives an OxCSML Seminar on Friday 30th April 2021, for the Department of Statistics. |
Julyan Arbel |
21 May 2021 |
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Introduction to Bayesian inference for Differential Equation Models Using PINTS |
Ben Lambert, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, gives the Graduate Lecture on Thursday 6th May 2021, for the Department of Statistics. |
Ben Lambert |
21 May 2021 |
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On classification with small Bayes error and the max-margin classifier |
Professor Sara Van de Geer, ETH Zürich, gives the Distinguished Speaker Seminar on Thursday 29th April 2021 for the Department of Statistics. |
Sara Van de Geer |
21 May 2021 |
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Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal |
Science and maths are full of smart tools for explaining the world around us. Those tools can feel far removed from the way the rest of us understand that world. Can we reconcile the two approaches? Oxford Mathematician Anna Seigal provides some answers. |
Anna Seigal |
07 Dec 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty |
Mathematicians get up to all sorts. Geometers and Topologists in particular occupy a world of inconceivable shapes, concepts and dimensions. But how do you visualise such ideas? Sure, there's computer graphics, but what about over here, in the real world? |
Henry Segerman |
02 Nov 2020 |
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Mathematics Public Lecture: How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life - David Sumpter |
Mathematics has a lot going for it, but David Sumpter argues that it can not only provide you with endless YouTube recommendations, and even make you rich, but it can make you a better person. |
David Sumpter |
02 Nov 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Harford |
You have to sympathise with statistics. Misunderstood and misused when all they want to do is accumulate. What they need is a little human understanding. Tim Harford's Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture does just that. |
Tim Harford |
02 Nov 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football? - Joshua Bull |
Oxford Mathematician Josh Bull won the 2019-2020 Premier League Fantasy Football competition from nearly 8 million entrants. So how did he do it? Did he by any chance use mathematics? |
Joshua Bull |
02 Nov 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine |
The Grey Squirrel invasion explaining tumour cell proliferation? Alan Turing explaining football shirt patterns? The close relationship between slugs and the human heart? What is the common link? Mathematics of course. And Philip Maini. |
Philip Maini |
08 Jun 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Number Theory: Primitive Roots |
In this, the second online lecture we are making widely available, Ben Green introduces and delivers a short lecture on Primitive Roots, part of the Number Theory Lecture course for Second Year Undergraduates. |
Ben Green |
27 May 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Graph Theory: Shortest Paths |
Oxford has gone online for lockdown. So how do our student lectures look? Let Marc Lackenby show you as he looks at paths between vertices in a graph with a view to finding the shortest route between any two vertices. Works for your Satnav for example. |
Marc Lackenby |
27 May 2020 |
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Smartphones v COVID 19 |
Smartphones will help save lives. Smartphones' value is exaggerated. What is the reality? And, as ever, what is the Maths behind it all? Leading Network Scientist Renaud Lambiotte downloads the facts in this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. |
Renaud Lambiotte |
19 May 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2 |
Oxford Mathematician Peter Howell starts the second part of the 2nd year Differential Equations course which focuses on boundary problems. |
Peter Howell |
09 Apr 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd |
So much noise, so many opinions. Perhaps time for Occam's Razor to start its scientific shaving? |
Alan Champneys |
31 Mar 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the third year course on Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives from Sam Cohen where we hear that the role of derivatives is not to make money but to avoid being exploited. |
Sam Cohen |
02 Mar 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the second term introductory course on Linear Algebra from leading Oxford Mathematician James Maynard. |
James Maynard |
02 Mar 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics |
How do you make a star-shaped Cheerio? How do they make the glass on your smartphone screen so flat? And how can you make a vacuum filter that removes the most dust before it blocks? |
Ian Griffiths |
26 Feb 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Carlo Rovelli - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity |
Carlo Rovelli delivers The Roger Penrose Lecture on the Quantum structure of Spacetime. |
Carlo Rovelli |
16 Jan 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose? |
From the unfairness of voting on TV shows to how Santa gets down so many narrow chimneys. Chris Budd take a mathematical look at the traditions of Christmas. |
Chris Budd |
19 Dec 2019 |
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Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks |
Via guitars, clarinets and a musical saw to the noise reduction in a vaccum cleaner, Jon Chapman explains the role of waves in the sounds we hear and don't hear. |
Jon Chapman |
02 Dec 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Quantum Theory |
Our latest student lecture is the first in the Quantum Theory course for second year students. Fernando Alday reflects on the breakdown of the deterministic world and describes some of the experiments that defined the new Quantum Reality. |
Fernando Alday |
02 Dec 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture: Timothy Gowers - Productive generalization: one reason we will never run out of interesting mathematical questions |
In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Tim Gowers uses the principle of generalization to show how mathematics progresses in its relentless pursuit of problems. |
Tim Gowers, Hannah Fry |
27 Nov 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Newcastle Public Lecture: Vicky Neale - in Maths |
Mathematics has no place for emotion, its practitioners are positively unemotional. True? Well, no. In fact 10 out of 10 untrue. Mathematics and mathematicians are also on the emotional rollercoaster. Vicky Neale is one of them. |
Vicky Neale |
27 Nov 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 1 |
We continue with our series of Student Lectures with this first lecture in the 2nd year Course on Differential Equations. |
Philip Maini |
04 Nov 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics 1st year Student Lecture - Introductory Calculus |
In our latest student lecture we would like to give you a taste of the Oxford Mathematics Student experience as it begins in its very first week. |
Dan Ciubotaru |
04 Nov 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: David Sumpter - Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician? |
What do you need to win the Premier League? Money? Sure. Good players? Yup. A great manager? It helps. Mathematics? Really? 100%. |
David Sumpter |
04 Nov 2019 |
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John Barnden - Consciousness, metacausation and metadynamism |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
John Barnden |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Pedro Mediano - Moving beyond integration and differentiation in measures of neural dynamics |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Pedro Mediano |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Inês Hipólito - Generative models of the mind: neural connections and cognitive integration |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Inês Hipólito |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Gustav Bernroider - Neural sense relations and consciousness: a diagrammatic approach |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Gustav Bernroider |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Marc Ebner - A communication-based model of consciousness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Marc Ebner |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Diana Stanciu - An ESR model of consciousness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Diana Stanciu |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Aïda Elamrani - Inputs, outputs, and meta-models |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Aïda Elamrani |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Chetan Prakash - Structure Invention by Conscious Agents |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Chetan Prakash |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Quanlong Wang - Modelling consciousness divisions in ZW-calculus |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Quanlong Wang |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Pierre Baudot - Information cohomology and probabilistic topos for consciousness modeling: from elementary perception to machine learning |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Pierre Baudot |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Paul Baird - A model for perceptual states |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Paul Baird |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Mauro D’Ariano - Awareness: an operational theoretical approach |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Mauro D’Ariano |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Anita Mehta - Chasing memories |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Anita Mehta |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Ramón Guevara Erra - Statistical mechanics of consciousness: maximization of information content of neuronal networks is associated with conscious awareness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Ramón Guevara Erra |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Michael Silberstein - Quantum mechanics and the consistency of conscious experience |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Michael Silberstein |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Yakov Kremnitzer - Quantum collapse models and awareness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Yakov Kremnitzer |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Adrian Kent - Searching for Physical Models of the Evolution of Consciousness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Adrian Kent |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Ian Durham - Toward a formal model of free will |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Ian Durham |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Peter Lloyd - Automata-theoretic approach to modelling consciousness within mental monism |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Peter Lloyd |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Tim Palmer - Creativity and Consciousness: A Consequence of the Brain’s Extraordinary Energy Efficiency? |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Tim Palmer |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Jonathan Mason - Expected Float Entropy Minimisation: A Relationship Content Theory of Consciousness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Jonathan Mason |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Aaron Sloman - Why current AI and neuroscience fail to replicate or explain ancient forms of spatial reasoning and mathematical consciousness? |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Aaron Sloman |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Pedro Resende - Sketches of a mathematical theory of qualia |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Pedro Resende |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Peter Grindrod - Large scale simulations of information processing within the human cortex: what “inner life” occurs? |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Peter Grindrod |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Camilo Miguel Signorelli - Consciousness interaction, from experiments to a multi-layer model |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Camilo Miguel Signorelli |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Sean Tull - Generalised integrated information theories |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Sean Tull |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Stuart Hameroff - Anesthetic action on quantum terahertz oscillations in microtubules supports the Orch OR theory of consciousness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Stuart Hameroff |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Sir Roger Penrose - AI, Consciousness, Computation, and Physical Law |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Roger Penrose |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Xerxes Arsiwalla - Computing Meaning from Conceptual Structures in Integrated Information Theory |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Xerxes Arsiwalla |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Adam Barrett - Integrated information theory: a perspective on `weak’ and `strong’ versions |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Adam Barrett |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Johannes Kleiner - On the Mathematical Basis of Models of Consciousness |
One in a series of talks from the 2019 Models of Consciousness conference. |
Johannes Kleiner |
13 Oct 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 3. Applied Mathematics at Oxford |
Our Open Days are intended to give an insight in to Maths at Oxford, whether you are a potential applicant or are just curious. |
Dominic Vella |
10 Jul 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 2. Pure Mathematics at Oxford |
In this talk Vicky Neale gives a glimpse of the undergraduate Pure Maths courses through the lens of elliptic curves. |
Vicky Neale |
10 Jul 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 1. Introduction to Mathematics |
In this talk, Admissions Guru James Munro explains how we teach, how you can apply and what your Oxford mathematical life might be like. |
James Munro |
10 Jul 2019 |
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The future of policy-mathematics |
Panel discussion and presentations on the future of policy mathematics. With Presentations by Maurice Chiodo and Zora Kovacic. With a response by Jerry Ravetz. Chaired by Andrea Saltelli. |
Maurice Chiodo, Zora Kovacic, Jerry Ravetz, Andrea Saltelli. |
08 Jul 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: John Bush - Walking on water: from biolocomotion to quantum foundations |
In this Public Lecture, which contains more technical content than our norm, John Bush presents seemingly disparate topics which are in fact united by a common theme and underlaid by a common mathematical framework. |
John Bush |
28 Jun 2019 |
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Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions |
6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. |
Matthew Landrus |
12 Jun 2019 |
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Parallel lines down the centuries |
For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. |
Christopher Hollings |
12 Jun 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Creativity Code: how AI is learning to write, paint and think |
In this fascinating and provocative lecture, Marcus du Sautoy both tests our ability to distinguish between human and machine creativity, and suggests that our creativity may even benefit from that of the machines. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
03 Jun 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Graham Farmelo - The Universe Speaks in Numbers |
An old-fashioned tale of tale of romance and estrangement, of hope and despair. |
Graham Farmelo |
21 May 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture: Analysis III - Integration |
The third in our popular series of filmed student lectures takes us to Integration. This is the opening lecture in the 1st Year course. |
Ben Green |
09 May 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marc Lackenby - Knotty Problems |
Knots are a familiar part of everyday life, for example tying your tie or doing up your shoe laces. They play a role in numerous physical and biological phenomena, such as the untangling of DNA when it replicates. |
Marc Lackenby |
20 Mar 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics First Year Student Tutorial on Dynamics |
The Oxford Mathematics educational experience is a journey, a journey like any other educational experience. |
Ian Hewitt, Kate Adams, Farid Manzoor |
22 Feb 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Undergraduate Lecture James Sparks - Dynamics |
For the first time ever, Oxford Mathematics has live streamed a student lecture. It took 800 years but now you can see what it is really like. We hope you find it familiar and intriguing and challenging. |
James Sparks |
15 Feb 2019 |
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James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all |
Prime Numbers are fascinating, crucial and ubiquitous. The trouble is, we don't know that much about them. James Maynard, one of the leading researchers in the field explains all (at least as far as he can). |
James Maynard |
15 Feb 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Hooke Lecture - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere |
In some of the world’s rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses direction and flows upstream. |
Michael Berry |
28 Jan 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Student Lectures: An Introduction to Complex Numbers - Vicky Neale |
Much is written about life as an undergraduate at Oxford but what is it really like? |
Vicky Neale |
22 Jan 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Num8er My5teries |
With topics ranging from prime numbers to the lottery, from lemmings to bending balls like Beckham, Professor Marcus du Sautoy provides an entertaining and, perhaps, unexpected approach to explain how mathematics can be used to predict the future. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
14 Jan 2019 |
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Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry - Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures |
In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry reveals his latest research, a veritable chain reaction of universes, which he says has been backed by evidence of events that took place before the Big Bang. |
Roger Penrose, Hannah Fry |
06 Nov 2018 |
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Oxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics |
In this lecture Roger Penrose uses M.C Escher's work to illustrate and explain important mathematical ideas and their connections to the visual arts. |
Roger Penrose |
01 Oct 2018 |
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John Ball in conversation with Alain Goriely |
John Ball is retiring as Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Oxford oldest Scientific Chair. In this interview he charts the journey of the Applied Mathematician.as the subject has developed over the last 50 years. |
John Ball, Alain Goriely |
27 Jul 2018 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Richard James - Atomistically inspired origami |
The World population is growing at about 80 million per year. As time goes by, there is necessarily less space per person. Perhaps this is why the scientific community seems to be obsessed with folding things. |
Richard James |
06 Jul 2018 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun - Michael Atiyah |
Archimedes, who famously jumped out of his bath shouting "Eureka", also 'invented' the number pi. Euler invented e and had fun with his formula e^(2 pi i) = 1. The world is full of important numbers waiting to be invented. Why not have a go? |
Michael Atiyah |
23 May 2018 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain?' - Alain Goriely |
The human brain is the object of the ultimate intellectual egocentrism. It is also a source of endless scientific problems and an organ of such complexity that it is not clear that a mathematical approach is even possible, despite many attempts. |
Alain Goriely |
16 Mar 2018 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Euler’s pioneering equation: "the most beautiful theorem in mathematics" - Robin Wilson |
Euler’s equation, the ‘most beautiful equation in mathematics’, startlingly connects the five most important constants in the subject: 1, 0, π, e and i. Central to both mathematics and physics. So what is this equation – and why is it pioneering? |
Robin Wilson |
07 Mar 2018 |
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Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos |
In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the story of mathematical puzzles from the middle ages to modern day. |
Alex Bellos |
13 Dec 2017 |
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Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale |
Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia and yet mathematicians' difficulty with answering simple questions about them reveals their depth and subtlety. |
Vicky Neale |
24 Oct 2017 |
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Dr Tom Crawford, mathematician and presenter (St John's College, 2008) |
Dr Tom Crawford, also known as the Naked Mathematician, shares his love of Maths and describes how he is dispelling stereotypes to explain Maths to teenagers. |
Tom Crawford |
01 Jun 2017 |
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The Sound of Symmetry - Marcus du Sautoy |
Symmetry has played a role both for composers and in the creation of musical instruments. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
24 May 2017 |
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The Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify? - Tim Palmer |
Tim Palmer discusses Ed Lorenz the man and his work, and compares and contrasts the meaning of the 'Butterfly Effect' as most people understand it today, and as Lorenz himself intended it to mean. |
Tim Palmer |
18 May 2017 |
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Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows |
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK |
Tom McLeish |
27 Apr 2017 |