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* 18:30 - Cake and puzzles. | |||
Adam Townsend | * 19:00 - '''Morality Metrics on the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma (Axel Wagner)''' | ||
::Tyler Singer-Clark recently (June 2014) published a paper dealing with measuring morality of different strategies for the iterated prisoners dilemma. I will talk about my attempt to reproduce the results. This talk will focus on: | |||
::* The prisoners dilemma | |||
::* The iterated prisoners dilemma, IPD tournaments | |||
::* IPD Morality metrics and how they relate to success in the game | |||
* 19:30 - '''The Fluid Dynamics of Chocolate fountains (Adam Townsend)''' | |||
::Delicious, obviously, but can you do a PhD in it? We’ll find out how to make predictions for chocolatey flows, and then work out (a) whether we can use other types of chocolate, (b) whether we could make a pioneering ketchup fountain, and (c) why chocolate fountains fall inwards, not directly downwards. | |||
* 20:00 - Discussion and social time (and use of chocolate fountain) | |||
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Revision as of 09:29, 17 February 2015
| MathSpace | |
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| When | Alternate Fridays, from 18:30 |
| What | Talks and workshops on mathematical subjects |
| Members | |
The London MathSpace is a group which meets every other Friday to discuss mathematics. We host talks followed by questions and discussion.
If you would like to do a talk or have any ideas for an event, please say so here or on our mailing list.
| Talks: Prisoners, Morality and Chocolate Fountains |
| 20 February 2015 at 18:30 |
| Hosted by MathSpace |
* 18:30 - Cake and puzzles.
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Future events
The talks listed here are provisional and subject to change.
06 March 2015
Non-talks event.
Past meetings
07 Feb 2015
- Project Euler maths and programming evening.
23 Jan 2015
- Folding Tube Maps (Matthew Scroggs) - write up
- AI and Bots in Game Design (Martin Clarke) slides
- Regime detection in multivariate stochastic processes (Alex Bolton)
09 Jan 2015
- Voting Theory (Alex Bolton) - slides
05 Dec 2014
- Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (Axel Wagner) - slides
21 Nov 2014
- Braiding (Matthew Scroggs) - write up
24 Oct 2014
- Flexagons (Matthew Scroggs) - Flexagon templates
Proposed talks
If you would like to do a talk, please add it below or post on our mailing list:
| Name | Topic | Approximate length | Other details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Scroggs | How to build a propositional logic robot | 20-30 mins | How I built @mathslogicbot and some of the maths behind it. |
| Cameron | Decision making under uncertainty | 15-20 mins | Models for how we make decisions under uncertainty, starting from Utility theory |
