Group:MathSpace

MathSpace
When	Alternate Fridays, from 18:30
What	Talks and workshops on mathematical subjects
Members
Camzzz Elaranodiscoteca MScroggs Wyan

The London MathSpace is a group which meets every other Friday to discuss mathematics. We host talks, problem-solving and programming events.

All our events are held at London Hackspace, 447 Hackney Road.

If you would like to do a talk or have any ideas for an event, please say so here or on our mailing list.

Next Event

Talks: Prisoners, Morality and Chocolate Fountains

20 February 2015 at 18:30

Hosted by MathSpace

This event will host our next round of talks: 18:30 - Cake and puzzles. 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)

Future events

All talks listed here are provisional. If you would like to give a talk of suggest a non-talks event, please add it to a date here. For questions and discussion, use our mailing list.

Talks	Non-Talks
20 March 2015 How to build a propositional logic robot (Matthew Scroggs) Decision making under uncertainty (Cameron) 17 April 2015 15 May 2015 12 June 2015	06 March 2015 Building bots (Cameron) 03 April 2015 No event? (Good Friday) 01 May 2015 Maths Challenge Team competition (Matthew Scroggs) 29 May 2015

Proposed talks

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
Linus Hamilton	Video games are hard	20-30 mins	Computational complexity theory, applied to important problems such as Candy Crush, the Riemann Hypothesis, and custom Braid levels
(Your Name Here)	(Title)	(Length)	(What you will talk about)

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