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

Team Maths Challenge

24 July 2015 at 18:30

Hosted by MathSpace

MathSpace have been away for a while, but we are back this Friday. Even been to a pub quiz and wished that all the questions were about maths? Then this events is for you! We will be using resources from the UKMT Team Challenge to run a team competition. There will be three rounds: Group Round Each team is given 10 questions. 6 points for each one they can answer correctly in time. Crossnumber Each team splits into two parts. One part is given the down clues to a crossnumber, the other is given the across clues. Relay Teams divide into two parts to solve a four mathematical problems in 8 minutes. The solution to the first problem is required to solve the second problem and so on. There will be cake to keep everyone happy during the competition and there will be prizes for the winning teams in each round and a grand prize for the overall winning team. The competition will start at around 7pm. The cake will arrive at around 6:30pm.

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
07 August 2015 (Rafael) (Olly) 04 September 2015 Lightning Talks? 02 October 2015 30 October 2015	24 July 2015 21 August 2015 18 September 2015 16 October 2015

Proposed talks

Name	Topic	Approximate length	Other details
Cameron	Decision making under uncertainty	15-20 mins	Models for how we make decisions under uncertainty, starting from Utility theory
(Your Name Here)	(Title)	(Length)	(What you will talk about)

Past meetings

29 May 2015

• Connect 4 bot programming evening

15 May 2015

• How to Build a Propositional Logic Robot (Matthew Scroggs)
• Time Travel in General Relativity (Matthew Wright)

01 May 2015

• Election data workshop

03 April 2015

• UKMT Senior Team maths challenge (resources from regional final 2010/11)

20 March 2015

• Optimal Pac-Man (Matthew Scroggs)
• Games of Pursuit (Alex Bolton)
• Video Games Are Hard, But Some Are Harder Than Others (Linus Hamilton)

06 March 2015

• Blotto bot programming workshop.

20 Feb 2015

• Morality Metrics on the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma (Axel Wagner)
• The Fluid Dynamics of Chocolate fountains (Adam Townsend)

06 Feb 2015

• Project Euler maths and programming evening.

23 Jan 2015

• Folding Tube Maps (Matthew Scroggs)
• 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)

24 Oct 2014

• Flexagons (Matthew Scroggs) - Flexagon templates