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Come along and learn how to use R to make infographics showing trends in the data. Or look for trend in the polls and try to predict next week's results. | |||
As a starting point, we have gathered links for data from the 2010 election and polls data in the run up to next week. You can find that data [[Group:MathSpace/2015 Election Data|here]]. | |||
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Revision as of 09:02, 28 April 2015
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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, 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
| Election Data Analysis Workshop |
| 1 May 2015 at 18:30 |
| Hosted by MathSpace |
| At this fortnight's event, we will be analysing election data.
Come along and learn how to use R to make infographics showing trends in the data. Or look for trend in the polls and try to predict next week's results. As a starting point, we have gathered links for data from the 2010 election and polls data in the run up to next week. You can find that data here. |
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 |
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15 May 2015
12 June 2015 10 July 2015 07 August 2015 |
01 May 2015 Election data analysis. 29 May 2015 UKMT Team Maths Challenge. 26 June 2015 24 July 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 |
| (Your Name Here) | (Title) | (Length) | (What you will talk about) |
Past meetings
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
