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*'''6:30''' Puzzles and cake | |||
*'''7:00''' Artiom Fiodorov - '''Probability theory as an extension of logic''' | |||
*'''7:30''' Olly Southwick - '''Why hot water can freeze faster than cold water''' | |||
*'''8:00''' Questions, dicussion, etc | |||
There will be plenty of free copies of the magazine available at the event, so come along and pick one up. | |||
The editors are also keen to meet anyone who would like to contribute to a future issue of Chalkdust. So if there's something you'd like to write about, come along and tell them! | The editors are also keen to meet anyone who would like to contribute to a future issue of Chalkdust. So if there's something you'd like to write about, come along and tell them! | ||
Revision as of 09:18, 14 October 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, 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: |
| 16 October 2015 at 18:30 |
| Hosted by MathSpace |
This talks event will be taken over by Chalkdust, a free maths magazine printed by students at UCL. There will be two talks by authors of articles in the second issue of Chalkdust:
There will be plenty of free copies of the magazine available at the event, so come along and pick one up. The editors are also keen to meet anyone who would like to contribute to a future issue of Chalkdust. So if there's something you'd like to write about, come along and tell them! |
Future events
All talks listed here are provisional. If you would like to give a talk or 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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13 November 2015 11 December 2015 |
30 October 2015
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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
18 September 2015
- Hyperbolic crochet workshop
04 September 2015
- MENACE (Matthew Scroggs)
- The Quest for General Articifial Intelligence (Recorded from CCC) (Luke Gotszling)
29 May 2015
15 May 2015
- How to Build a Propositional Logic Robot (Matthew Scroggs)
- Time Travel in General Relativity (Matthew Wright)
01 May 2015
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
