Group:MathSpace
| MathSpace | |
|---|---|
| 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
| Workshop: Programming Bots |
| 6 March 2015 at 18:30 |
| Hosted by MathSpace |
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
17 April 2015 15 May 2015 12 June 2015 |
06 March 2015 Building bots (Cameron)
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
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) - 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
