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

3 April 2015 at 18:30

Hosted by MathSpace

At this fortnight's event, we will be having a team competition based on the UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge. Either come along as a team of four, or just turn up and make a team. 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 team. The competition will start at around 7pm.

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
17 April 2015 How to build a propositional logic robot (Matthew Scroggs) Decision making under uncertainty (Cameron) 15 May 2015 (Olly) 12 June 2015 10 July 2015	03 April 2015 (Good Friday) Maths Challenge Team competition (Matthew Scroggs) 01 May 2015 29 May 2015 26 June 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

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) - 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