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Revision as of 09:31, 17 February 2015

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.

Talks: Prisoners, Morality and Chocolate Fountains
20 February 2015 at 18:30
Hosted by MathSpace
This event will host our next round of talks:
  • 18:30 - Cake and puzzles.
  • 19:00 - Morality Metrics on the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma (Axel Wagner)
Tyler Singer-Clark recently (June 2014) published a paper dealing with measuring morality of different strategies for the iterated prisoners dilemma. I will talk about my attempt to reproduce the results. This talk will focus on:
  • The prisoners dilemma
  • The iterated prisoners dilemma, IPD tournaments
  • IPD Morality metrics and how they relate to success in the game
  • 19:30 - The Fluid Dynamics of Chocolate fountains (Adam Townsend)
Delicious, obviously, but can you do a PhD in it? We’ll find out how to make predictions for chocolatey flows, and then work out (a) whether we can use other types of chocolate, (b) whether we could make a pioneering ketchup fountain, and (c) why chocolate fountains fall inwards, not directly downwards.
  • 20:00 - Discussion and social time (and use of chocolate fountain)

Future events

The talks listed here are provisional and subject to change.

06 March 2015

Non-talks event.

Past meetings

07 Feb 2015

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

24 Oct 2014

Proposed talks

If you would like to do a talk, please add it below or post on our mailing list:


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