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STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
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Venue: House of Commons,, London, UK
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The theory of tilings in the plane touches on diverse areas of mathematics, physics and beyond. Aperiodic sets of tiles, such as the famous Penrose tiling that you see as you walk into the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, admit tilings of the plane without any translational symmetry. The Penrose tiling is made of two elementary shapes, or tiles, and mathematicians have long wondered about the existence of a single tile that could tile the plane aperiodically. Earlier this year such a shape was discovered: the hat! This hat turned out to be the first of a whole family, and is being celebrated across a two-day meeting in Oxford.
At his public talk, Chaim Goodman-Strauss (National Museum of Mathematics / University of Arkansas), one of the authors of this new work, will give an overview of the hat. This will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Craig Kaplan (University of Waterloo), Marjorie Senechal (Smith College) and Sir Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) as well as Chaim Goodman-Strauss. The discussion, about the impact of this new discovery and future directions, will be chaired by Henna Koivusalo (University of Bristol).
The first day of this event will contain talks and workshops aimed at the public, while the second will contain accessible talks aimed at the broadest possible mathematical audience. There will be artworks on display and activities to undertake for the duration of the event.
Videos of the talks can be seen on YouTube.
Venue: University of Oxford
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STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
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Venue: House of Commons, London, UK
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Vortices do amazing things. They dance, they tie themselves in knots, they challenge mathematicians to explain them.
Nineteenth century observations of the behaviour of smoke rings and fluid vortices inspired an ingenious but misconceived model of the atom, a flawed proposal that nonetheless gave birth to the modern theory of knots. The chain of ideas has now come full circle with recent theoretical and experimental results on the existence of knotted vortices.
After the lecture, Étienne Ghys will be presented with the first Clay Award for the Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge.
Venue: Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
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STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
Image: Back row: Professor Jon Keating, Dr Stephen Benn, Professor Nick Woodhouse, Stephen Metcalfe MP
Front row: Dr Bartosz Naskrecki (Bronze Award), Dr James Grogan (Gold Award), Miss Laura Wadkin (Silver Award)
CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program
Venue: House of Commons, London, UK
Home — Public Engagement
STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program
Venue: House of Commons, London, UK
Home — Public Engagement
STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program
Venue: House of Commons, London, UK
Home — Public Engagement
STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program
Venue: House of Commons, London, UK
Home — Public Engagement
STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program
Venue: House of Commons, London, UK
Home — Public Engagement
STEM for Britain is a poster competition and exhibition that aims to encourage, support and promote Britain’s early-stage and early-career research mathematicians who are an essential part of continuing progress in and development of UK research and R&D.
CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program
Venue: House of Commons, London, UK