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The Trinity Mathematical Society, or TMS, was founded in Trinity College, Cambridge in 1919 to 'promote the discussion of subjects of mathematical interest.' Today the TMS is one of the largest College societies and each year holds an extensive range of talks, together with social events including the famous annual cricket match against our rivals, the Adams Society of St John's.
All members of the University are welcome to come to TMS meetings. For information about joining the TMS, please see the membership page.
TMS News
 18/06/09: TMS reclaim winning form
After the shock defeat last year in the annual TMS v Adams Society cricket match, the TMS team have regained their pride by defeating the Adams Society by 37 runs.
Controversially, the TMS were put into bat first. This led to the bowling of an apple by the TMS President being against a TMS batsman. The apple went many metres wide, although the TMS President somehow found his bowling form in the Adams Soc innings, taking three wickets.
Final score
TMS: 153-6 (20 overs), Adams Soc: 116 (15.3 overs)
10/03/09: AGM Results
At the Annual General Meeting held today, Lee Zhuo Zhao was elected as the new TMS president. Also elected were Yufan Zhao as vice president, Jonathan Rees as secretary, Tom Lovering as junior treasurer and Chris Elliott was re-elected as constable.
13/01/09: Lent 2009 Talks
The details of the talks for the forthcoming term have now been finalised. Check the calendar for more. Please note the second talk of term, on 2 February, will take place in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre and not the Old Combination Room.
06/10/08: Michaelmas 2008 Events
The details of the events for the forthcoming term have now been finalised. Check the calendar for more.
05/06/08: Cricket Match Change of Date
Our annual cricket match against the Adam's Society will now be held on Monday the 16th of June, at 12:00 noon on St. John's Playing Fields. The match will run for only a few hours, so will finish in good time for those who are attending the Trinity May Ball to get changed and in a good place in the queue. Sorry for any inconvenience this change of date may cause.
Just a reminder, we are still short on players for this year's match. TMS members of any experience level at all are welcome, you needn't be an experienced cricketer (though if you are, we'd certainly like to hear from you!) If you're interested in having a go, e-mail our captain, Graham Sills at gs300@cam.ac.uk. (Previous 5...)
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Calendar
 | Coming up... | | Monday, 15th February | | Prof David Spiegelhalter, FRS | | Quantifying epistemic uncertainty: How ignorant are you? | | 'A Bayesian perspective allows probability theory to be used as a formalism for epistemic uncertainty: ie a measure of our confidence in a current or past state of the world about which we are ignorant (although someone else might know the truth). This allows probability to be used to quantify our uncertainty about a suspect's guilt, the image on the Turin shroud, the average effect of a medical treatment, or whether Jane Austen died before Napoleon. I will look at how these ideas have developed and are being used in practice, and how scoring rules can be used to assess how well you can quantify your doubt. A test will be given at the end, and a small prize awarded for the person who best knows what they don't know.' | | 8.30pm with port and orange juice from 8.15pm | | Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College | | more... |
Other upcoming events
01/03/10: Dr Jeremy Butterfield, The uses of infinity: Emergent phenomena in physics | | more... |
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