The committee for the next year will be:
President: Jonathan Lee
Vice President: Richard Freeland
Secretary: Mary Fortune
Junior Treasurer: Rachael Booth
Constable: Hiro Funakoshi
The TMS AGM will be happening on Thursday 15th March, at 7:00, in the Blue Boar Common Room. All Ordinary Members are invited to come along and vote for next years committee. Standing will be:
President: Jonathan Lee
Vice President: Richard Freeland
Secretary: Mary Fortune
Junior Treasurer: Rachael Booth, Jack Smith
Constable: Hiro Funakoshi
The returning Officer will be Joe Briggs.
Speaker: Prof Timothy Gowers (DPMMS)
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 12/3/2012 20:30, drinks from 20:15
Suppose you and a friend play a game where you each define a positive integer and the person whose number is higher wins. You’re allowed fifteen minutes to do it and your definition has to be self-contained. If you’ve been to this talk and your friend hasn’t, then you will win.
Speaker: Prof Geoffrey Grimmett (Stats Lab)
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 5/3/2012 20:30, drinks from 20:15
Since its discovery around 1899, the star-triangle (or Y-Δ) transformation has become an important tool in the theory of disordered physical systems. It turns out in addition to have an important connection to tilings of the plane.
The Trinity Mathematical Society is running our first symposium, from 10:00 to 7:00 on Sunday 4th March, in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre. We have a talk by Lord Rees, 3 other fellows and a number of PhD students, ranging across all areas of mathematical research. The event is free and open to all. There is no need to stay for the whole day – just drop in on talks you find interesting.
The timetable will be:
10:00 – 10:45 Prof Rees: From Planets to Universes
10:45 – 11:15 Lee Zhao: Branching-selection processes
11:15 – 11:45 Ben Barber: Compressions in extremal combinatorics
11:45 – 12:15 Kenny Wong: The Past, the Future and Elsewhere: a Geometric Excursion into Spacetime
12:15 – 13:15 -LUNCH-
13:15 – 14:00 Dr Forster: Ordinals
14:00 – 14:30 Will Sonnex: Dependant Type Theory
14:30 – 15:00 Rachel Newton: Local Reciprocity: a Mysterious Map from Number Theory
15:00 – 15:30 Peter Ford: Freezing
15:30 – 16:00 -BREAK-
16:00 – 16:45 Dr Neale: Adding integers
16:45 – 17:15 Alex Shannon: What’s the point?
17:15 – 17:45 Maurice Chiodo: Decision problems in group theory
17:45 – 18:15 Hiro Funakoshi: Blackhole Thermodynamics
18:15 – 19:00 Prof Korner: Back in the Stone Age
20:00 – Annual Dinner
(Made possible by the kind support of the Heilbronn Fund)
Speakers: Prof Imre Leader and Dr Thomas Forster (DPMMS)
Venue: MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Time: 28/2/2012 18:30
Is the axiom of choice a bit of a joke?
Why is Banach-Tarski not a paradox? Or is it after all as weird as you thought?
Come hear Imre Leader and Thomas Forster debate the right way to use – or not – the axiom of choice.
Non-constructive views and non-well-orderly behaviour tolerated.
(organised by Nik Sultana)
Speaker: Prof Gabriel Paternain (DPMMS)
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 20/2/2012 20:30, drinks from 20:15
We have known for a long time how to write down the equations of motion of a satellite that moves under the influence of the gravitational fields of the Earth and the Moon, but surprisingly, we still do not fully understand the long term behaviour of the satellite since we cannot explicitly solve the equations. At the end of the 19th century, Poincare noticed the presence of chaos in the system and kick-started the modern theory of dynamical systems. Recently a new type of geometry called contact geometry (the odd dimensional relative of symplectic geometry) has been proposed as a tool for understanding this old problem in celestial mechanics. In the talk I will try to explain what contact geometry is and why it is relevant for the 3-body problem.
Speaker: Prof John Lister (DAMTP)
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 6/2/2012 20:30, drinks from 20:15
Anyone awake at breakfast-time can observe that a stream of honey falling onto toast from a little height buckles and coils on impact. This talk will describe the physics and mathematics of a falling viscous thread. Prediction of the coiling frequency is surprisingly complex. And what happens when you move the toast?
All talks are to be held in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, and will begin at 8.30pm with port and orange juice from 8.15pm. Talks are for members only; non-members may join at the door. There are more details about membership at our website, along with links to previously held talks. Details of social events will be published at the first meeting.
Monday, 6th February: Prof John Lister (DAMPT):
Stretching, bending, twisting and coiling; building a fluid-mechanical sewing machine.
Anyone awake at breakfast-time can observe that a stream of honey falling onto toast from a little height buckles and coils on impact. This talk will describe the physics and mathematics of a falling viscous thread. Prediction of the coiling frequency is surprisingly complex. And what happens when you move the toast?
Monday, 20th February: Prof Gabriel Paternain (DPMMS):
Contact geometry in dynamics: the 3-body problem
We have known for a long time how to write down the equations of motion of a satellite that moves under the influence of the gravitational fields of the Earth and the Moon, but surprisingly, we still do not fully understand the long term behaviour of the satellite since we cannot explicitly solve the equations. At the end of the 19th century, Poincare noticed the presence of chaos in the system and kick-started the modern theory of dynamical systems. Recently a new type of geometry called contact geometry (the odd dimensional relative of symplectic geometry) has been proposed as a tool for understanding this old problem in celestial mechanics. In the talk I will try to explain what contact geometry is and why it is relevant for the 3-body problem.
Monday, 5th March: Prof Geoffrey Grimmett (Stats Lab):
Y-Δ
Since its discovery around 1899, the star-triangle (or Y-Δ) transformation has become an important tool in the theory of disordered physical systems. It turns out in addition to have an important connection to tilings of the plane.
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Time: 28/11/2011 20:30, drinks from 20:15
Come and celebrate Christmas with the TMS’s annual Call My Bluff event. Watch a Freshers’ Team take on a team drawn from the combined might of the rest of the university in a competition in which mathematical knowledge takes a second place to the ability to hold a good poker face. And if that is not reason enough to join us, there will be port
Freshers’ Team: Richard Freeland, Michael Rees and Hunter Spink.
Non-Freshers’ Team: Kathryn Atwell, Hiro Funakoshi and Jonathan Lee.
Hosted By: Mary Fortune.
