[TMS] Week 4 – Dr Andjela Sarkovic

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Dear All,

 

This coming Monday, we are grateful to have Dr Andjela Sarkovic deliver a combinatorics/probability talk, Monday 17 February, 7pm at MR2, CMS. And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!

Title: Picking a spanning tree at random

Speaker: Dr Andjela Sarkovic
Abstract: A spanning tree of a graph is a tree that includes all the vertices of the graph and whose edges are a subset of the graph’s edges. In this talk, I will describe a couple of algorithms for selecting a spanning tree uniformly at random from the set of all spanning trees of a graph.
Date: Monday, 17 February
Time: 7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences
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Following positive vibes from the TMS Lent Talks, we are excited to announce a second series of TMS Peer Talks!
 
Event: TMS Undergraduate Peer Talks (Easter)
Details: Want to share about a mathematical idea that excites you? Want to hear about interesting mathematical perspectives from your peers? Enjoyed yourself in the Lent Peer Talks series? Do sign up to speak, or come along to attend the TMS Easter Peer Talks! We hope to organise an afternoon of accessible bite-sized nuggets. targeted at undergraduates, with minimal prerequisites.
• Talk durations range from 5 to 15 minutes, with brief QnAs and plenty of breaks and snacks.
• The main target audience (and level of assumed knowledge) is IB Maths, but students of all levels are very welcome to speak/attend.
• The intended flavour of talks is not to present original research (which will likely be inaccessible to the broad undergraduate audience), but to present a nice piece of maths (e.g. a fresh perspective on a concept taught in lectures, a toy example illustrating a powerful result, or a brief tour of an area of maths).
• The ultimate goal is for both speakers and audience to have lots of fun over sharing and discussing maths!

Date/Time: start of Easter (to be confirmed)
Location: MR2 (to be confirmed)

Registration link: https://forms.gle/VFQjXk1UXcsJ6qVc9 (register by 15 March)

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Jane Street is organising a candle-making event for Women+ students this Tuesday, 18 February, 6pm! Details as follows:

 
Event: Jane Street Candle-Making (Women+)
Date/Time: Tuesday, 18 February, 6pm
Location: Hilton Hotel, Cambridge
Description: Jane Street is delighted to be hosting a candle-making workshop for female-identifying students! Join us in creating your very own scent, and you’ll also get the chance to network with some Women+ Streeters, eat some delicious food, and grab some SWAG! Register here by today (Friday, February 14th). We will email you on Monday, February 17th, to let you know if you have secured a spot. We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration link: https://forms.gle/mH8bfX7eAsJWyKuB8 (register by today)

[TMS] TMS Annual Dinner Registration

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Dear All,
Register here for the TMS Annual Dinner!

The form requires proof of payment to be included with the submission. Please upload an image as proof of £25 bank transfer with your CRSid as the payment reference.

Do check that the form is still accepting responses before making payment.

TMS Bank Account Details
Name: Trinity Mathematical Society
Sort Code: 20-17-19
Account Number: 40091049

If you have any questions about payment, please contact our treasurer, Samuel (sl2067@cam.ac.uk).
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Event: TMS Annual Dinner

Date/Time: Sunday, 9 March evening
Location: Old Kitchens, Trinity College
Dress Code: Formal (jacket and tie, or equivalent; gowns not necessary)
Description: Join us for a monumental dinner celebrating a year’s worth of TMS events! On top of a mouth-watering array of food and drinks, there will also be an opera duet during the dinner, Libiamo ne’lieti calici, performed by Fredy Yip and Sarah Henderson! Many speakers will be attending too.

[TMS] Week 3 – Prof. Harvey Reall

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Dear All,

This coming Monday, we are grateful to have Professor Harvey Reall deliver a highly attractive talk about black holes, Monday 10 February, 7pm at MR2, CMS. And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!

Title: What happens if you fall into a black hole?

Speaker: Professor Harvey Reall
Abstract: The usual answer to this question is “you get turned into spaghetti”. But this only applies to the simplest kind of black hole – one which is not rotating. With rotation, the answer is less clear, with some calculations indicating that it might be possible to escape destruction inside the hole, at least according to classical General Relativity. Recent work suggests that quantum effects might play an important role in destroying observers who fall into certain types of black holes. I’ll attempt to give a simple explanation of all of this.
Date: Monday, 10 February
Time: 7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences

[TMS] G-Research Pub Quiz

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Dear All,

G-Research will be hosting a Pub Quiz in Cambridge on Tuesday evening, 25 February (Week 5); see below and the attached poster for details. Do sign up and come along!

Event: G-Research Pub Quiz
Date: Tuesday, 25 February
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Location: Cambridge; exact location to be confirmed after registration
Registration Link: https://qrco.de/beztqD

[TMS] Week 2 – Prof. Mike Tehranchi

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Dear All,

The coming Monday, we are delighted to have Professor Mike Tehranchi share about convexity at MR2, CMS! And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!

Title: Fun with convexity
Speaker: Professor Mike Tehranchi
Abstract: Convexity appears in a number of seemingly unrelated contexts, both in applications as well as in pure mathematics. This talk will survey some fun facts about convex functions and convex sets. Topics will include convex duality, convexity in economics, volumes of convex sets, and unsolved open problems.
Date: Monday, 3 February
Time: 7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences

[TMS] Week 1 – Prof. Tom Fisher

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Dear All,
For the first Monday of Lent, we are delighted to have Professor Tom Fisher kick off the term with a number theory talk at MR2, CMS! And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!
Title: Local-to-global principles in number theory
Speaker: Professor Tom Fisher
Abstract: One of the basic motivating problems in number theory is to decide whether a system of equations (usually polynomials) has any solutions in integers or rational numbers. Sometimes it is possible to show that such a Diophantine problem has no solutions by working modulo a prime, or a power of a prime, or by showing that there are no real solutions. In such cases we say that there is a local obstruction. In this talk I will give some examples and non-examples of situations where the absence of a local obstruction is sufficient to ensure that the original (global) problem is soluble.
Date: Monday, 27 January
Time: 7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences

[TMS] Week 0 – TMS Peer Talks, Jane Street MEGAGEM

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Welcome back to Lent! Hope the holiday has been restful and enjoyable for all.
This coming Wednesday, we have TMS Undergraduate Peer Talks:
Event: TMS Undergraduate Peer Talks
Talks: From Finite to Infinite Random Graphs (Ishan Nath), Special Relativity in Olympiad Geometry (Velian Velikov), Picturing Exact Sequences (Dylan Toh), Combinatorial Game Theory (Joël Huber), Convexity and Beer (Douglas Barnes), Squier’s Puzzle and Thompson’s Group (Henry Jaspars)
Details: A series of six 15-minute expository talks across various fields, delivered by fellow TMS peers, targeted at undergraduates, with minimal prerequisites. See attached for the schedule!
Date: Wednesday, 22 January
Time: 4-7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences
Hope to see many of you there!
In addition, our sponsor, Jane Street, is hosting MEGAGEM night, this Thursday, 23 January, for TMS members! Here’s the sign-up link; see the attached flyer for details.

[TMS] Week 7 – TMS Quiz! and EGM

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Dear All,

This coming Monday, there’ll be a TMS Quiz, 7pm at Burrell’s Field Common Room!

Event: TMS Quiz

Date: Monday, 25 November
Time: 7pm – 9+pm
Location: Burrell’s Field Common Room, Trinity College
Why you should come: For the joy and relaxation of quizzing with others! And there’ll be pizza and port/juice as usual~
Hope to see many of you there!
In addition, we will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting next Friday, 29 Nov, 1pm, at the CMS Core. The purpose of the EGM is for the TMS committee to discuss and confirm some minor technical amendments to our constitution, deemed necessary by the student union. All TMS members are eligible to come and vote on these amendments; do let me know if you wish to come.

[TMS] Week 6 – Dr Dominic Yeo

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This coming Monday, we are grateful to have Dr Dominic Yeo deliver a wonderfully probabilistic talk, 7pm at the CMS. And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!

Title: From random walks to permutations (and back again!)

Speaker: Dr Dominic Yeo
Abstract: For any procedure of shuffling a pack of cards, it is natural to ask how many shuffles are needed to get close to ‘perfect randomness’. We will explore this question and find some surprising connections with graphs, random walks, and a problem about orienting a collection of roundabouts!
Date: Monday, 18 November
Time: 7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences

As usual, some members of the committee will be walking over to CMS from Great Court at 6.40pm; feel free to join them!

[TMS] Week 5 – Dr Anthony Ashton (+ Lent Undergraduate Talks)

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This Monday, we are delighted to have a Dr Anthony Ashton share about oscillatory integrals at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre! And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!

Title: Oscillatory Integrals: from the concrete to the abstract
Speaker: Dr Anthony Ashton
Abstract: Depending on which mathematician you speak to, an “oscillatory integral” might be either: (a) an integral that is difficult to compute numerically; or (b) an abstract object defined in terms of a seemingly divergent integral that can be used to great effect in analysis. In this talk I’ll discuss one way of dealing with oscillatory integrals of the type (a) and look at how those ideas could be used to help understand those oscillatory integrals of type (b).
Date: Monday, 11 November
Time: 7pm
Location: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College

Some members of the committee will be walking over to Winstanley from Great Court at 6.50pm; feel free to join them!

In addition, this is early notice that we will be hosting a series of TMS Peer Talks at the start of Lent term! Details as follows:

Event: TMS Peer Talks
When: Start of Lent term
Speakers/Audience: You!
Location: CMS (to be confirmed)
Description: Want to share about a mathematical idea that excites you? Want to hear about interesting mathematical perspectives from your peers? Do sign up to speak, or come along to attend the TMS Peer Talks! We hope to organise an afternoon of accessible bite-sized nuggets.

 

• Talk durations range from 5 to 15 minutes, with brief QnAs and plenty of breaks and snacks.
• The main target audience (and level of assumed knowledge) is IB Maths, but students of all levels are very welcome to speak/attend.
• The intended flavour of talks is not to present original research (which will likely be inaccessible to the broad undergraduate audience), but to present a nice piece of maths (e.g. a fresh perspective on a concept taught in lectures, a toy example illustrating a powerful result, or a brief tour of an area of maths).
• The ultimate goal is for both speakers and audience to have lots of fun over sharing and discussing maths!

Speaker Registration: End of Michaelmas term, during which more details will also be released!

[TMS] Talk- Oscillatory Integrals- from the concrete to the abstract by Dr Anthony Ashton