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)