This years Trinity Mathematical Society Symposium is running from 10:00 to 17:45 on Sunday 24th February, in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre. We have talks by fellows and PhD students, ranging across all areas of mathematical research. The event is free and open to all; no particular specialist knowledge is assumed. 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. Timothy Gowers: Some Open Problems in Additive Combinatorics
10:45 – 11:15       Kenny Wong: Even physicists use group theory!
11:15 – 11:45       Hiro Funakoshi: Simulating Quantum Mechanics on Computers
11:45 – 12:15       Freddie Manners: Finitary and Infinitary Mathematics, Regularity and the Crossover Between Combinatorics and Analysis

12:15 – 13:15       -LUNCH-
13:15 – 14:00      Dr. Marj Batchelor: Making it Count: Looking Forward to a Life in Mathematics
14:00 – 14:30      Kirsty Wan: Tails of our ancestors
14:30 – 15:00     Tom Gillespie: Proof by Picture
15:00 – 15:30      Steffen Loesch: Programming Languages, Treated Formally

15:30 – 16:00      -BREAK-
16:00 – 16:30     Damon Civin: Noether, Bruhat, Morawetz
16:30 – 17:00       Zhen Lin Low: The Humble Arrow in Mathematics
17:00 – 17:45       Dr. Hugh Hunt: The remarkable accuracy of the Trinity College Clock

20:00 –                Annual Dinner

(Made possible by the kind support of the Heilbronn Fund)

For more details, see http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/43502