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.

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

This coming Monday, we are delighter to have Professor Imre Leader deliver a combinatorics talk at the CMS. And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!

Title: Tournaments
Speaker: Professor Imre Leader
Abstract: Most tournaments are of two types. There are all-play-all tournaments, like many chess tournaments or the group stages of football tournaments, and there are knockout tournaments where one loss eliminates you, like most tennis tournaments or the final stages of football tournaments. We will discuss some interesting things that happen in each of these two.
Date: Monday, 28 October
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!

In addition, the TMS is also partnering with Quant Intuition (https://www.quantintuition.com/), who are kindly offering free access to their educational resources for all TMS members! Contact the membership secretary (Blaise Mo, bm628@cam) for the access code (for identity verification purposes, use your @cam email address, or your email address registered on the TMS mailing list).

Following the AGM held on Saturday, a new TMS Committee has been elected for 2024/2025:

President: Eleanor MacGillivray
Vice-President: Arunav Maheshwari
Secretary: Dylan Toh
Treasurer: Samuel Liew
Membership Officer: Blaise Mo
Constable: Fredy Yip

Over the coming days, you should receive details concerning ticketing for the TMS Annual Dinner, and information about the Garden Party and the Annual Cricket Match will arrive in due course.

On a personal note, I’ve grateful to have been part of the Committee over the past year, and I’ve enjoyed sharing with you all the activities of the TMS. The fact that the AGM had significant attendance and several competitive elections should certainly bode well for the future of the society. I’m glad to be handing over my role to Dylan, who I’m sure will do an excellent job for the next year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the TMS evolves under the new committee.

– Jason.

The society’s AGM will be taking place on the 27^th of April at 4:30pm in the Blue Boar Common Room. We plan to offer refreshments and pizza to those attending. Elections will be held for the following committee positions:

1. President: The President shall coordinate the Committee and invite speakers.
2. Vice-President: The Vice-President shall book the rooms and aid the President, stepping in as necessary.
3. Secretary: The Secretary shall send weekly emails and publicise events to our members.
4. Treasurer: The Treasurer shall organise sponsorships, apply for College funding and make sure we don’t go bankrupt!
5. Membership Officer: The Membership Officer shall manage membership and organised socials.
6. Constable: The Constable (usually an ex-officer) shall aid the Committee in its functions.

As responsibilities are broadly shared across the committee, most positions will not have a significant time-commitment, and each committee member can effectively contribute to shaping the functions of the TMS. For further information about particular roles, please feel free to contact any of the current committee members.

Only Trinity members may stand for election; if you wish to run for a position, you should prepare a brief speech and notify the President (fy276) of your intention to run in advance of the AGM. I would highly recommend those interested to consider running – so that the traditions of the society can both be preserved and improved upon in future.

I hope you’re all well and enjoying the Easter break. In collaboration with The Archimedeans, the society is pleased to announce the establishment of a new annual lecture in honour of Sir Michael Atiyah, a distinguished mathematician and former Master of Trinity. The inaugural lecture will be given in the first week of term by Prof. Sir Simon Donaldson of Imperial College London; see below for full details.

The Inaugural Atiyah Lecture

Title: Complex numbers, quaternions, octonions and singular spaces
Speaker: Simon Donaldson
Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will discuss the 1958 algebro-geometric paper of Atiyah “On analytic surfaces with double points”, relating smoothings and resolutions of two-dimensional double point singularities. In the second part I will review the quaternion number system, differential-geometric hyperkahler structures on four-dimensional manifolds and the ALE spaces which connect with the first part. For the last part of the talk, I will introduce the octonion number system, the exceptional Lie group G{2} and the corresponding differential-geometric structures on seven-dimensional manifolds. I will discuss some parts of the 2001 paper of Atiyah and Witten “M-Theory dynamics on a manifold of G{2} holonomy”, and questions of current research interest concerning singularities of G_{2} structures.
Date: Thursday 25 April
Time: 5pm
Location: Babbage Lecture Theatre – New Museums Site