I know, I know…I’ve been lax lately. But in my defense, I’ve also been spending a lot of time organizing the semesterly MUMS trivia night. It’s this Friday (tomorrow) at 5.15pm. Come on up to the Russell Love Theatre in the Richard Berry Building (i.e. maths and stats) — entry is free (even if you [...]
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Argh! This is it, folks — the last seminar of the semester (as next week we’ve got a trivia night planned instead)! You don’t want to miss out on this…so don’t! Same time and place as always: Details are below the fold… —————
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Well — the end of semester is approaching fast, and with it the end of the MUMS Friday Events for 2010. This week is the second last seminar for the year, with Norm Do this week, followed by Paul Pearce next week and a trivia night the week after. I know about as much as [...]
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Oops! First week back, and I’m late posting this up — it’s on today (obviously) and it looks to be a cracker, so make sure to get to the Physics Podium at 1pm! More details below. —————
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Blaaaaaaargh. I’m not feeling particularly well today. Not sure why, but I’m working on the assumption that it’s an extremely temporary situation. Nevertheless, I’m not in a ‘writing lots of information mood’, so just know this: The event this week will be awesome, it will be on tropical geometry, and (as always) there are more [...]
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This past week, the Melbourne University Maths Department lost a close friend and colleague: Our water fountain. Some say the fountain was as old as time itself; some say it was only installed in the past three years. Still others say it was about twenty years old. The only thing we can say for certain [...]
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If that title sounds cryptic, that’s because…well, it is. This week the MUMS event is sort of a mixed bag approach. Antoinette Tordesillas, from the applied maths tribe of the maths department, has gathered together five of her students, and each of them will be giving a short presentation on some problem or issue they [...]
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Henry Segerman, to the best of my knowledge, is a reasonably recent addition to the academic staff at the University of Melbourne — having come in this year as a research fellow (or last year — as ever I’m a bit hazy on the details). He’s got an extremely interesting website on all sorts of [...]
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As you can see, I’ve decided that it’s about time I gave these weekly notifications some kind of label — thus is born the MUMS Friday Event category of my blog which, considering there is an event every Friday of every week, should be getting a fair bit of love from me until the end [...]
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If attending the Secular Society event on Friday isn’t our thing, perhaps the next MUMS seminar will be more down your alley? This week, Arun Ram will be presenting — the abstract is below the fold. As always with this type of maths, the abstract will be scarier than the talk itself. It all comes [...]
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