Tomorrow’s Mathematicians Today 2013 is the second undergraduate mathematics conference to be hosted by the University of Greenwich Department of Mathematical Sciences, with support from the IMA and GCHQ, on Saturday 16 February 2013. Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit an abstract by 1pm on Friday 14 December for a talk on a mathematical topic of…
Declassifying Discoveries by NSA Mathematicians
A petition has been raised for the White House to pressure the USA’s National Security Agency to allow unused discoveries to be declassified, and for “gag order” patents to expire after they have served their purpose. The petition goes as follows: The NSA is the largest employer of mathematicians in the United States. Currently, the…
The ACMEScience.com Kickstarter
A new post is available over at Second-Rate Minds by Samuel Hansen. Technically Second-Rate Minds is a part of ACMEScience.com, as it is hosted on the same servers, and I just wanted to let all of the Second-Rate Minds readers know that ACMEScience is currently running a Kickstarter Campaign to raise money to go…
Aperiodcast – MathsJam 2012!
We took the opportunity of us all being in the same small slice of space and time (MathsJam, last weekend) to record another episode of our continuing audio part-work, The Aperiodcast. We talked about: Christian’s Recreational Maths Seminar Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums to return; maths students sought to take part Matt Parker’s…
What I did on my holidays, by Colin (aged 35 and a bit)
We’re all back from the big MathsJam weekend. We’ve got loads of material which we’ll start putting up once we’ve recovered our energies. Meanwhile, Colin Beveridge has sent in his report of the event. Last weekend – as I’m sure all Aperiodical readers know – was the MathsJam annual gathering in Cheshire. Now, I’ve always…
Math/Maths 121: Live from Maths Jam Conference 2012
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. Recorded live at the Maths Jam Conference 2012, Samuel spoke with Peter and also with John Read, Alistair Bird, James Grime, Katie Steckles and Matt Parker about what they’ve seen and enjoyed at the Maths Jam Conference 2012. Get this episode: Math/Maths 121: Live from…
We’re all off to MathsJam!
This organ’s benevolent editing triumvirate is making its way to a conference centre outside Crewe this weekend for our AGM, which happens to coincide this year with the big MathsJam conference. If you’re going as well, please do say hello, and if you’re not, keep an eye on each of our Twitter feed @aperiodical and the…