10 ‘rules’ for a successful Careers Fair for mathematicians So you’re organising a careers fair for mathematics students? Okay, it’s a tall order you’ve set yourself but it can be done! I have attended careers fairs that have worked for mathematics students and those which have not worked as well. I would like to share…
Podcast: Episode 51 – Sebastien Guenneau, Optical wave guides and applied mathematics research
These are the show notes for episode 51 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 51 is the smallest number which can be written with all the digits from 1 to 5 (without repetition) as a sum of primes: 51 = 2 + 3 + 5 + 41. More about 51 from Number Gossip.…
Maths Maps
Over at edte.ch blog, Tom Barrett has been encouraging people to get involved with Maths Maps, a collaborative initative to create classroom resources that you are invited to contribute to. The idea is to put mathematical or numeracy activities and questions into real world maps, for example in the shapes or numbers of objects found…
Macro December
The last two blog posts have attempted to catch up this blog on October and November. This post will be an attempt to bring December up to date. I started the month by giving a lecture at Nottingham on subsitution ciphers for the History of maths and x and recording this using the in-room capture…
Where I’ve been and what I did there… on a map
At the change of semester, I am again in a brief planning stage (the calm before the storm), trying to work out where to direct my efforts. A major consideration is where I have been. Last time I was in this position, back in September, I wrote a blog post Where I’ve been and what…
Macro November
If you read the previous blog post, you will realise I am slightly remorseful at the reduction in blog posts since I started using Twitter and am attempting to quickly catch up ready to post more often in future. Here is a catchup post for November. By the start of November, I had noticed the…
Macro October
Longer term readers of this blog who follow me on Twitter may realise that I have posted considerably fewer posts here since I’ve been ‘micro-blogging’. The podcasts resumed in October, and the show notes posts were regular through the autumn. The non-podcast blog posts in between were less common. Here is a catchup post for…