Recently I found out via @beverycool on Twitter that Wolfram|Alpha encodes text as barcodes. For example, here is Peter Rowlett: Just imagine the uses! Well. Hmm. Not sure how useful, but it certainly seems neat! ;) @beverycool is suggesting the Google Doodle for 7th October (a barcode of the word Google) might have been created…
Podcast: Episode 42 – Ed Galea, His career, part 2: Crowd evacuation modelling
These are the show notes for episode 42 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 42 is The Ultimate Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Last week we heard Professor Ed Galea of the University of Greenwich talk about his career from origins in astrophysics and how this led…
Podcast: Episode 41 – Ed Galea, His career, part 1: How astrophysics leads to steel casting and fire modelling
These are the show notes for episode 41 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 41 is prime, the smallest non-palindromic prime which on subtracting its reverse gives a perfect cube. In this episode, part 1 of 2, Professor Ed Galea of the University of Greenwich talks about his career in various aspects of…
Podcast: Episode 40 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
These are the show notes for episode 40 of the Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast. 40 is, in English, the only number whose constituent letters appear in alphabetical order. More about 40 from Number Gossip. This week on the podcast I met Sarah Shepherd, PhD student at the University of Nottingham and Editor of…
Turing apology
With the news that Alan Turing has received an official apology from the government over the terrible treatment he received due to his homosexuality quickly vanishing into the distant past, I decided to dig out a couple of photos I took on a visit earlier in the year. I ran a stall at a postgraduate…
Mathematics Today October: University Liaison Officer’s Report
Keeping in touch The nature of university life means that the undergraduate students I engage with are only likely to be around for a limited period of time. This engagement is usually though either a student run society or through a student member of a staff/student liaison committee. The end of one academic year and…
Where I’ve been and what I did there
Little bit of a dry post but as I am fascinated by keeping track of such things, here is a list of universities I have visited so far as University Liaison Officer for the IMA (since I started in January 2008) and what I did there: Aberdeen (Visited, Careers talk), Bath (Visited), Birmingham (Visited), Brighton…