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Consolidation

I’ve recently returned to the West Country to take up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Bristol. As a result, I’ve expanded the maths subdomain to include content that used to be on my University of Edinburgh homepage, and to perform the same role for my time in Bristol. There are also summary [...]

Maths at the Science Festival

(Cross-posted to Modulo Errors)
Just a quick note to mention two talks from the Edinburgh International Science Festival, which my flatmate chaired and I took some photos at: Marcus du Sautoy’s The Num8er My5teries and Ian Stewart’s Cows in the Maze. Summaries, courtesy of Haggis the Sheep, can be found here and here respectively.

The Mathematical Tourist

A quick link-and-run as I’m just back from the Westcountry with 20Gb of video/photos to process, but whilst I was away a guest post I wrote for the SoSauce travel geek blog went live, which can be found here. It’s part of my ongoing ‘mathematical tourism’-themed contributions to the site, covering a couple of locations [...]

Submitted!

I have now submitted my PhD thesis for examination; hopefully the viva will be in April. Until then, I finally have the time for various projects and trips I’ve been planning, so there should be a bit more activity here. Coming up:

The Bath Upchuck juggling and circus skills convention, where I’m hoping for plenty of [...]

Toronto

I recently spent a couple of weeks in Toronto, officially for a workshop at the Fields Institute. Details of my talk there (with links to the slides and audio recording) can be found in this post. Of course, whilst there I also managed some sightseeing; there’s a review of my trip on SoSauce, with an [...]