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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 [...]

(Mostly) Malta

This time last month I arrived in Malta for what turned out to be a very enjoyable holiday- my notes are now up on SoSauce, as well as an album of the better photos.

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.

Water Balloons

High-speed photography/slow-motion video of bursting water balloons. [...]

Bath Upchuck 2010

Photos and slow-motion video from a juggling convention in [...]

Sublime

Experimenting with dry ice and a high-speed [...]

Edinburgh Urbathon

Last week saw the first Edinburgh `Urbathon‘ – a 10K run with the added complication of obstacles and taking place in the less than flat Holyrood Park. The event was organised by Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland as a fundraiser, if you’re wondering why anyone would subject themselves to such a thing on a Sunday [...]

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 [...]