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@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialMuhammad plugs in his guitar and plays one of maths' most influential hits.
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialRosie and Nick are just about to start their third year. Before they finished their second year, we had a chat about stuff: maths stuff and Oxford stuff.
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialOur new undergraduates are arriving in Oxford this week in preparation for the start of term next week. Exciting times and there's much to take in, but no doubt James Munro's introductory online maths lectures are top of their list...
You can watch them too. Here's the latest: youtu.be/USZekj182j4
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialLooking for an opportunity to work at the intersection of mathematics, neuroscience, and machine learning within a highly interdisciplinary research environment?
Full details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/83168
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialRamón has just left us for a postdoctoral position in Cambridge (it happens occasionally), but before he departed he discussed his research into using random walks to understand physical systems.
Read the case study: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80941
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialOur latest roles: two researchers working closely together to model the hepatitis B virus (HBV) as part of the MiMeC chronic hepatitis B research theme led by Helen Byrne and Jane McKeating and colleagues in Oxford, and in collaboration with colleagues at GSK.
Details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/83017
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialGraham Farmelo's biography of Stephen Hawking has just been published. The title of this Public Lecture is the same as Hawking's 1980 Inaugural Lucasian Lecture. Graham will explain the genesis of that talk, the splash it made and its aftermath.
Details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/82421
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialIs there any game that doesn't arouse the curiosity of a mathematician, however apparently simple? Here's @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialJames Munro's online 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course is sent to our new undergraduates to prepare them for the start of term in October when James greets them with a big welcome and two in-person lectures.
Here's the second online lecture: youtu.be/cASmou81OyY
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialAmong his many interests, Kurt Gödel wrote a privately circulated formal proof for the existence of God using modal logic. But it was an earlier work from 1931 that upended mathematics and logic and which still applies today. Here's Tibo to explain.
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialThere are two compelling reasons to join us as a Hooke/Titchmarsh Research Fellow. You'll be part of a cohort of leading researchers on fellowships with whom you can share ideas. But as importantly you'll be free to pursue an independent research programme of your own.
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialOur 'Introduction to University Mathematics' course provides an online primer for our new students prior to the start of their first term. Here James Munro explains how university mathematics differs from maths at high school.
Here's the first lecture: youtu.be/SVNdjdpRJY0
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialChallenging times. Join a research group working on rough path theory, machine learning and generative AI and related fields, part of a wider multi-university research group from Imperial College London, University College London and Oxford Mathematics.
Role details: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/82495
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialMachine-learning models are often fine-tuned for specific tasks from a pre-trained base model. One model might perform well on a language task, another on an image problem, and another on a different domain altogether. Here's Bethan on model merging.
Read more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/81438
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialFor over 2,000 years scholars have marvelled at the Parthenon in Athens. The audacity, the beauty. And the architectural genius of the Greeks to introduce curves to correct optical illusions. Brilliant.
Except they didn't. Here's @alaingoriely.bsky.social
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialJason Lotay's first lecture on hyperbolic space went down well, even allowing for YouTube joining the crowd and now counting views from the moment videos appear on your feed, even if you recoil in horror at the sight of them.
So here's lecture two: youtu.be/OQ0RTmPUNQ4
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialWhat does an Oxford mathematical biologist specialising in modelling cancer treatments do after completing their PhD? Why, go and do research at medical school, of course. Kit Gallagher, Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard Medical School, is your man.
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialThe Millennium Prize Problems were presented by The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) in 2000. Here's CMI's response to the recent reported settling of the Navier-Stokes problem: www.claymath.org/news/navier-...
CMI is housed in the Andrew Wiles Building, home to Oxford Mathematics.
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialAI is ravenous and is eating mathematicians' lunch. A long-standing problem is solved, others are in its sights. But is this more than just a problem about problems? Here's Fields Medallist James Maynard.
Read the Math and AI Declaration by 25 Fields Medallists: mathandai.org
@oxfordmathematics.bsky.socialWe know Pythagoras was a mathematician, but Pink Floyd?
Sarah Hart is pitch perfect in her public lecture. Watch: youtu.be/yS1DFy2SnQ0
