SIAM & IMA Student Chapter Mathematics Challenge

Various

NOTE: you needed to have signed up to the event by October 20th 2021. Please contact us if you still want to take part and we will see what we can do. Schedule: Wednesday, 10th November 10:30 to 11:00, Keighton Auditorium: Introduction and rules12:00 to 13:00, Room TBC: Free lunch and access to questions Thursday, 11th November…

Free

PGR Practise Talks (Dec, 2021)

Room E04, Monica Patridge Building University Park, Nottingham

The SIAM & IMA Student Chapter is organising a PGR Practice Talk, giving PGR students the opportunity to present their work and ask for input from other PGR students. The event will be held on Thursday the 2nd of December, from 13:00-15:50 in Room E04, Monica Patridge Building (formerly known as Teaching and Learning building).…

Movie Night – A Beautiful Mind

Hallward Cinema Room, LG140 Hallward Library, Road University Park, Nottingham

Join us for our movie night, complete with free drinks and snacks! We are showing A Beautiful Mind, a biographical drama based on the life of the schizophrenic Mathematician, John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner. Doors open at 16:15 for a 16:30 start. The movie is 2 hours and 15…

From growing neurons and sunflowers to liquid crystal elastomers and elephant trunks: the fascinating dynamics of active filaments

via Microsoft Teams and streamed in D09, Monica Partridge Building

We're delighted to be hosting Alain Goriely for a talk via Teams. Abstract: The natural and artificial world around us is full of active filamentary structures that respond to external stimuli and modify their internal structures through growth or remodeling to achieve specific functions. For instance, to survive and to thrive, plants rely on their ability…

Free

Movie Night – Hidden Figures

On behalf of the UoN SIAM & IMA student chapter, I would like to let you know that we will be hosting a movie night! The movie that will be shown will be Hidden Figures, starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe and others... ""Hidden Figures" is the incredible untold story of Katherine G.…

Towards a media ecology view of mathematical history

Maths A17

We're delighted to be hosting Peter Ashwin for a talk via Microsoft Teams Abstract The development of mathematical concepts, theories and applications has been enabled by the emergence of new technologies of thought and communication (media, understood in the widest sense possible) that have given new approaches to mathematical questions. These new approaches compete with…

Movie Night – Interstellar

On behalf of the UoN SIAM & IMA student chapter, I would like to let you know that we will be hosting a movie night! The movie that will be shown will be Interstellar. The film will be shown in Monica Partridge A03 on Wednesday 1st July at 5:00pm. There will be drinks and snacks provided! Please see…

Movie Night – Good Will Hunting

On behalf of the UoN SIAM & IMA student chapter, I would like to let you know that we will be hosting a movie night! The movie that will be shown will be Good Will Hunting. The film will be shown in Chem X1 on Friday 30th September at 5:00pm. There will be drinks and snacks provided! After…

PGR Practice Talks (Nov 2022)

The SIAM & IMA Student Chapter is organising a PGR Practice Talk, giving PGR students the opportunity to present their work and ask for input from other PGR students. The event will be held on Monday the 14th of November, from 14:00-17:30 in Room D04, Monica Patridge Building (formerly known as Teaching and Learning building).…

SIAM & IMA Mathematics Challenge 2022

Dear undergraduates, we are pleased to announce that the SIAM maths challenge returns on 25th November with £200 OF PRIZES TO BE WON! Questions will be available from 9-10AM in Pope A17, and online from 10AM at​, with scores and prizes beginning at 5pm in the same place, where there will be food and refreshments!  All undergraduate students…

SIAM & IMA Mathematics Challenge 2023

We are pleased to announce that the SIAM Maths Challenge returns on 1st December with £150 WORTH OF PRIZES TO BE WON! Questions will be available from 9-10am in Pope A15 and online from 10am here on this page, with scores and prizes beginning at 2pm in Pope A14 where there will be food and…