Dear All,
Mersenne members may be interested in the following meetings organised by the British Society for the History of Mathematics:
‘Symmetry and Groups’, Birkbeck College, London, Saturday 23rd May
The aim of the day is to look at the history of symmetry and its study through group theory
9:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Sarah Hart: ‘Symmetry: before groups and after groups’.(introductory talk)
10:40 Peter Neumann: 'Sigola and permutations: there's little symmetry in Galois.'
11:30 Coffee
11:50 Norman Biggs: 'Coxeter and Conway on the Symmetry of Graphs and Maps.'
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Mark Ronan: 'Les belles au bois dormant: Strange beauties hidden in
the undergrowth.'
14:50 Rob Curtis: ‘Sphere-packing, the Leech lattice and the Conway group’
15:40 Tea
16:00 Siobhan Roberts: ‘Symmetries & Asymmetries, Coxeter & Conway’.
17:00 End
To register go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e6HLsaN0WadkOPF9JHGV8LI3VRXwRpQC9y6-ECBZJmo/viewform?c=0&w=1
‘The Big Picture: A Celebration of 100 Years of General Relativity’ Oxford, Saturday 20th June
Rewley House 1 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JA.
Speakers:
• Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell 'Using Pulsars to test General Relativity - an Introduction'
• Professor Robert Iliffe 'Newton and Infinity'
• Dr. Michael Hoskin 'William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens'
• Professor Jeremy Gray 'Intrinsic geometry: Following Gauss and Riemann from Curvature to the Shape of Space'
• Professor Robert Lambourne 'General Relativity, 1915-1919'
• Professor Malcolm McCallum 'General Relativity: from esoteric theory to everyday tool'
Joint meeting with Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE).
Advanced booking and payment of fee via the OUDCE website is essential.
To book go to: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=G100-57&search=Relativity&submitbutton=Search&multisearch=single&search_type[]=800
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