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SUMMARY:Challenge\, Senior Challenge\, Open Challenge competitions
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URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/challenge-senior-challenge-open-challenge-competitions-2
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SUMMARY:LivMS Sixth Form Pop Maths Quiz
DESCRIPTION:Sixth Form Pop Maths Quiz\nDate: 01 Mar\, 2025\nTime: 09:45 to 14:00\nPresenter: Barry Grantham\, Ivo Siekmann\, Ian Jarman\, Tony Carter\, Sue Harkness\nTitle: Sixth Form Pop Maths Quiz\nAudience: Sixth Form\nVenue: face to face and online\nContact: Barry Grantham: mailto:granthb47@gmail.com\n\n\n\nThe 2025 Pop Maths Quiz will be hosted simultaneously face-to-face and also on online\, for teams of up to 4 students.\nThe date is Saturday 1st March 2025. \nThe timing is from 0945 to 1400 \, with a short break for lunch. \nThe venue is the Student Life Building of LJMU\, accessed by pathway from either Copperas Hill or Brownlow Hill \nFirst-aiders will be present in this building. \nWe anticipate making certificates available for all the students in their teams but it will only be possible to award prizes to those attending the face-to-face event on the day. \nWhat does it cost? \nThere is no entry charge for this event. \nTo see more details and previous prize-winners click: Pop Maths Quiz
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/livms-sixth-form-pop-maths-quiz-2
LOCATION:LJMU Student Life Building
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250312T170000
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SUMMARY:LivMS Presidential Lecture: Teaching Mathematics to Primary Pupils
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Mathematics to Primary Pupils\nDavina Stanley (LivMS President) \nOnline \nSuitable for students aged 11 up\, their teachers and anyone interested in mathematics \nThe talk is free but registration is required via TicketSource
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/livms-presidential-lecture-title-to-be-announced
LOCATION:online
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250507T190000
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SUMMARY:MEM Senior Challenge Prize Evening
DESCRIPTION:Date: 07 May\, 2025\nTime: 19:00\nPresenter: Kerrie Evans\nTitle: MEM Senior Challenge Prize Evening\nAudience: MEM Senior Challenge Prize winners and families\nVenue: University of Liverpool\, Central Teaching Laboratory Building (CTL)\, L69 7ZL\nContact: Chris Marchant\n\n\nThe MEM Senior Challenge Prize Evening will take place on Wednesday 07 May 2025 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/mem-senior-challenge-prize-evening-4
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SUMMARY:LivMS Open Challenge Prize Evening
DESCRIPTION:Date: 07 May\, 2025\nTime: 19:00 – 2100\nPresenter: Colin Wright\nTitle: Open Challenge Prize Evening 2025\nAudience: Participants in Open Challenge and their teachers\nVenue: Gather.town\nContact: Colin Wright\n\n\nThis is an online event for Open Challenge entrants and their teachers. \nThe event will be held on Gather.town and registration is necessary via Ticket Source. \nThe link for this is \nhttps://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-vvqqjne\nRegistration will close at 23:59 on 6 May\nA link for joining the event and a password will be sent out by email by 13:00 on 7 May. \nOnce you have joined the event on 7 May\, you can have fun navigating a virtual venue\, register your attendance\, socialise\, enjoy a presentation of the solutions and prizes and challenge yourself with a variety of mathematical puzzles and mazes. \nProvisional timetable \n\n19:00 Doors open\n19:20 Talk on behalf of our sponsors (Worshipful Company of Actuaries)\n19:25 Presentation of sample solutions by Tony Carter\n19:35 Presentation of prizes by Rachel Bearon (President\, Liverpool Mathematical Society)\n19:45 Puzzles and mazes\n20:55 Evening closes.\n\nOpen Challenge ’25 is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries and is also supported by W. H. Smith Promotions Ltd.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nhttp://www.whsmith.co.uk
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/livms-open-challenge-prize-evening-4
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250513T210000
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SUMMARY:MEM Challenge Prize Evening
DESCRIPTION:Date: 13 May\, 2025\nTime: 19:00\nPresenter: Kerrie Evans\nTitle: MEM Challenge Prize Evening\nAudience: MEM Challenge Prize winners and families\nVenue: University of Liverpool\, Central Teaching Laboratory Building (CTL)\, L69 7ZL\nContact: Chris Marchant\n\n\nThe MEM Challenge Prize Evening will take place on Wednesday 14 May 2024 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/mem-challenge-prize-evening-3
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251018T093000
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SUMMARY:MEM Saturday Masterclass 1 of 4
DESCRIPTION:Masterclass:  1 of 4 \nDate:  Saturday 18th October 2025 \nTime:  0930 to 1430 \nVenue:  Liverpool Universiy Maths School (ULMaS)
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/mem-saturday-masterclass-1-of-5
LOCATION:ULMaS\, Liverpool
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SUMMARY:MEM Saturday Masterclass 2 of 4
DESCRIPTION:Masterclass:  2 of 4 \nDate:  Saturday 8th November 2025 \nTime:  0930 to 1430 \nVenue:  Ridgeway High School\, Wirral
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/mem-saturday-masterclass-2-of-5-2
LOCATION:Ridgeway High School\, Noctorum Avenue\, Prenton\, Birkenhead\, Wirral\, CH43 9EB
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SUMMARY:MEM Saturday Masterclass 3 of 4
DESCRIPTION:Masterclass:  3 of 4 \nDate:  Saturday 22nd November 2025 \nTime:  0930 to 1430 \nVenue:  Liverpool Hope University
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/mem-saturday-masterclass-3-of-5-2
LOCATION:HOPE\, Eden Building\, Taggart Avenue\, Liverpool\, L16 9JD
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SUMMARY:MEM Saturday Masterclass 4 of 4
DESCRIPTION:Masterclass:  4 of 4 \nDate:  Saturday 6th December 2025 \nTime:  0930 to 1430 \nVenue:  University of Liverpool
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/mem-saturday-masterclass-4-of-4
LOCATION:UoL Maths Building\, Peach Street\, Liverpool\, L69 7BX
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SUMMARY:LivMS Popular Lecture: Checking the Calculations - How do engineers trust their designs?
DESCRIPTION:Date: 04 Feb\, 2026\nTime: 17:00\nPresenter: Dr Ksenija Dvurecenska\nTitle: Checking the Calculations: How Do Engineers Trust Their Designs?\nAudience: Year 11 upwards\nVenue: University of Liverpool campus (room TBC)\nContact: Michael Jones\nRegistration: Via Eventbrite\n\nEngineers are constantly developing new designs and technologies for a safer and more sustainable future. With our growing understanding of the world and computational capabilities\, computer simulations have transformed how we study engineering systems and environment around us. A simulation uses maths to show how an engineering system or a scientific phenomenon works in real life. It helps scientists and engineers understand and test what might happen under different circumstances. For example\, cars driving over a bridge or how an airplane behaves during a storm. Computer simulations are enabling more prototypes to be explored and more tests to be performed virtually at a fraction of the time and cost. \nIt’s important to show how much we can trust a simulation and how good or bad its results are. This can be achieved through a validation process\, which involves comparing simulation results with physical measurements. We analyse similarities and differences by using statistical methods and conclude how good or bad the simulation is based on the data. It can help decision-makers to have confidence when considering simulation results and help to create safer\, stronger\, and more environmentally friendly designs for the future. \nAbout the speaker \nDr Ksenija Dvurecenska is a lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool. She won the Chief Scientist’s Award (National Nuclear Laboratory) in 2021. \nHer research focuses on developing validation methodologies to build confidence in predictions of computational models. She studies image decomposition (or orthogonal decomposition) techniques and statistical methods to compare outcomes from simulations\, for example displacement fields\, with full-field measurements. These techniques are applicable to a variety of disciplines and sectors where data can be represented as a map; currently\, she is concentrating on applications in aerospace and nuclear engineering. \nThe challenges she is addressing are the standardisation of the validation methods\, effective use of the measured data in the validation process and interpretation of the validation outcomes to support decisions based on the predictions of the computational models. \n 
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/livms-popular-lecture-checking-the-calculations-how-do-engineers-trust-their-designs
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SUMMARY:LivMS Presidential Lecture: Singularities - When Smooth things go Sharp
DESCRIPTION:Date: 11 Mar\, 2026\nTime: 17:00\nPresenter: Dr Graham Reeve\nTitle: Presidential Lecture: Singularities: When Smooth Things Go Sharp\nAudience: Year 11 upwards\nVenue: University of Liverpool campus (room TBC)\nContact: Michael Jones\nRegistration: Via Eventbrite \nThis lecture is face-to-face on the University of Liverpool’s campus\, exact venue TBC. It is suitable for anyone aged 16 or over with an interest in mathematics. Please book one ticket for each person attending. There will not be a live stream or a recording. \nFrom the crease in a folded piece of paper to the tip of a cone\, singularities are places where smooth shapes suddenly turn sharp\, crumpled\, or irregular. In this talk we’ll explore how mathematicians study these fascinating phenomena. Using illuminating examples like the cusp of a curve or the pinch of a surface\, we’ll uncover how mathematicians reveal the hidden patterns behind singularities in places as varied as optics\, astrophysics\, and robotics. \nAbout the speaker \nDr Graham Reeve gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2012\, after which he went on to do postdoctoral research at Universidade de Sao Paulo. He is now a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Liverpool Hope University\, where he has taught since 2017. \nGraham is the 2025-26 President of the Liverpool Mathematical Society and this is his Presidential Lecture.
URL:https://mathsmerseyside.org.uk/event/livms-presidential-lecture-singularities-when-smooth-things-go-sharp
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