Mathematical Education on Merseyside

LivMS Popular Lecture
2020-02-26 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | LJMU Redmonds Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5UG
Secrets of the Rainbow, Professor Ian Jones
Lecture Theatre 2, Redmonds Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5UG
Audience: 16+ and all those interested in mathematics
Entry is free to all students and to LivMS members; others pay £4 at the door.
In this talk, Ian Jones will present mathematical models, developed during the course of the last few hundred years, which explain some of the features of the rainbow. Such features include the circular shape of the primary and secondary bows, Alexander’s dark band, order of the colours, angle of the bows in the sky and many others. These will be discussed with the help of some secondary school geometry.

UoL Maths Club
2020-01-25 10:00 - 12:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Title: A Mathematician’s Journey into the Marvellous World of Microscopic Swimmers & Crawlers, Rachael Bearon
Title: Brussels Sprouts, Joel Haddley
The University of Liverpool Maths Club is aimed at school and college students, from Year 10 up to Year 13, who are keen to experience challenging and enriching mathematics from beyond the school curriculum, and meet others with a similar interest.
Younger students with Year 10 knowledge may also be considered for membership.
It is free of charge to attend.

LivMS Christmas Lecture
2019-12-12 14:00 - 15:00
Presenter: Tom Rocks Maths (a.k.a. Tom Crawford)
Title: Christmas Lecture: It’s all Greek to me!
Audience: Year 11 up, and all those interested in mathematics.
Venue: University of Liverpool, Lecture Theatre 3, Teaching Hub 502. This is building 502 on the map https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/files/docs/maps/liverpool-university-campus-map.pdf There is a visitor carpark with entrance on Mount Pleasant and a car park under the Metropolitan Cathedral https://www.liverpoolmetrocathedral.org.uk/visit-the-cathedral/ with entrance also on Mount Pleasant.
Contact: Peter Giblin pjgiblin@liv.ac.uk

Entry is free to all, but booking will be needed. Please use the form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMPmoHu46iSkhyyK5q0nbOfslAQXxcJKKvxj_5jnYEY6Aguw/viewform

Maths: it’s all Greek to me! You’ve probably heard of Pythagoras, Archimedes and Plato, but do you know the sins behind their stories? From murder and deceit to running naked down the street, the Ancient Greek mathematicians were anything but boring. I’ll be telling you all about their mischief – mathematical or otherwise – as I bring the history of maths to life (featuring live experiments and togas).
Dr Tom Crawford is a maths tutor at the University of Oxford with a mission to share his love of maths with the world. His award-winning website http://www.tomrocksmaths.com/ features videos, podcasts, articles and puzzles designed to make maths more entertaining, exciting and enthralling for all. Be sure to follow him on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for the latest updates @tomrocksmaths.

MEM Masterclass
2019-12-07 10:00 - 14:30 | LJMU IM Marsh campus, Barkhill Road, Liverpool, L17 6BD
Masterclass 5 of 5
Mathematics of Juggling, Colin Wright

UoL Maths Club
2019-11-30 10:00 - 12:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Title: Counting Functions, Peter Giblin
Title: Decision Trees, Sue Harkness
The University of Liverpool Maths Club is aimed at school and college students, from Year 10 up to Year 13, who are keen to experience challenging and enriching mathematics from beyond the school curriculum, and meet others with a similar interest.
Younger students with Year 10 knowledge may also be considered for membership.
It is free of charge to attend.

MEM Masterclass
2019-11-23 10:00 - 14:30 | LJMU IM Marsh campus, Barkhill Road, Liverpool, L17 6BD
Masterclass 4 of 5
Property Tycoons, Barry Grantham
Egyptian Mathematics, Paul Killen

MEM Masterclass
2019-11-09 10:00 - 14:30 | HOPE, Eden Building, Taggart Avenue, Liverpool, L16 9JD
Masterclass 3 of 5
Fabulous Fractals, Barry Grantham
Codes, Sue Harkness

LivMS Lecture
2019-11-08 16:30 - 17:30 | UoL Rotblatt Theatre, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Presenter: Caucher Birkar
Title: Algebra vs Geometry
Audience: Sixth form, undergraduate and general
Venue: Rotblat Lecture Theatre, University of Liverpool
Contact: Alice Rizzardo

This is a lecture aimed at undergraduate students, and this year’s speaker is Prof. Caucher Birkar, who just won the Fields Medal last year – this is the highest honor in mathematics, similar to the Nobel Prize in other fields. The lecture should be of interest also to sixth form students and all those interested in algebra or geometry.
Abstract: The fields of algebra and geometry interact in numerous ways. This has a long history going back to thousands of years ago. In this talk I will discuss some of those interactions with a particular emphasis on algebraic geometry.
Caucher Birkar is a professor at the University of Cambridge. He grew up on a subsistence farm in the Kurdistan province of Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, and relocated to the UK as a refugee in 2000. In 2004 he received his PhD from Nottingham University. He has made fundamental contributions to birational geometry and the minimal model program. Among many honors, he was awarded the 2010 Leverhulme Prize in mathematics and statistics for “his outstanding contributions to fundamental research in algebraic geometry”, the 2010 Prize of the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, the 2016 AMS Moore Prize, and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 2019. In 2018 he received the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, “for the proof of the boundedness of Fano varieties and for contributions to the minimal model program”.

UoL Maths Club
2019-10-26 10:00 - 12:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Title: Binary Arithmetic – Counting in Ones, Robin McLean
Title: Complex Numbers for Fun and Profit, Colin Wright
The University of Liverpool Maths Club is aimed at school and college students, from Year 10 up to Year 13, who are keen to experience challenging and enriching mathematics from beyond the school curriculum, and meet others with a similar interest.
Younger students with Year 10 knowledge may also be considered for membership.
It is free of charge to attend.

MEM Masterclass
2019-10-19 10:00 - 14:30 | LJMU IM Marsh campus, Barkhill Road, Liverpool, L17 6BD
Masterclass 2 of 5
Folding Mathematics, Sue Pope, Tung Ken Lam
Games of Chance, Aimee Carmichael

LivMS Popular Lecture
2019-10-17 17:30 - 18:30 | LJMU Redmonds Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5UG
Presenter: Nira Chamberlain (Senior Data Scientist at Holland and Barrett)
Title: From Hip Hop to AI: The Power of Real World Mathematics
Audience: Year 11 up, and all those interested in mathematics
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Redmonds Building of LJMU, corner of Brownlow Hill and Clarence Street, Liverpool L3 5UG https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate-students/visit-us/directions/redmonds-building
The nearest public carpark is at the bottom end (nearest the city centre) of Mount Pleasant, L3 5TB: https://liverpool.gov.uk/parking/council-car-parks/mount-pleasant/
Contact: Peter Giblin pjgiblin@liv.ac.uk
Entry: free to all students and to members of LivMS; others pay £4 at the door.

In this talk, Nira will demonstrate his unique contribution to this field through actual real-life mathematical modelling. Nira will take you on a tour of some of his greatest mathematical adventures, challenges and inspirations. From Hip Hop to AI Apocalypse, Nira will show you the Real-World Power of Mathematics.
About the speaker:
Dr Nira Chamberlain PhD HonDSc is the President Designate of the Institute of Mathematics and its Application (IMA) and is a Visiting Fellow of Loughborough University Mathematical Sciences Department.
Nira won the Big Internet Math Off ‘World’s most interesting mathematician’ in 2018. See https://aperiodical.com/2018/08/the-big-internet-math-off-the-end/ This is an invited international mathematical communication tournament, with voting by the general public.
Nira has two mathematical doctorates and is listed by the PowerList 2019 Top 100 Most Influential Black Person in the UK. Dr Nira Chamberlain is also in listed by the Science Council as ‘one of the UK’s top 100 Scientist’ and in 2015 joined the elite list of distinguish mathematicians who featured in the biographical reference book Who’s Who. As well as this Nira Chamberlain is one of the few British Mathematicians to feature in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics & Society. The encyclopedia highlights two of Nira’s mathematical models and their impact on the field of naval engineering. This has included periods in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel. During his career Nira has been an invited to speak at several prestigious events such as the New Scientist’s Live, The Royal Society -Destination STEMM, Oxford University – Reddick Lecture, and at King College London – The Maxwell Lecture to name a few.

MEM Masterclass
2019-10-05 10:00 - 14:30 | UoL Central Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Masterclass 1 of 5
Turtle Graphics and LOGO, Barry Grantham
Mathematics and Magic, Peter Giblin

UoL Maths Club
2019-09-28 10:00 - 12:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Title: Fake Paradoxes, Oleg Karpenkov
Title: tba, Sarah Annand
The University of Liverpool Maths Club is aimed at school and college students, from Year 10 up to Year 13, who are keen to experience challenging and enriching mathematics from beyond the school curriculum, and meet others with a similar interest.
Younger students with Year 10 knowledge may also be considered for membership.
It is free of charge to attend.

MEM AGM
2019-09-18 17:00 - 18:00 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
MEM Annual General Meeting
Room G02, Department of Mathematics, University of Liverpool

LivMS AGM
2019-09-17 17:00 - 18:00 | LJMU James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF
Presenter: Colin Mercure
Title: Annual General Meeting
Audience: LivMS Members
Venue: LJMU, Byrom Street, Room 705
Contact: Michael Jones
