Mathematical Education on Merseyside

MEM Senior Challenge Prize Evening - CANCELLED
2020-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | UoL Central Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BX
This event is cancelled due to Coronavirus.
The University of Liverpool has made the decision to postpone or cancel all of the University’s public events until the end of April due to the COVID-19 situation.
It might be possible to re-arrange the Prize Evening on a new date later this year, but if necessary, it is our intention to make alternative arrangements, if we can, for the publication of results and distribution of prizes and certificates. We don’t want pupils and schools to be disappointed. This could, for example, be achieved by sending prizes and certificates to schools for internal distribution.
We will make further announcements about this as the effects of the spread of COVID-19 become known.

Presenter: Barry Grantham, Kerrie McCaffrey
Title: MEM Senior Challenge Prize Evening 2020
Audience: MEM Senior Challenge entrants, teachers, parents and guests
Venue: Central Teaching Laboratory, University of Liverpool
Contact: Barry Grantham

This event will take place at the same time and in the same venue as the LivMS Open Challenge Prize Evening.

LivMS Open Challenge Prize Evening - CANCELLED
2020-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | UoL Central Teaching Hub, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BX
This event is cancelled due to Coronavirus.
The University of Liverpool has made the decision to postpone or cancel all of the University’s public events until the end of April due to the COVID-19 situation.
It might be possible to re-arrange the Prize Evening on a new date later this year, but if necessary, it is our intention to make alternative arrangements, if we can, for the publication of results and distribution of prizes and certificates. We don’t want pupils and schools to be disappointed. This could, for example, be achieved by sending prizes and certificates to schools for internal distribution.
We will make further announcements about this as the effects of the spread of COVID-19 become known.

Presenter: Alison Carter
Title: LivMS Open Challenge Prize Evening 2020
Audience: LivMS Open Challenge entrants, teachers, parents and guests
Venue: Central Teaching Laboratory, University of Liverpool
Contact: Alison Carter

This event will take place at the same time and in the same venue as the MEM Senior Challenge Prize Evening.

UoL Maths Club - CANCELLED
2020-04-25 10:00 - 12:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Title: tba, David Lewis
An Elevator Pitch for Group Theory, 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.

UoL Maths Club - CANCELLED
2020-03-28 10:00 - 12:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Title: tba, Graham Reeve
Title: tba, Julia Eisenberg
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 Pop Maths Quiz
2020-03-07 10:00 - 14:00 | LJMU James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF
Example question: If the outer circle has radius 12 cm., what is the radius of the dark red circles?
Presenters: Barry Grantham, Tony Carter, Ian Jarman
Title: Sixth Form Pop Maths Quiz
Audience: Sixth Form
Venue: Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF
The Pop Maths Quiz is a TEAM competition that runs a bit like a Pub Quiz but without any alcohol!
Schools are invited to enter one or more teams (up to a maximum of 4 teams).
Teams consist of 4 students (under 19 years) who, during the Quiz, work together to attempt to solve a number of questions on a wide range of mathematical topics.
They then have the opportunity to give their answers via an electronic response system.
Not all questions require specific A-level maths knowledge but all questions have a mathematical flavour.
There are substantial prizes awarded to the winners on the day and the school names will be published on the LivMS website.
Certificates will be awarded to all winners and entrants.
For more details of the 2020 event click here

UoL Maths Club
2020-02-29 10:00 - 12:30 | UoL Maths Building, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX
Title: Quantum Cryptography, Kurt Langfield
Title: Branching Processes, Sam Tickle
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 Popular Lecture
2020-02-26 17:30 - 18:30 | 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
