Welcome to the Queens' College Mathematics Society's website.
QMS, founded in 2014, has one mission: to create a fun, inclusive and sociable environment for members of Queens' College, both mathematicians and otherwise, to learn about and celebrate all of mathematics and its various applications.
Queens' Mathematics Society serves a number of functions, including:
Listen to professors, lecturers and PhD students describe their cutting-edge research and mathematical interests in an accessible format
From garden parties to formal dinners, enjoy the chance to meet others with similar interests and to talk to leading academics about their current research
Find out about some of the exciting internships and career opportunities available to quantitative graduates from leading industry professionals
Come along to the amazing events we have lined up. Entry is FREE, and we always have plenty of free refreshments available.
Speaker: Current Students
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Overview: Listen to our current students talk about their experiences completing research projects and internships over the summer, and feel free to ask them any questions you might have!
Have a look at some of the highlights of the events we have held over the years
Speaker: Richard Weber
Position: Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research
Overview: Professor Weber, in his pioneering work into rendezvous problems, recently solved the 'Mozart Cafe Problem' for the n=3 case. This represented the very first non-trivial solution to a rendezvous search problem in history. Find out how he did it, and what deceptively difficult rendezvous search problems remain unsolved in this cutting edge presentation by a world leader in the field.
Speaker: Dr. Sam Pegler
Position: University Researcher in Fluid Dynamics
Subject: Glacial Fluid Dynamics
Overview: Dr. Pegler is a Director of Studies at Queens' College, and one of the university's premier researchers into low Reynolds Number Fluid Dynamics. In this talk, he describes his research into glacial dynamics, investigating the mathematical factors which are driving the disappearence of ice shelves in the Antarctic.
The annual QMS garden party took place in the glorious sunshine, with plenty of delicious food, hearty drink and wonderful company. The event also saw the election of our new committee members.
Speaker: Prof. Imre Leader
Position: Professor in DPMMS
Subject: Clueless Voting
Overview: Our starting point is the following obviously silly question. Suppose that you want to vote in a yes/no poll on some issue, and you want your vote to be right, but you have no idea at all about the issue. What should you do?
Speaker: Dr. Anna Żytkow
Position: Lecturer in Astrophysics
Subject: Stars with Neutron Cores
Overview: Dr. Anna Żytkow is an astrophysicist who, together with Prof. Kip Thorne (scientific consultant for the film Interstellar), developed a theoretical model for a new star type, the Thorne–Żytkow object (TŻO) which contains either a neutron star or a black hole core at the center of a stellar envelope. Come along to learn more about her fascinating work and astrophysics in general.
Speaker: Prof. Claude Warnick
Position: Professor in DAMTP & DMPSS and our own DoS
Subject: Divergent Series
Overview: A popular youtube video makes the claim that 1+2+3+… = -1/12. This seems strongly contradicted by our understanding from Analysis I that this series diverges. Nevertheless, it turns out that with care we can make sense of such divergent sums and even apply these results to compute real physical quantities. How can we understand this apparent paradox? And what does Bill Clinton have to do with it?
We're incredibly passionate about making Queens' Maths Society the best college maths society in Cambridge.
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Joining the Queens' Maths Society is simple and absolutely FREE. All Queens' members are welcome and select talks will be open to all members of the University. To join, simply come along to any event that takes your fancy, or send us an e-mail and we will add you to our mailing list, so you can keep up-to-date with all the latest QMS news. You can also join our Facebook group where we will post about upcoming events.
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