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He's back and he's got answers to your questions. James Munro's recent film about Skittles generated requests for more maths (exciting), marriage proposals (he's not free) and worries about diet (salad is less mathematically interesting). Time to open another bag.

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You won't believe your eyes!

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What happens to an artist when they get #dementia? Can they still paint? Watch more via: gres.hm/troubled-brain In this lecture, Prof @alaingoriely.bsky.social explores the underlying mechanisms of diseases like Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s.. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social #maths #biology #neurology

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You've got friends round for coffee and cake. There are seven of you. Trouble is, you've made a square cake. How do you make sure everyone receives an equal share? Dominic has his cake and they all eat it.

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Beautiful paper. The best experiments are the ones you can eat.

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I posted about this paper this a while ago on another website, but figured I'd post it here now that I have a few followers. (Joint with @haharrington.bsky.social, Jacob Leygonie, @uzulim.bsky.social, and Louis Theran). arxiv.org/abs/2411.08201 1/10

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In their 3rd year our maths students get to choose from a range of courses including Chris Hollings' History of Mathematics. We're showing two lectures from the course as Chris time travels the history of algebra, classical to modern. Here's the first: youtu.be/L_wNqJRyUcc

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Say hello to soft cells. Nature hates sharp corners. It prefers curved edges and non-flat faces. Now mathematicians have cottoned on. Watch Gábor Domokos' brilliant public lecture on the soft cell. Tomorrow, Thursday 22 May, 5pm and any time after: youtu.be/e7b5pAudnKs

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Oxford Mathematician Mike Giles elected Fellow of @royalsociety.org (FRS). Mike is a computational mathematician who has worked across engineering, computer science & computational finance. Oxford Mathematics now has 34 FRS among current & retired members. Full story: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71654

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Please help me circulate this job ad. Thanks! @the-node.bsky.social

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Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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Me and Leonardo recently sat down to talk to Dyrol about our recent project, and more generally about collaboration in the mathematical and applied sciences. We hope you enjoy! You can read the paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Or the case study on the Maths site www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/70955

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In-person tickets open: The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion Book free via: gres.hm/deceived-brain Prof @alaingoriely.bsky.social* reveals how optical illusions can be modelled mathematically, shedding light on how our brains process information... *also of @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

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@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @joshuabull.bsky.social mathematician extraordinaire scoops a vice chancellors award for research excellence this afternoon @oxcio.bsky.social

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Last week, I gave the Networks seminar here at Oxford on: 'Nonequilibrium steady-states: from diffusion to digraphs', talking about some of my recent work on discrete approximations of nonequilibrium diffusions. It is available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezep... :)

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There is 'growing' evidence that gardening is good for your health. But did you know it is also good for your mathematics? Sam Howison is our man with the mulch.

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Published this week in @pnas.org: A thin sheet folds deeply from a small, localized pull. No patterning, no compression — just geometry. We call it #TUG_Folding — a new instability with α ∝ ε³⁄⁴. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423439122 @mathobservatory.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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Today at 6pm: The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia Watch via: gres.hm/troubled-brain Prof @alaingoriely.bsky.social shows how mathematical modelling can be used to predict dementia’s progression by unravelling some of its universal features. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social takes us into the intricate world of connections, unraveling the multiscale principles of neuronal path-finding at #ECCN2025 @r3rt0.bsky.social @borrell-lab.bsky.social @zoltan-molnar.bsky.social

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Alan Turing is the star of the next set of student lectures we are showing. But not the Turing of computer science or cryptography, but the Turing of zebra stripes. Ruth Baker is talking mathematical biology and, in particular, pattern formation. Lecture 1: youtu.be/ta3pGHqPKkg

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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

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In this endearing 1923 caricature by his mother, 11-year-old Alan Turing gazes at daisies instead of playing hockey. Decades later, he’d explore phyllotaxis—the spiral patterns in plants—using a 'digital computer', in one of his final works, cut short by his untimely death in 1954.

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Le 29 avril est la date anniversaire du mathématicien Henri Poincaré : voici les médailles de ma collection qui le représentent (et un petit troll)

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Word of the day: RANDOMNESS: comes from the word RANDON. According to the Littré, the venerable French dictionary, "randon" is an old French hunting term, referring to "the impetuous and rapid course of a wild animal around its territory". This term also gave rise to the French word "randonnée".

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🚨REVIEW We have written a review on the emerging topic of nonequilibrium, irreversible dynamics in the brain. Now out on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2504.12188 We introduce the relevant mathematical frameworks, discuss recent interesting results, and look to the future of this research direction!

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Gábor Domokos is best known for the Gömböc. But he hasn't been resting on his mono-monostatic laurels. Together with colleagues including @alaingoriely.bsky.social he has discovered soft cells, nature's mathematics lesson. Public lecture, Wed 30 April, 5pm. Info: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71066

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Supposedly left-handed DNA reverses hair damage in 4 minutes.

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May we introduce to you @lambiotte.bsky.social, Professor of Mathematics here in the University (and cathedral city) of Oxford, well-connected across all networks (hint to watch the film) and great family guy. Except when he's talking to them about maths.

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In-person tickets open: The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia Book via: gres.hm/troubled-brain Prof @alaingoriely.bsky.social shows how mathematical modelling can be used to predict dementia’s progression by unravelling some of its universal features. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

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The Gömböc Mathematicians' minds will wander When they're by the sea. Wondering at the geometry Of everything they see. So let Sam Howison tell a story About pebbles on a beach. And why their points of equilibrium Were how Gömböc came to be.

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🚀 Introducing #PINNverse — a game-changer for parameter estimation in differential equations! 🧠💡 No forward solves. Better accuracy. Robust to noise. Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX... #SciComm #MachineLearning #InverseProblems #PINNs

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Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky

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How do axons “choose” their path during neurodevelopment? Besides chemical cues, axons can respond to the mechanical stiffness of their environment. This behavior is called durotaxis. In this paper, we develop a full multiscale model of axon durotaxis. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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D'Arcy Thompson described himself as 'no skilled mathematician'; yet, he evidently clearly grasped the essence of mathematical modelling in biology, as well as the root of some common misapprehensions about it (On Growth and Form, 1917)

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Modelling cerebrovascular pathology and the spread of amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcA #Alzheimers #biophysics

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One of the most tedious parts of working life is people droning on in meetings and committees. But how do you stop them? Sam Howison has an answer.

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In this paper, we connect local damage to brain vasculature to global progression of toxic proteins leading to neurodegenerative diseases. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... We identify situations where disease initiation can be caused by focal hypoperfusion following vascular injury.

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Our most successful social media film - yes, we confess we have other social media - stars Sam & Jon. They sound like a 60s soul act, but this Sam & Jon are Sam Howison & Jon Chapman & they are the Keepers of the Oxford Mathematics Toy Box. Here they are spinning a disc, specifically Euler's disc.

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Here is a chance to make your voice heard within the university and reduce the administrative burden.

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Martingale: a horse's harness, sailboat rigging, a coat, a prostitute, a double your bet gambling strategy. And, best of all, a mathematical stochastic process and the topic of Jan Obloj's 3rd year course. Here's the first of 5 lectures we're showing. You can bet on it. youtu.be/O6B08mTLsXs

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Fancy some time in Oxford? Full details about the roles in the link: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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🚨PERSPECTIVE We have written a perspective calling for a holistic approach to mathematical modelling for biological systems - it now out on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20511 A thread 🧵

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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense (Truesdell)

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Mathematics, especially geometry, is so embedded in 20th century art that often we don't make the connection. Kathleen Hyndman was an artist who explored that connection through a dazzling series of works that are now on display here in Oxford Mathematics. Read more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/70913

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