During the university term a series of general talks is held at the Institute. These are usually in seminar room 1 on Mondays at 5pm. Tea is served from 4.30 and afterwards an informal reception is held. The talks last approximately one hour and are aimed at a general audience. The ones planned for this term are:
22 January: Professor Simon Donaldson (Oxford) Symplectic geometry and four-dimensional geometry
29 January: Professor Anthony Pearson (Schlumberger and Newton Istitute) Challenges in the dynamics of complex fluids
5 February: Professor Gus Simmons (Sandia National Laboratories and Newton Institute) Share and share alike; the mathematics of distributed capability
12 February: Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer (Newton Institute) Rational solutions of Diophantine equations
19 February: To be arranged
26 February: Professor James Eells (Cambridge) Harmonic and geodesic spaces - for non-specialists
4 March: Dr Frances Kirwan (Oxford) Does geometric quantisation commute with symplectic reduction?
11 March: Dr Sam Howison (Oxford) The rewards of risk: opportunities for mathematics in finance
January 1996