I gave the Number Theory Seminar at the Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo on Thursday, September 8th. My slides are available in presentation or handout form (except the latter is missing the interlacing demo which didn’t render into individual slides correctly). I used this talk as an opportunity to present some results that …
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I’d recently ordered Ben Fry‘s Visualizing Data and started reading it this weekend; just a few pages in I learnt how to import data to processing and a project was born… Since New Orleans I’ve been increasingly interested in mathematical art, and whether in particular I could create something interactive. Here’s what I’ve come up …
A crochet Lorenz Manifold, as spotted in the Changing Perspectives exhibition in Bristol.
Online access to my first paper.
I’m continuing to tour my Cyclotomic Matrices and Graphs talk; today I presented it at the University of Warwick. Here’s the latest and greatest iteration of the slides, mostly unchanged except for the current state of the computer search for minimal noncyclotomics of at most ten vertices. I’d hoped to finish that this month, but …
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I spent last week in New Orleans for the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2011. I’d made a rather last minute booking after noticing a couple of sessions could be useful, and hadn’t quite grasped the scale of the event. I’d normally think of 200 mathematicians as a large gathering, but the JMM had over six thousand …
I’m speaking this afternoon at the Heilbronn Seminar in Bristol: my slides are available here. This is essentially (up to permutation, and modulo errors!) the talk I gave at Royal Holloway in October, although the last few slides have been replaced with a result I’ve found since then. I try to avoid technical details of …
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Mathematical tourism in Bristol: the chaotic pendulum.
Downloadable copy of my thesis.
Today I successfully defended my PhD thesis, Cyclotomic Matrices and Graphs. There are of course numerous corrections to be made, but I hope to have those done within the next couple of weeks and to make the final version available online. Until then, here is the abstract: We generalise the study of cyclotomic matrices – …