THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS
AND ITS APPLICATIONS

West of England Branch

Forthcoming events

In addition to these there are a number of other talks and meetings planned throughout the region.

As a relatively new reformed branch, we are keen to host events in other venues throughout the region, and are currently exploring the possibility of hosting a joint venture with industrial partners in the Swindon area.

Also if there are any members in the Dorset and Southampton area who would be keen to help host an event, please contact the Chair of the WoE branch, Mr Garrod Musto, email : GJM@kingswood.bath.sch.uk

• Tuesday 16 Mar 2010 18:30-20:00
  Joint IMA - Wiltshire BCS Event
  How much Mathematics does an Internet user use?
  Speaker: Professor James Davenport

Previous Events

• Monday 15 February 2010, 7pm
  Hollywood's Hippest Mathematics: random matrices and Riemann zeros a talk by Nina Snaith

Joint meeting with the British Science Association Bristol & Bath Branch
Come and find out how physicists helped answer a hundred year old question about prime numbers and how this features in a major Hollywood movie.

Nina Snaith is Reader and EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.

The meeting will be held at Folk House, 40a Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JG

• Wednesday 27 January 2010
  Phantom Traffic Jams a talk by R Eddie Wilson

The meeting will be held at Room 2Q48, Q block, Frenchay Campus, UWE, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol.

• 29 September 2009 5.45pm
  Informal buffet supper followed by a talk by Professor Michael Proctor The Unquiet Sun and Branch AGM
  A Fellow of the IMA and a Kingswood parent, Michael Proctor is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and Vice-Master of Trinity College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Chairman of Governors at Mill Hill School. Apart from mathematics, his interests include rowing and gardening and (according to his family) fiddling about with computers.

The meeting will be held at Kingswood School, Bath, BA1 5RG

• 27 April 2009 7pm
  Joint meeting of  West of England IMA branch with the British Association for the Advancement of Science and St Mary Redcliffe Journey into Science.
  The meeting will be held at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Redcliffe Way, Bristol

Mathematics & Modern Cryptography - Mathematics and Security in the Digital Age
By Richard Pinch (Cheltenham).

There will be a £1 entry fee to cover costs.

• 21 January 2009 6pm
  Joint meeting of the West of England IMA branch with WORDS, the regional OR society branch
  at UWE, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol.

Prof Jeff Griffiths:                  Practical Applications of Mathematics

Prof Griffiths was President of the UK Operational Research Society for a two year period starting January 2006. He is the UK representative on the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), a group consisting of 47 nations.

Arrival time of 17.00 when drinks and light refreshments will be served.
The talk will be 18.00-19.00, location 2P50, P block, Frenchay Campus.
Direction  and map of Frenchay Campus can be downloaded from http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aboutUWE/campus/

10/3/10 came involved in a number of projects which appear to have little connection with mathematics.  A selection from some of the following projects will be considered in detail.
The Suez Canal, Pedestrian Crossings, Treatment effects in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, The Severn Bridge, Intensive Care Facilities in a Large Teaching Hospital, The Rapid Transit System at Gatwick Airport, Freight Traffic at the Channel Tunnel.

• 8 October 2008  6pm
  Presidential Address
  It will be held at Pugsley Lecture Theatre, Queens Building Bristol University

6.00 to 6.30pm  informal gathering with refreshments.
6.30 to 7.00pm  Discussion about the proposed merger between IMA and LMS.
7.00pm to 8.00pm Presidential address

Access to Queens Building, Faculty of Engineering, is indicated in the maps below. Queens Building is no.20 on the map. It can be approached from both ends on foot but only from University Walk (the NW end) by car. There is no problem in parking a car in U/Walk after 17.00.