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Events

Monday May 12, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 20:20

The study of Diophantine Equations, that is, equations to which we want to find integer solutions, is one of the oldest and most fruitful areas of number theory. Many famous problems, such as Fermat's Last Theorem or Catalan's Conjecture ("the only two consecutive powers are 8 and 9") are examples of Diophantine equations which have sparked great interest and, in some cases, entire areas of mathematics which have been developed in order to solve them (ring theory and elliptic curves being two notable examples).

Start: 21:00
Start: 12 May 2008 - 9:00pm
End: 13 May 2008 - 1:00am

Next Monday the WMS is having a social in Top B. There will be lots of frivolous fun, frolics, dangerous drinks mayhem, and hats...

For early birds, we will be up in the grad from 8:30 and heading down to top b at 9. We'll grab some seats upstairs. Come say hi.

Tuesday May 13, 2008
End: 01:00
Start: 12 May 2008 - 9:00pm
End: 13 May 2008 - 1:00am

Next Monday the WMS is having a social in Top B. There will be lots of frivolous fun, frolics, dangerous drinks mayhem, and hats...

For early birds, we will be up in the grad from 8:30 and heading down to top b at 9. We'll grab some seats upstairs. Come say hi.

Thursday May 15, 2008
Start: 12:30
End: 13:30

The Warwick Mathematics Society will be selling revision guides for the following first year modules on Thursday between 12:30pm and 1:30pm in the Street:

MA106 Linear Algebra
MA131B Analysis II
MA133 Differential Equations
MA134 Geometry and Motion
ST111/2 Probability A & B

They're free for members of the society and £1 each for non-members. If you can't make it between 12:30 and 1:30, we'll be in the undergraduate workroom until about 4pm for Revision Cafe.

Start: 19:30
End: 21:00

The product of a burly scandanavian with a dream of classifying dynamics, lie groups are one of mathematics' great success stories- completely classified and packaged neatly, these elegant structures now find use in a myriad of research areas; from theoretical physics (lying at the heart of Lisi's G.U.T., as well as tacitly in much and most of quantum mechanics) to the classification of differentiable structures on 4-manifolds (famously used by Donaldson to prove that there are infinitely many inequivalent differentiable structures on $ \mathbb{R}^4 $, despite there being just one topology) to t

Tuesday May 20, 2008
Start: 14:00
End: 16:00

The WMS revision groups are a chance for people who are struggling to
understand a module to meet in a reasonably interactive setting, led by an
undergraduate who has taked the exam in said module.

These are designed to be a little bit more informal than revision lectures
given by academics, and although the people leading them will not be quite
as knowledgable as the lecturer, they will be in a better position to
remember what it is like to not understand it all.

Wednesday May 21, 2008
Start: 13:00
End: 14:00

The WMS revision groups are a chance for people who are struggling to
understand a module to meet in a reasonably interactive setting, led by an
undergraduate who has taked the exam in said module.

These are designed to be a little bit more informal than revision lectures
given by academics, and although the people leading them will not be quite
as knowledgable as the lecturer, they will be in a better position to
remember what it is like to not understand it all.

Start: 16:00
End: 17:00

The WMS revision groups are a chance for people who are struggling to
understand a module to meet in a reasonably interactive setting, led by an
undergraduate who has taked the exam in said module.

These are designed to be a little bit more informal than revision lectures
given by academics, and although the people leading them will not be quite
as knowledgable as the lecturer, they will be in a better position to
remember what it is like to not understand it all.

Start: 17:00
End: 18:00

The WMS revision groups are a chance for people who are struggling to
understand a module to meet in a reasonably interactive setting, led by an
undergraduate who has taked the exam in said module.

These are designed to be a little bit more informal than revision lectures
given by academics, and although the people leading them will not be quite
as knowledgable as the lecturer, they will be in a better position to
remember what it is like to not understand it all.

Friday May 23, 2008
Start: 14:00
End: 17:00

The WMS revision groups are a chance for people who are struggling to
understand a module to meet in a reasonably interactive setting, led by an
undergraduate who has taked the exam in said module.

These are designed to be a little bit more informal than revision lectures
given by academics, and although the people leading them will not be quite
as knowledgable as the lecturer, they will be in a better position to
remember what it is like to not understand it all.

Wednesday May 28, 2008
Start: 13:00
End: 14:00

The WMS revision groups are a chance for people who are struggling to
understand a module to meet in a reasonably interactive setting, led by an
undergraduate who has taked the exam in said module.

These are designed to be a little bit more informal than revision lectures
given by academics, and although the people leading them will not be quite
as knowledgable as the lecturer, they will be in a better position to
remember what it is like to not understand it all.

Start: 14:00
End: 15:00

The WMS revision groups are a chance for people who are struggling to
understand a module to meet in a reasonably interactive setting, led by an
undergraduate who has taked the exam in said module.

These are designed to be a little bit more informal than revision lectures
given by academics, and although the people leading them will not be quite
as knowledgable as the lecturer, they will be in a better position to
remember what it is like to not understand it all.

Thursday May 29, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00

Few theorems in the history of mathematics have acquired the almost legendary status that quadratic reciprocity holds in number theory. First conjectured by Euler, it provides a striking relationship between the primes in terms of the solvability of certain quadratic congruences and has become a cornerstone of elementary number theory. The great Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first one to provide a valid proof and liked it so much that he called it his "aureum theorema" (golden theorem) and provided no less than 8 different proofs during his lifetime.

Friday May 30, 2008
Start: 15:00
End: 17:00

Your last chance to pick up a revision guide before your exam starts.

We will be in the Street (Maths Block) in the usual place from 3pm till 5pm.

Still free for members and one pound each for non-members.

Unfortunately we've ran out of Probability A/B, but they should be available from the website soon.

Tell your friends.