Five talks about trains
My talk at Big MathsJam 2022: five talks about trains
Talks
The unintentionally useful consequences of playing games with maths
A talk about Hamiltonian graphs, leading to the Herschel graph.
Each Edge Peach Pear Plum
I've made another baby, so it's time for another talk about baby maths. Each Peach Pear Plum is a classic picture book for babies, with a beautifully simple rhyming scheme. But I've always wished it was more complete. Join me for an Eulerian tour through fantasy land!
Inclusive e-assessment
A talk given at EAMS 2020. Presented both as a video and a series of slides with accompanying transcript.
Baked sudoku
You can impose on Sudoku puzzles a physical system which works surprisingly well. It has phase transitions, and when you reduce the heat it settles into a solved state!
TMiP 2019 - The Big Internet Math-Off
About the Big Internet Math-Off, a competition I ran on The Aperiodical. Given at Talking Maths in Public.
Zeckendorf cup arithmetic
My 5-minute talk at the big MathsJam conference this weekend was about some stacking cups that my daughter is too young to appreciate. Here’s the really quick version, in just over a minute: …
A clever horse - Theory and applications
Clever Hans was a famous horse who could answer maths questions. I made my own.
π - It's complicated
A talk about calculating π, given at Durham University for π day 2016. Contains lots of animations.
Computability of Bass-Serre structures in the Grzegorczyk hierarchy
A talk about the stuff I was looking at in my aborted PhD.
Zero-knowledge protocols
A talk about zero-knowledge protocols, given at Newcastle's postgraduate forum.
An interesting puzzle from MathsJam
About the 'Princess in a castle' puzzle.
Hands-on Maths, or Here's One I Proved Earlier
A talk about some physical mathematical objects, given at Newcastle's postgraduate forum.
I can't believe it's a universal computer!
A talk about Turing completeness, given at Newcastle's postgraduate forum.
