(above) An unexpected appearance by Lieutenant Commander Data in Professor Mark Ablowitz (Colorado)'s Rothschild talk "Extraordinary waves and math: from beaches to photonics", see item #3 below.

INI NEWS BULLETIN
November 2019

Dear friends, associates and supporters of INI,

Welcome to the November 2019 edition of our monthly news bulletin. In this release you will find the following eight stories:

1. "ON THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL JOY": an inspirational talk by Professor Liz Mansfield (Kent), Thursday 28 November, 4-5pm.
2. NEW PROGRAMMES ANNOUNCED: three fascinating new six-month programmes have been approved to take place at INI in 2021-2022, read the details here.
3. "EXTRAORDINARY WAVES AND MATH": watch Professor Mark Ablowitz (Colorado)'s stimulating Rothschild Lecture from 14 November.
4. PODCAST OF THE MONTH: Professor Liz Mansfield speaks to INI about balance, diversity and the reality of asking for "a lot of money, and a lot of time".
5. DEPUTY-DIRECTOR BRINGS "BIG IDEAS" TO WHITEMOOR PRISON: Dr Christie Marr brought Luhn’s Algorithm and more to 15 Whitemoor inmates.
6. "ADVENT BLACKBOARDS" TO LAUNCH IN DECEMBER: An exciting (and festive) month lies ahead on INI's social media streams.
7. COMPLEX ANALYSIS WORKSHOP VIDEOS LIVE: Recordings of talks from "Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications" are now available to view online.
8. FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS/TALKS/EVENTS: a guide to the coming month at INI.

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(above) INI commemorated Michel Rolle (1652-1719) on the 8 November anniversary of his death via its social media streams.

1. "ON THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL JOY": an inspirational talk by Professor Liz Mansfield (Kent), Thursday 28 November, 4-5pm.

(above) Professor Liz Mansfield of the University of Kent.

The Institute is proud to be hosting the talk "On the nature of mathematical joy" by "Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations" programme organiser Professor Liz Mansfield.

Aimed at a general audience the talk aims to explore "the seven levels of mathematical joy" based on Professor Mansfield's mathematical travels.

It takes place TODAY (Thursday 28 November 2019) in INI's Seminar Room 1 from 4-5pm. All are welcome to attend. It will be available to view afterwards via the link below.

2. NEW PROGRAMMES ANNOUNCED: three fascinating new six-month programmes have been approved to take place at INI in 2021-2022, read the details here.

INI's Scientific Steering and Management Committees have this month approved three new six-month programmes. More details of each will follow on www.newton.ac.uk in due course. The titles, dates and proposers of each programme follow below. The Institute would like to congratulate all those involved and look forward with great anticipation to the research and collaborations to come.

> Mathematics of deep learning [MDL]
July - December 2021
Professor Gitta Kutyniok, Professor Peter Bartlett, Professor Anders Hansen, Professor Arnulf Jentzen, Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

> Frontiers in kinetic theory: connecting microscopic to macroscopic scales [FKT]
January - June 2022
Dr Jingwei Hu, Dr Jacob Bedrossian, Dr José A. Carrillo, Dr Clément Mouhot

> Mathematical aspects of turbulence: where do we stand? [MAT]
January - June 2022
Professor John Gibbon, Professor Charles R. Doering, Professor Dan Henningson, Professor Rich Kerswell, Professor Anna Laura Mazzucato, Professor Beverley McKeon, Professor Rahul Pandit, Professor Leslie Smith, Professor Edriss Titi, Professor Steven Tobias

3. "EXTRAORDINARY WAVES AND MATH": watch Professor Mark Ablowitz (Colorado)'s stimulating Rothschild Lecture from 14 November.

On Thursday 14 November Professor Mark Ablowitz, Rothschild Fellow for the "Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations" programme, delivered his keynote talk "Extraordinary waves and math: from beaches to photonics".

This lively, insightful and entertaining talk is now available to view in full via the link below.

Waves are fascinating. They are of keen interest across the realm of science and mathematics and they often elicit excitement in the general public.  There is a class of extraordinary localized waves, called solitary waves, that were first observed 185 years ago. More recently certain solitary waves, often called solitons, have been found to possess numerous special properties. This lecture will discuss the history of these waves, and will indicate why mathematics played a crucial role in both historical and modern developments. Some applications will be described including as time permits: water waves, rogue waves, photonics and cellular automata. The discussion will be general; it will "leave almost all equations behind".

4. PODCAST OF THE MONTH: Professor Liz Mansfield speaks to INI about balance, diversity and the reality of asking for "a lot of money, and a lot of time".

In Episode #19 of the INI podcast, Dan Aspel speaks to Professor Liz Mansfield (Kent) about the "Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations" programme, its inception, aims and essential need for balance and diversity within higher mathematics.

Please click the green button below to listen to the podcast, search for "Isaac Newton Institute" on your app of choice or find us on iTunes here.

00:37 – Introduction, a female “first” at the University of Kent
01:25 – Proposing and being part of the GCS programme
05:10 – The “recursive” application of pure mathematics to applied mathematics
07:10 – The reality of proposing and running an INI programme (“asking for a lot of money and a lot of time”)
08:49 – The fellow organisers, being here “with five friends”
11:00 – “A large topic with so many possibilities”
12:28 – Life in Cambridge on a six-month programme
13:20 – Gender balance within the programme and within mathematics as a whole, the need for continuing, positive action
15:30 – Invisibility, implicit bias, a role as a senior female mathematician
18:51 – Intellectual diversity and the possibilities of the programme, a privilege to be part of it

5. DEPUTY-DIRECTOR BRINGS "BIG IDEAS" TO WHITEMOOR PRISON: Dr Christie Marr brought Luhn’s Algorithm and more to 15 Whitemoor inmates.

(above) Dr Christie Marr

On Wednesday 20 November, INI Deputy Director Dr Christie Marr visited Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire to deliver the talk "Luhn’s Algorithm and other mathematical tricks in computer science".

Given to a small and hotly-contested audience of just 15 of the prison's inmates, Dr Marr's talk was part of the "Big Ideas" series organised by Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology (IoC). Operated as part of the IoC's "Learning Together" initiative, the scheme aims to bring one-off lectures by leading academics to prison communities in order to provide them with intellectual stimulation and to widen their perceptions of the outside world.

Feedback from the organisers following the event was effusive: "It was just beautiful to watch the heads go from hanging low to rising up, sitting on the edge of their seats, standing up and taking part… even such keenness as to be shouting out maths answers!".

Dr Marr and the Institute would like to thank the IoC for offering this unique and meaningful opportunity.

6. "ADVENT BLACKBOARDS" TO LAUNCH IN DECEMBER: An exciting (and festive) month lies ahead on INI's social media streams.

Following on from the success of the Institute's "Summer Maths Puzzles" initiative, which garnered over 15,000 unique page views throughout August 2019, we are pleased to announce that December will bring with it an "Advent Blackboards" project.

We will be posting famous or otherwise iconic equations, theorems, laws and conjectures from throughout the history of mathematics onto the Institute's social media streams on every day leading up to 25 December. Keep your eyes on www.newton.ac.uk as well as our Facebook, Twitter (and occasionally Instagram) feeds throughout the next month.

7. COMPLEX ANALYSIS WORKSHOP VIDEOS LIVE: Recordings of talks from "Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications" are now available to view online.

The "Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications" workshop took place at INI between 28 October and 1 November 2019. The second of three such workshops in the "Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations" programme, a total of 24 talks were delivered of which 22 are now available to view online.

To stream them now, please click the image or button below.

8. FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS/TALKS/EVENTS: looking forward to the month ahead at INI.

> Newton Gateway Workshop: Advances in Numerical Modelling 3 December 2019
 

> Workshop: Computational complex analysis 9-13 December 2019
 

As a reminder: the selection of non-workshop-based seminars undertaken as part of the current programmes can be found - and in most cases live streamed or viewed after the event - via the seminars link below.

See all forthcoming INI events here: https://www.newton.ac.uk/events/calendar

See all forthcoming INI seminars here: https://www.newton.ac.uk/events/seminars