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Atiyah
The unity of mathematics: a meeting in honour of Sir Michael AtiyahMathematicians from across maths and physics and around the world gathered to celebrate Sir Michael Atiyah.
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Winter is coming: Where are we going?What can we expect from the pandemic this winter and autumn?
On the road to dark energy (with chameleons)We may be a little closer to a direct detection of dark energy thanks to a new result that came about, in a sense, by accident.
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Black Heroes of Mathematics 2021This inspiring conference featured speakers from Africa, the US, the Caribbean and the UK. Here are some highlights.
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Keeping people safe at large eventsHow can sporting events, concerts, or festivals be kept safe in the face of rising COVID-19 infections?
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Maths in a Minute: Category theoryA quick introduction to an abstract concept that's useful in anything from genetics to cosmology.
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Maths in a Minute: The wagon wheel effectHave you ever noticed the strange phenomenon of wheels appearing to move backwards while the vehicle is moving forwards? Aadit Jain explains why!
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Opening the black boxThe organisers of a new INI programme explain why we need to know more about the maths behind machine learning and deep neural networks.
Lovelace
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!We celebrate with some of our friends, all women doing pioneering work using machine learning in a wide range of applications.
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Maths in a minute: Semi-supervised machine learningMachine learning started with supervised learning and us providing all the training materials, but we are finding ways for algorithms to learn with far fewer resources.
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Mathematics without bordersThe International Mathematical Union has celebrated its 100th anniversary with a conference entitled Mathematics without borders.
Maths in a minute: The prime number theoremA quick look at one of the most important theorems in number theory.