Maths Society

Talks, Michaelmas term 2011

Tuesday 13 September – Dr Jonathan Swinton: Maths and orphogenesis
Tuesday 4 October – Dr Gillian Williams: Flower Power
Tuesday 8 November – Dr Chris Martin: Mathematics of Medicine
Tuesday 29 November – Mr John Burger: Spherical Triangles

Turing Year
Tuesday 29 November:    Year 10 visit to Bletchley Park
Thursday 23 February:     Year 9: Visit from Cambridge University’s Millenium Maths Project
Science week 2012:

• Professor Kevin Warwick (Reading University) will talk about Artificial Intelligence
• Dr Richard Harvey (UEA) will talk about Computer Science – the Lip Reading Software
• Code Breaking workshop and competition run by the Maths department
• Visit from Bletchley Park outreach
• Friday 23 March: A team of teachers will be running the Hastings half-marathon for LGBT awareness
• Friday 20 April: Tony Fenwick (Chair of LGBT History) will talk about Turing during the awareness week.

Sevenoaks School is running a code breaking competition to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, war time code breaker and computing pioneer. Entry is open to all UK school students from Year 5 to Year 13 at www.codebreakchallenge.co.uk.

We are also entering teams into two major National Competitions:
The National Cipher Challenge: run by Southampton University
Animate12: A software development competition run by Manchester University