An exciting public event exploring the link between maths and the world in London this 28 September with star speakers organised by the New Scientist newscientist.com/science-events…

A great opportunity to do top brain research at Oxford

Today at 6pm: The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence Watch live: gres.hm/big-brain For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special about the human brain. Prof Alain Goriely asks, how do we approach this problem from a mathematical standpoint? Oxford Mathematics

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🚨 NEW PAPER! Very happy to see my first PhD publication in print! We show how the structure of a directed network drives its dynamics out of equilibrium: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1… with Malbor Asllani, G. Deco, M. Kringelbach, Alain Goriely and Renaud Lambiotte

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Mathematicians recently turned to nature to find a new kind of tiling: “soft cells” that stack and repeat to fill 3D space. nature.com/articles/d4158… 🧵 1/6

One of the most common criticisms of our social media films, other than 'I hate maths', is 'no offence bru, but what use is this?' Sometimes the answer is 'none whatsoever', but in this case it does at least allow grown-ups to play with their toys.

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Are you ready to learn? All is quiet in Lecture Theatre 1. But at 9am on Monday, 200 students will be there, about to start their mathematical life in Oxford.

In-person tickets open: The Convoluted Brain: Wrinkles and Folds Book: gres.hm/convoluted-bra… The human #brain has a very distinct and complex appearance with valleys & ridges folding over themselves. Prof Alain Goriely asks how does #geometry play a role? Oxford Mathematics #maths

Maybe every maths classroom should have a box of mathematical toys & at the start of each lesson a toy's picked out & played with & discussed for five minutes before everyone returns to fractions & trigonometry. Might also work for company meeting rooms. Meanwhile, Sam Howison.

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I spent a few hours trying to find an estimate for the number of stars in our galaxy. Plenty of 'popular science' numbers (between 100-400 billion with no rationale), but I could not find any published scientific estimate. Does anyone know a reference?

The Hooke and Titchmarsh Fellowships are our most prestigious fellowships, allowing up to eight mathematicians the freedom to pursue their interest and ideas in pure and applied mathematics. Find out more via our vacancies page: maths.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

I’ll mostly stop posting on X. Here is one last scientific fact: The reason the sky appears blue is because sunlight is scattered by molecules in the atmosphere. Blue light, with shorter wavelengths, scatters more than red light