[compsoc-announce] Week 7

[Ken Kawamoto]

Hi all,

There are no more talks for the rest of the term.
We have the termly general meeting this week:

Termly General Meeting
Wednesday 23 Nov 19:00, The Mitre B&R (High st.)
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As usual, Compsoc's Termly General Meeting provides an opportunity  
for the members to speak to the committee directly and find out about  
the running of the society. Followed by a traditional CompSoc curry  
at a nearby Indian restaurant.

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Here's something from the Invariants which may be of interest to people.

the Invariants, the OU Maths society, are holding a speaker event on  
Tuesday
evening of 7th week, which should be of great interest to any  
computer scientist
and everybody who likes beautiful fractal pictures.

Title: "Indra's Pearls"
Abstract:
In Buddhist mythology, the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls,  
each of
which was reflected in its neighbours, so that the whole Universe was  
mirrored
in each pearl. Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century  
geometers,
studied iterations of reflections or inversions, whose interactions  
are the
mathematical embodiment of this idea. In the 1980's, David Mumford,  
David Wright
and I embarked on the first computer exploration of Klein's ideas,  
recreating
some of his remarkable pictures and finding further compelling  
fractal images of
their own. This talk, illustrated with many pictures, will be a short
introduction to our book "Indra's Pearls", published by CUP.

Time: Tuesday evening, 8.15 prompt. Doors open at 8.
Place Maths Institute on the corner of St. Giles and Keble Road

Entry is free for members and 2 Pounds for non-members. Refreshments  
will be
provided after the talk.

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Have a great week!

Ken