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.) ------------------------------------------------ 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.

==== 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