Research into insect locomotion is a large and active area in both biology and engineering. From a mathematicians point of view the interest is in both trying to understand the mechanism that has evolved in insects to produce the patterns observed, and to help provide an insight to roboticists as to how to improve control mechanisms for hexapod robots (although…
A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directly from an original copy, not a reproduction. Map of Warwickshire from “The Parliamentary Gazetter of England and Wales” published by A. Fullerton and Co., 1848. From Berkshire Byways: Gazetteers and popular atlases were a speciality of Fullerton & Co. The firm started in…
Just in case RAG week wasn’t already enough of a distraction along comes a Flash Mob! The Flash Mob was through the University’s “Flash Mob Society”, RAG week is organised by the University’s RAG Society. The things I do for charity… The event was also recorded for posterity and posted on YouTube:
A quick series of comments, not designed to be a throrough summary of my experiences but more to reflect on the event. From the 15th to the 28th August 2010 the IGGY Summer U was held in Gaborone, Botswana, hosted by BACS (Botswana Accountancy College), and once again I was fortunate enough to be running a Mathematics course, a revised…
