I'm the convener of the "Q Seminars", which is a group of staff, students and ex-students, who meet fortnightly over dinner, to share their enjoyment of mathematics in a relaxed and friendly environment. Each year is devoted to a special theme: - 1998: Galois Theory
- 1999: Probability and Measure Theory
- 2000: the Riemann Hypothesis
- 2001: the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
- 2002: the Continuum Hypothesis
- 2003: Group Representations
- 2004: Celestial Mechanics
- 2005: Nonstandard Analysis
- 2006: Hilbert's Nullstellensatz
- 2007: Quaternions and Octonions
- 2008: Integer Partitions
- 2009: The Mathematics of Voting
- 2010: Google PageRank and the mathematics of the internet
- 2011: Combinatorics of words
- 2012: Arnold’s “Dynamics, Statistics and Projective Geometry of Galois fields”
- 2013:
“Elliptic tales: Curves, Counting and Number Theory”, by Ash and Gross
- 2014: Random Matrices, using Terry Tao's book
- 2015: Graph colouring, using Alexander Soifer's "The Mathematical Coloring Book"
- 2016: "Forcing for mathematicians", by Nik Weaver
- 2017: "A Singular Mathematical Promenade", by Etienne Ghys
- 2018: "Mathematical Omnibus: Thirty Lectures on Classic Mathematics”, by Dmitry Fuchs and Serge Tabachnikov
- 2019: "Reverse Mathematics", by John Stillwell
- 2020/21: Quantum Computing. We started in early 2020 but went into a long break because of covid; we're due to reconvene in late July 2021
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