NAGTY (Mathematics), Durham, 2004


Topics/time/who does what?/documents

Topic Time Who prepares? Relevant documents (ps format) Relevant documents (pdf format)
Syllabus - - syllabus syllabus
Cryptography 1.5 days Rob, Mark, Dan cryptography cryptography
Graphs/mazes .5 day Werner, Rob, Dan maze maze
Probability (with random walks and Markov chains) 1.5 days Lisa, Andrew (with help from Iain) probability probability
Recurrence relations/complex arithmetic/chaos 2.5 days James, David Recurrence relations and chaos Recurrence relations and chaos
Perspective/conic sections 2 days Werner, Jamie perspective and conic sections and picture for conic sections perspective and conic sections and picture for conic sections
Day trip 1 day Rob, Werner railway museum handout and maze handout railway museum handout and maze handout


A few points


Schedule (approximate/tentative)

Day Morning Afternoon
Monday 9 Perspective I (Peter, Werner, Jamie, ?) Graphs, Mazes (Peter, Werner, Rob, Dan)
Tuesday 10 Probability (Peter, Werner, Andrew, Lisa) Perspective II (Peter, Werner, Jamie, ?)
Wednesday 11 Random walks (Peter, Werner, Andrew, Lisa) Conic sections I (Peter, Werner, Jamie, ?)
Thursday 12 day trip (Peter, Werner, Rob, Lisa)
Friday 13 Conic sections II (Peter, Werner, Jamie, ?) Markov chains (Peter, Werner, Andrew, Lisa)
Saturday 14 Extension session I (until 12:00) (Peter, Werner, James, ?) -
Monday 16 Recurrence relations I (Peter, Rob, James, David) Complex Arithmetic (Peter, Rob, James, David)
Tuesday 17 Cryptography I (Peter, Rob, Dan, ?) Recurrence relations II (Peter, Rob, James, David)
Wednesday 18 Cryptography II (Peter, Rob, Dan, ?) Chaos I (Peter, Rob, James, David)
Thursday 19 Cryptography III (Peter, Rob, Dan, ?) Chaos II (Peter, Rob, James, David)
Friday 20 ? (Peter, Rob, ?, ?) Extension session II (Peter, Rob, ?, ?)

Email addresses

Name Email address
James Blowey j.f.blowey@durham.ac.uk
Mark Colman m.a.colman@durham.ac.uk
Dan Cox d.l.cox@durham.ac.uk
Werner Hoffmann werner.hoffmann@durham.ac.uk
Rob de Jeu rob.de-jeu@durham.ac.uk
David Leonard david.leonard@durham.ac.uk
Jamie Lowrie j.b.lowrie@durham.ac.uk
Peter Mitchell pm@meikleriggs.co.uk
Lisa Muller l.j.muller@durham.ac.uk
Andrew Wade a.r.wade@durham.ac.uk
Iain MacPhee (a bit...) i.m.macphee@durham.ac.uk


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