Events

As a community we organise events, where we share our love of knowledge and hopefully have a bit of fun as well.

The venues are virtual spaces created in Roblox, which is used for 3D interaction and virtual blackboards and slides. The event audio is via the TRS Discord in a voice channel that you will find advertised with the event below. To join you need to create a Roblox account and install Discord, see the instructions. If you want the experience to work correctly, you should also register your Roblox username in Discord as detailed in the instructions (this allows Discord to transition you automatically between location-specific voice channels).

Past Events

Some events involve challenges.

• 23/9/2021 Energy event: on renewable energy and climate change. There is a bonus video from the end of the event, containing a discussion of what young people (and mathematicians in particular) can do about climate change and making the future awesome, and of the minigames in between talks. The talks:
  • Heath Winning “Climate action is a young person’s game” plus Coin Run challenge (video).
  • Adam Dorr “Rethinking Climate Change”.
  • Milad Mousavian and Bruce Robertson “Fossil-based Powerplants seem to be more profitable than they actually are!” (video).
• 12/8/2021: Festival of Mathematics in LC002 (the Research Agora), see the festival page for the schedule and videos of some talks.
• 5/3/2021: Stories from Zhuangzi by Ziling Ye {#4A, #4B}. Challenge inspired by Leibniz’s observation about binary arithmetic and bagua.
• 26/2/2021: Community builder event. We visited Kuroyikijima and the M.U.M.S room and then metatute: Calculus wars where we discussed running tutorials in Roblox (video).
• 19/2/2021: Adam Dorr on “Rethinking Energy” {#3A, #3B} with a pre-event tutorial on the logistic equation (video). The main event was not recorded but you can read the report it was based on and watch the associated video. The post-event challenges and question time were recorded (video).
• 12/2/2021: Community builder event. This started with an introduction to Weiqi on the new Weiqi boards, followed by a livestream on how to add metauni objects (the Whiteboard, Viewer and Weiqi board) to your Roblox world. BP then explained how to use the new metauni admin features to kick/ban users and manage usage of the whiteboards (video).
• 5/2/2021: Lucas Cantor on music (video) and a pre-event tutorial on the Chinese Remainder Theorem and its connections to music by Will Troiani (video) {#2A, #2B}.
• 29/1/2021: Build Your Own Node event. We introduced the Roblox + Discord setup and walked people through these instructions (video). After that was a livestream introducing Roblox Studio (video).
• 22/1/2021: Daniel Murfet on deep learning theory (video, lecture notes, slides) {#1A, #1B}.

Preparing Events

• All images or audio files that are to be part of an event must pass through the Roblox moderation process (see the rules) and you should allow three or four days for this (usually it is much faster, often within hours, but there is a lot of variance).

• Usually I export PDFs or slides to PNG using pdf2png.