LMS internet communication

December 30, 2009

I have been asked to write a short proposal on internet communication for the council of the LMS (London Mathematical Society). More specifically, how the internet can be used to get better communication within the society. I am going to interpret this fairly widely to include communication between the LMS and the general maths community in the UK (given the nature of the internet it is probably more correct to say the world).

An obvious place to start would be with things like RSS feeds and possibly twitter. I plan to put my proposal up here in a few days for more specific comments. However if you have any preliminary comments please post below, or send me an email (edmund.harriss at mathematicians org uk). I am obviously interested to hear from mathematicians, but also from anyone with experience of setting up or using such institutional communication tools.


Natural and Maths Sculpture

December 27, 2009

The beautiful snow here in Iceland has enabled some great shots of the Sculpture System 5 sculpture here.  As the snow was skafrenningur (blowing snow, the Icelanders really do have a lot of terms for snow!), there were also some beautiful wind carved natural sculptures.  A nice exercise in fluid dynamics to understand, or just beautiful.

Carved Mountains

Carved Mountains

Sculpture in the Snow 1

Sculpture in the Snow 1

Detailed wind work

Detailed wind work

Sculpture in the snow 2

Sculpture in the snow 2

Lines of wind

Lines of wind


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