The new £50 note

The new £50 note is in circulation and I have mine! I’m very happy to see the phyllotaxis features on the design

We are really lucky that our primary school project has been featured in the Bank’s online exhibit too! You can visit it here (we are on the last page)

First paper published

Today I reached a first milestone in my PhD studies. Our paper was submitted in the Journal of Animal Ecology after first submitting it in September 2019. We use mathematics to understand how flocks of long-tailed tits live in home range patterns in the Rivelin Valley, Sheffield.

Link to paper

A summary of the paper can be seen in this twitter thread

Mathematics in primary schools

Recently my colleague Fionntan and I visited some primary schools and asked the students to help us solve Partial Differential Equations numerically to create patterns

These were some tester sessions for a nationwide project we are plotting and we had a great time!

 

You can see some more photographs of us at Springfield Primary in Sheffield here

and a lovely letter of thank you from one of the students here 🙂