April 2002 - announce-maths@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

[MathSoc] Reminder for the dogs
by Dónal Dowling 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi all, just to remind you that the trip to Shelbourne park is this Thursday (2nd of May) and that we are meeting in Mulligans of Poolbeg Street between 5:30pm and 6pm. If you have any queries, e-mail me or ring me (087 9342498). Looking forward to seeing you all there Dónal

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[MathSoc] AGM
by ray dunne 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Hello again, The Maths Soc. AGM took place last night. The committee for the coming year was elected. Details as follows... Chairperson:- Noel Fitzpatrick (FM3) Vice-Chairperson:- Danijela Maletic (SSH 1) Secretary:- Ray Dunne (Postgrad) Treasurer:- Karl Heneghan (Postgrad) P.R.O.:- Thomas Waters (Postgrad) Webmaster:- Oisín Ó Cualáin (FM3) Ray.

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[MathSoc] Update on the dogs
by Dónal Dowling 22 Apr '02

22 Apr '02

Hi folks, it looks like our trip to Shelbourne Park will be on Thursday the 2nd of May. As it's going to be too much hassle to organise any kind of special deal (time being the main factor here), it looks like we will be going as regular punters. However, the good news is that it's only 2 euro in with a student card. I'm not sure how much it's going to be for all you non-students (i.e. lecturers) but you all get paid enough money for swanning around the campus and going to talks you pretend to understand. It's recommended that we be at Shelbourne Park for 7pm, so I propose that we meet in Mulligans's of Poolbeg Street between 5:30pm and 6pm, and leave for the dogs around 6:30pm. E-mail me back if you've any enquires. Dónal

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[MathSoc] AGM
by ray dunne 22 Apr '02

22 Apr '02

Hello all, The Maths Soc. AGM will be taking place this wednesday at 6pm in X137. Among other things we will be elcting the new committee for the coming year. Could everyone do their best to show up so that we will have a quorum. Thanks, Ray.

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[MathSoc] The Maths Society is going to the dogs
by Donal.Dowling＠dcu.ie 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

I kid you not folks. I'm trying to organise a trip to Shelbourne Park to watch those little horses (i.e. dogs) run around while everyone gives their money to men who know more about probability than John Appleby could ever teach you. (No offence meant John.)

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[MathSoc] oops...
by ray dunne 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

For some reason my mail program put Brien's address as the reply-to on the last message. Obviously reply to me if you need to. Sorry about that. Ray.

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[MathSoc] The Random Pub Crawl
by ray dunne 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

DCU Maths Society in association with Taking Care of Business (in a Flash) Promotions Presents The Random Pub Crawl Conceived by Dónal Dowling Based on a idea by Paul Erdós Inspired by a drink by Arthur Guinness What is it? Well it's a pub crawl with a difference. The idea is that we have a list of twelve pubs numbered 0-11... 0. Mulligans 1. The International 2. Doyles 3. Nearys 4. Bruxelles 5. O'Neills 6. McDaids 7. The Dawson Lounge 8. The Long Stone 9. Davy Byrnes 10. The Foggy Dew 11. Chaplins and we choose which pub to visit next based on a algorithm which is so pointlessly convoluted that I can't be arsed reproducing it here. Basically it generates a number between 0 and 11 which is added (modulo 12) to the number corresponding to the pub we happen to be in. I think this means that it's a Markov Process. Hopefully we'll have enough sober people to perform the necessary calculations over the whole evening. The starting pub will be McDaids which was chosen at random by the fine upstanding Karl Heneghan. The plan is to meet there at 7:30. We will be leaving said pub at 8:00 to proceed to the next licensed bonder. If anyone is late they will of course have no idea where we are. However you can contact me at 0872966423 or Dónal at 0879342498 to find out. Oh the excitement of it all! When is it? This Thursday April 4th. Why? Because consumption of alcohol might become a thing of the past if people don't support it (!) Hope to see you there. Any queries send me a mail. Ray. "Alcohol, now there's a temporary solution".

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[MathSoc] [Fwd: UCD Mathsoc]
by ray dunne 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

Hello all, Just got this e-mail from the UCD Math Soc. regarding their final meeting of the year. Sounds like an interesting talk and there's a wine reception afterwards too. If anyone wants to go along let me know. Ray. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: UCD Mathsoc Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:34:03 +0100 Resent-From: John Harvey <John.Harvey.2(a)student.ucd.ie> Resent-To: maths(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:33:45 +0100 From: John Harvey <John.Harvey.2(a)student.ucd.ie> Reply-To: John.Harvey.2(a)student.ucd.ie To: cbracken(a)maths.may.ie Sorry for short notice, you may remember that I told you in Cork about our final meeting of the year, taking place this Thursday at 7pm in Th R in the Arts Block. I can arrange to meet you somewhere if you can't find it. We'll have Prof Dress from the University of Bielefeld coming to talk about the applications of mathematics to genetics in the construction of the tree of life, which I think might be something to do with metric spaces. It will be followed by DRINK. Come along if you can, and drag as many people as possible. John.

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[MathSoc] The Random Pub Crawl
by ray dunne 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

DCU Maths Society in association with Taking Care of Business (in a Flash) Promotions Presents The Random Pub Crawl Conceived by Dónal Dowling Based on a idea by Paul Erdós Inspired by a drink by Arthur Guinness What is it? Well it's a pub crawl with a difference. The idea is that we have a list of twelve pubs numbered 0-11... 0. Mulligans 1. The International 2. Doyles 3. Nearys 4. Bruxelles 5. O'Neills 6. McDaids 7. The Dawson Lounge 8. The Long Stone 9. Davy Byrnes 10. The Foggy Dew 11. Chaplins and we choose which pub to visit next based on a algorithm which is so pointlessly convoluted that I can't be arsed reproducing it here. Basically it generates a number between 0 and 11 which is added (modulo 12) to the number corresponding to the pub we happen to be in. I think this means that it's a Markov Process. Hopefully we'll have enough sober people to perform the necessary calculations over the whole evening. The starting pub will be McDaids which was chosen at random by the fine upstanding Karl Heneghan. The plan is to meet there at 7:30. We will be leaving said pub at 8:00 to proceed to the next licensed bonder. If anyone is late they will of course have no idea where we are. However you can contact me at 0872966423 or Dónal at 0879342498 to find out. Oh the excitement of it all! When is it? This Thursday April 4th. Why? Because consumption of alcohol might become a thing of the past if people don't support it (!) Hope to see you there. Any queries send me a mail. Ray. "Alcohol, now there's a temporary solution".

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