Just booked for the Annual MathsJam Gathering in November! www.mathsjam.com/gathering/uk/

Spaces are filling up quickly for this year's MathsJam Gathering! Still a few early-bird spaces available, so grab your spot now while you can! More info and booking details at mathsjam.com/gatheri...

What can you expect if you attend the MathsJam UK Gathering? Interesting maths talks, puzzles, competitions, toys, games and art, as well as cool people, great conversations and serendipitous occurrences! Book now at mathsjam.com/gatheri...

If you’re already booked for the Gathering, you should have had an email including a link to submit your talk - the deadline is 19th October. More info on talks at mathsjam.com/gatheri...

Want to know what the MathsJam Gathering is like? This video has past attendees sharing their favourite bits! Book now at mathsjam.com/gatheri... youtube.com/watch?v=...

Tickets for the MathsJam UK Gathering cost just £210 for a full weekend, including all sessions and food (or £350 for two sharing), with further discounts for unwaged, and for the first 101 early birds to book. Book now by visiting mathsjam.com/gatheri...

Want to join the MathsJam UK Gathering remotely? That’s also an option, with tickets only £20. Book now by visiting mathsjam.com/gatheri...

For this year's MathsJam UK Gathering, the early-bird cutoff is a number of tickets - the first 101 people to book will get a discount, so don't miss out! The Graph of Doom is already looking quite steep, and more than half the early-bird spaces are gone already...

Last year’s MathsJam UK Gathering talk topics included Nintendo Wii games, paper size ratios and knitted monads. See the full list of previous talks in our archive: www.mathsjam.com/gat...

The UK MathsJam Gathering includes four sessions of lightning talks sharing maths puzzles and interesting things, generous coffee breaks, evening table activities, a bake-off, a sing-a-long, two lunches and dinner. Join other maths fans for a recreational maths extravaganza! mathsjam.com/gatheri...

Want to know what MathsJam is like? We made this video of some past attendees sharing their favourite things about MathsJam - book now at mathsjam.com/gatheri... youtube.com/watch?v=...

Booking is now open for the 2026 MathsJam UK Gathering! Join us in Kents Hill on 14-15 November for a weekend of recreational maths, meeting cool people and sharing interesting maths! Details at mathsjam.com/gathering/uk

Did you know we also have a MathsJam annual gathering in Oceania? The Oceania MathsJam Gathering (OMG) has shared this video of their 2025 public keynote talk, a fun talk on charts and data visualisation from Dr. Christoph Bartneck of Canterbury University, NZ:

OMG25 Keynote talk: Information Is Beautiful by Dr Christoph Bartneck

Abstract: In an age of fake news and misinformation, data visualisation has become essential for building bridges between experts and the general public. Creating not only truthful, but also functional, beautiful, and insightful visualisation is an art form. For far too long have we been plagued by,

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Attendees of this year's Big MathsJam UK Gathering should now have had a post-event email with links to session recordings and some follow-up info. We hope you all had a lovely time, and make sure you're on our mailing list to get the details for 2026! mathsj.am/ukg-mailin...

Arrived at #MathsJam on Friday to find my front door key tangled up in my keyring. Many mathematicians (>10) had a go at untangling it. No go. Stupid o'clock Sunday morning, heading to check out as I had to miss the final day, I pull my keys from my back pocket. All untangled. #MathsJam trolling me.

I wanted to make a poster about this for the new Big #MathsJam feature, but I don't have a printer, so:

Also of potential interest to Big #MathsJam folk & other maths fans: don't forget to submit recent maths stuff ready for December's Carnival of Mathematics: aperiodical.com/carnival-of-...

Carnival of Mathematics

The Carnival of Mathematics is a monthly blogging round up hosted by a different blog each month. The Aperiodical will be taking responsibility for organising a host each month, and links to the mo…

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Big #MathsJam -ers who took the train home today and are also movie fans might have recognised the railway station building from 1987's Superman IV. Various other buildings in CMK were used as locations for bits of Metropolis in the movie. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Superman IV film recreated in Milton Keynes 30 years on - BBC News

An artist recreates 10 minutes of the 1986 film Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, where it was originally shot in Milton Keynes.

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Martin Whitworth says passports are size A6.5 #mathsjam

The real winner of my #mathsjam competition is me, who got all these incredible frog pictures!

Fabulous weekend at Big #Mathsjam, sorry to have to leave before the end. I love the little bubble of maths joy I get to be part of.

@bigmathsjam.bsky.social is officially over! Many thanks to everyone who organised, contributed to it, maintained the Gather town remote space etc. #mathsjam #remoters 👏👏👏

Lovely weekend at #mathsJam . Thanks to all those who organised and those who gave talks. Hope to see you all next year! Safe journey home everyone.

Another excellent Big #MathsJam. Somehow I'm less tired than usual. Maybe it's the travel that does it‽

Had a lovely weekend at @bigmathsjam.bsky.social getting lots of mathsy inspiration from all the best people, but I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't also glad to be going home to destimulate!! Thanks so much to Colin Katie, Scroggs and everyone else who helped for a brilliant time! #Mathsjam

And we're all done with the MathsJam UK Gathering for 2025! Thanks to everyone who came along and joined us - in-person or online - and who gave talks, volunteered to help or brought along interesting maths to share! Hope to see you all again next time!

To start the final set of talks at #mathsjam, Vanessa Madu sharred her explorations of sequences of consecutive odd semiprimes. You can read her blog post about it here:

And to finish this session, we've announced the winners of the competitions - the bakeoff winners are now listed on the cakes page: mathsjam.com/gatheri...

Starting the penultimate session of #mathsjam 2025, Kristin Ohlmann showed us how the digits of pi and tau can be used to improve visibility of her unicycle. And she's actually brought it with her to MathsJam! Here's her Python code:

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Cloud Storage - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

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Why I'm not at Big Maths Jam in person ❤️