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Trinity Research Talk: Dr Kasia Warburton

TrinTalk OnlineJan 12, 2023

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Trinity Research Talk: Professor Peter Sarris

Trinity Research Talk: Professor Peter Sarris

Trinity Research Talk with Trinity Fellow, Professor Peter Sarris (e 2000) on his book Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint. Recorded on 14 December 2023.

Dec 18, 202301:18:03
Trinity Research Talk: Dr Kasia Warburton

Trinity Research Talk: Dr Kasia Warburton

Kasia is an applied mathematician studying the dynamics of ice sheets and glaciers. She originally came up to Trinity to read Maths as an undergraduate and has been drifting closer to Earth Sciences ever since. After finishing her PhD, she moved to Dartmouth College in the US to take up a postdoctoral fellowship. Her work focusses on the flow of water and sediment beneath the ice in Antarctica. She uses ideas from fluid dynamics to understand observations from both present-day and long-extinct glaciers.


This episode was recorded on Wednesday 11 January 2023

Jan 12, 202359:08
Trinity Research Talk: Dr Oliver Janzer

Trinity Research Talk: Dr Oliver Janzer

Dr Oliver Janzer received his PhD in 2020, after completing his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Trinity. He has since been a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich and a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity. His research focuses on Discrete Mathematics, more specifically Graph Theory.

Graphs are mathematical objects that can be used to describe networks such as Facebook. In this talk, Oliver will give a gentle introduction to Graph Theory and discuss one of the most central problems in the field.

Jan 10, 202359:26
Trinity Research Talk: Dr Rita Teixeira da Costa

Trinity Research Talk: Dr Rita Teixeira da Costa

Dr Rita Teixeira da Costa, originally from Portugal, now works in Mathematical Physics sharing her time between the Princeton Gravity Initiative in the US and the Center for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge. During her time at Trinity, Rita has studied several problems arising in Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. Her biggest focus is on the stability properties of black holes, one of the most (in)famous predictions of this theory.

In this talk, Rita explains how mathematical tools from Geometry and Analysis can help us shed some light into these dark objects.

Jan 10, 202301:11:22
Trinity Research Talk: Dr Benjamin Marschall

Trinity Research Talk: Dr Benjamin Marschall

Dr Benjamin Marschall is a Junior Research Fellow working on the history of analytic philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. In his recently completed PhD thesis he tackled these issues by investigating the philosophy of mathematics of the Vienna Circle philosopher Rudolf Carnap. Carnap put forward a radical and iconoclastic position, according to which much of the philosophical work done on the foundations of mathematics is based on misguided assumptions. Unsurprisingly this has led to a divisive reception.  In this talk Benjamin will argue that Carnap’s position is indeed too radical to be viable. Everyone needs to make sense of facts about syntax: if certain axioms and inference rules are accepted, then it is fixed whether a sentence is derivable from these or not. Drawing on an underappreciated argument by the Dutch logician E. W. Beth, we will see that Carnap struggles to meet this important demand.

Jan 10, 202348:43