Events

There will be a special lecture to launch the 2009/10 session on Wednesday 7th October 2009 in the afternoon entitled
Two by two
Prof Sir Michael Berry FRS (Bristol)
A tutorial account of families of 2x2 matrices labelled by several parameters will concentrate on the neighbourhood of degeneracies. The emphasis will be on the differences between hermitian and nonhermitian matrices, considered geometric. Physical phenomena in optics and atomic physics where such degeneracies play a crucial role will be described. This introductory talk by Prof Berry will serves to launch the MAGIC courses for 2009/10 and can be followed by a local get-together.

Individual sites may have their own introduction starting from 3.30PM
At 4.00PM there will be a welcome speech delivered from UCL by:

Lesley Thompson (EPSRC)

This will be followed by a mathematical lecture delivered from Manchester:

Polynomial interpolation in a million points

Professor Nick Trefethen
(University of Oxford)

After the lecture, there will be social events at all sites, shared via the Access Grid.