Talkdust, episode 2

Chalkdust

31 January 2019

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After taking a month off in December, it’s time for episode two of Talkdust!

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The presenters of this episode of Talkdust are Belgin Seymenoğlu and Emily Maw. Music and editing by Matthew Scroggs, and announcements by Tom Rivlin. In this episode:

• Belgin and Emily talk about going to two very different conferences.
• Belgin and Emily talk to Jason Lotay, who is now Professor of Pure Maths at the University of Oxford but was a Professor at UCL at the time of recording.
• Belgin and Emily discuss a fact about angles in 3D shapes.
• Belgin and Emily play a game of No more integers.

Note: In the No more integers segment, Emily is clearly using $k$ to denote one of the unit octonions, and not a unit quaternion as it may be more traditional/sensible to do.