Hello everyone, Thanks to everyone who turned up to Alex’s talk last Friday, there are still copies of his article left if anyone would like one. Also, apologies for the room confusion on Friday, as it turns out I’ve actually booked Room 452 for the rest of the semester and did not realise this until the day of the talk. It’s not a problem though, as room 452 has the same facilities, but that’s now where we will be having our meetings this semester. This week we have another special talk, this time from somebody in the Engineering Faculty, or more accurately the Australian Centre for Field Robotics. He will be talking about Challenges in Spatial Stochastic Processes. For those unfamiliar with statistics, a stochastic process is a statistical model similar to Markov chains (which were talked about in a talk last semester), and have many interesting applications. I don’t think I can do justice to this area of mathematics in a single email, so if you want to hear more, please come to the talk. Title: Challenges in Spatial Stochastic Processes Speaker: Fabio Ramos Location: Carslaw 452 Date/time: Friday 15 August, 1-2pm Gareth