Colva M. Roney-Dougal - Other

This page collects various odds and ends that don't fit anywhere else; I was told once that no filing system is complete without a section marked "miscellaneous", so consider this that!

Popularisation

I've done various bits and pieces of maths popularisation over the last few years. Here's a selection of stuff that is avilable online.
  • Plus Magazine is an online maths magazine. My recent essay for them (jointly written with Vince Vatter) is Of pancakes, mice and men.
  • In Our Time on Radio 4 with Melyvn Bragg, Unintended consequences of mathematics (broadcast 11th Feb 2010).
  • I turned the Radio 3 essay (see below) into a Plus Magazine essay called Chaos, chance and money.
  • Radio 3 had a season called New Generation Thinkers, and they commissioned me to write a radio essay linking something topical in the news with my research. This is what I came up with.
  • In Our Time on Radio 4 with Melvyn Bragg, History of Probability (broadcast 29th May 2008)
  • In Our Time on Radio 4 with Melvyn Bragg, Indian Maths (broadcast 14th December 2006)
  • In Our Time on Radio 4 with Melvyn Bragg, Negative Numbers (broadcast 9th March 2006)
  • Another Plus Magazine article: The power of groups

Presentation Slides

London Mathematical Society Journal for Computation and Mathematics

I'm an editorial adviser for the JCM, covering computational group theory and constraint satisfaction problems. If you'd like to submit an article to the JCM, please follow the instructions on their website.

Undergraduate Admissions

I'm currently the admissions officer for the School of Mathematics and Statistics, dealing with all Home (that's UK and EU) undergraduate applications. More information about applying to study maths at St Andrews is available here.

Staff Dining Club

We organise dinners, roughly once or twice a semester, for all staff at the University of St Andrews. The next one will be on Tuesday 13th December. The signup sheet is here.