Following last year's highly-competitive snowflake contest, we upped the ante for 2014...
We asked our PhD students to design a Christmas e-card for the Department to send to our colleagues. There weren't many rules - the main requirements were that it should look festive and have a maths theme. Could it be done? Yes it could, as the image below, our winning entry, proves!
The picture is compiled from a series of snowflake-shaped fractals.
Of course, there was a prize for the winner: Barnaby Roberts, PhD student in Discrete Mathematics. He got some assistance from Ahmad Abu-Khazneh, PhD student in Game Theory and Discrete Mathematics; while final editing was done by our Research Administrator, Rebecca Lumb.
We hope friends of the Department will enjoy this e-card dropping into their inbox at 'the most wonderful time of the year'. We're also very excited that it falls inline with our important Green Impact manifesto: sending a holiday e-card, rather than posting a hardcopy card, is one easy and colourful way to make sure that we cut down our emissions and leave 'snow' carbon footprint!
We'd like to wish one and all a very merry ChristMATHS!!!