MAGIC Graduate-Level online lectures

(Jan Sieber, 3 Oct 2025 )

Website with resources:

https://maths-magic.ac.uk/

Starting week

• autumn: from 06 October 2025,
• winter/spring: ?? January 2026

Lecture room and time

online on zoom

Lectures start on full hours, run from 9am.

Courses

These courses offer lectures on specialised mathematical topics (see below) to PGR students at 22 UK Universities. The lectures are delivered by a member of staff from one of the participating universities. Students attend the lectures via zoom.

Credit

Each course can count toward the compulsory training if you submit and pass a pass/fail take-home exam at the end of the course. See maths-magic.ac.uk/this-week for exam periods.

Registration

MAGIC You will be automatically registered for MAGIC, such that you are able to login to the maths-magic.ac.uk website. If you have not received your registration details, contac me by email.

Courses You can then enrol for courses. For each course you can enrol for participation only (such that it does not count as credit) or for participation and assessment.

Hardware & software instructions

All lectures are broadcast using zoom. You can connect to the lecture using a personal basic account given to you after you registered for MAGIC (see My MAGIC-> My MAGIC-Maths Zoom account). You can set your own password for this zoom account. The lectures require authentication such that you cannot just join by clicking on a link.

For each course you plan to attend:

• enrol on http://maths-magic.ac.uk
• choose if you intend to get assessed (this can be changed at a later date, before the exam period)
• attend the lecture(s) as scheduled each week
• after each lecture tick a box on maths-magic, confirming that you attended (for attendance monitoring)

Locally able to help

• [first point of call] Jan Sieber (node representative, j.sieber@exeter.ac.uk, Office Harrison Building 333)
• Samantha Blackburn (part-time, s.e.blackburn@exeter.ac.uk, administor coordinating MAGIC for the entire UK network)
• Prof. Peter Ashwin (UK wide MAGIC director, p.ashwin@exeter.ac.uk, Office Harrison Building 338)

Available courses

See maths-magic.ac.uk/courses.php for complete list.