We are delighted to announce that the 44th M500 Winter Weekend will be held over 15th – 17th January 2027 at Kents Hill Conference Centre, Milton Keynes.
The Weekend price is £260 for M500 members and £265 for non-members. This includes accommodation and all meals from dinner on Friday to lunch on Sunday. Shared accommodation is £220 for members, £225 non-members; non-residential is £115 for members, £120 for non-members.
To attend please fill in the booking form below. Further details about the weekend can be found below the booking form
The Weekend provides an opportunity to do some recreational mathematics, not module-based, with a friendly group of like-minded people. The relaxed and social approach delivers maths for fun. The following sessions will be included:
- The regular quiz on Saturday evening.
- Build your own Enigma machine with Thomas Briggs, a guest Speaker and Museum Learning Consultant
- Sessions provided by our regular contributors.
The Weekend is based on a number of worksheets relevant to the theme, and participants can choose which problems to pursue. Mostly we work in small groups, but you can choose who you work with – nothing is compulsory! It should be approachable to anyone who has completed MST124/MST125, but there will also be material to stretch those who feel the need.
In general, we start with dinner at 7 pm on Friday (arrive any time after 2 pm) and finish around 4 pm on Sunday. You don’t have to be a member of M500 to come to the Weekend, but if you are, there is a small discount (see above). If you decide to join at the same time as coming to the Weekend, please make sure that you send the membership form (and membership fee) to the New Membership Secretary, not to the Winter Weekend Organizer.
If you haven’t been to a Winter Weekend before, and don’t know what it’s about, read Information on the Winter Weekend (PDF), read a personal review of the 2011 weekend or have a look at a sample of the material from previous Weekends.