ICG outreach officer Dr. Jen Gupta, contributed a workshop on “The Mathematics of the Universe” for the Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclass for Hampshire, held at Southampton University in March. Pupil’s attending the workshop calculated the number of galaxies in the Universe based on the number observed in the Hubble Deep Field and the size of that compared to the entire sky.

The children voted the workshop their favourite for the series, and their opinions of the event are summarised in the below wordl.