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Today's prize for on-brand academic behaviour goes to the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, for disguising their building as a chalkboard.
(I'm informed that the elements were collected from working chalkboards in staff offices.)
I am frankly envious. If my department set out to advertise its academic values in the same way, we'd end up with a grant-application form fifteen storeys high.
@ncdominie The new maths building at my old school. The school consulted some maths alumni (not me!) about the mathematical ‘graffiti’.
@ThisCJ When they did up our dept website some years ago they gave it a snazzy banner of algebraic clip-art, which was of course nonsense. The web design team were quite surprised and offended that we wanted this changed...
Oooo… that window!
(#AltText: the window is round divided by a variety of lines in asymmetrical fashion)
@ncdominie
Would be lovely if it contains some clever Easter eggs, like some number theory or graph theory hidden message. 
If it doesn't, then the organizers imho missed a very good publicity stunt opportunity. They could have set a 500£ and a printed fun certificate for the first person who figure it out.
@ncdominie ahahaa pretty sure that's at the #UniversityOfGlasgow
Edit: yes I just noticed that was already mentioned in the first post... now I'm confused which of the first post or the answer is UofG 
@ncdominie The Latin building should have "Romani ite domum" written all over it.
@ncdominie The dread the day you find out that your mistake is memorialized on some building.
@koen_hufkens Ach, it's chalkboard maths. Accuracy is a bonus, right?
This is just delightful.
@ncdominie I hope they periodically update it to reflect the state of the art in their research.
@ncdominie I absolutely adore this. I now need a hi-res image so I can see if I can recollect any of the equations.
@ncdominie Go you! Thx.
@ncdominie delightful
That's bloody brilliant 
@ncdominie Is this a sign of under funding that they don’t have enough chalk boards inside?
@ncdominie good, but even better would be to use actual chalkboard paint and hand out ladders to the faculty
Lovely idea. 
But what's a 'working' chalkboard?
Surely it's just a piece of board?
(Yes, I know that computerised boards exist. But they're not 'chalkboards', surely?)
[ The trouble is, that I'm a pedant, like so many other mathematicians too.
]
@ncdominie
Oh wow. Impressive. And scary as heck. 
Good way to signal to everyone what stuff is to be encountered inside, so those not doing Mathematics (based studies) know to avoid the building. 
@ncdominie Now I want to work there! Just so I can walk up to this gloriousness every morning!
@ncdominie what an avesome idea 
@ncdominie told them not to hire that giant.
I *love* that they used real, working blackboard scribblings. It would be cool to have the usual “greatest hits” art (Riemann zeta, Parseval’s inequality, Gauss divergence thm, etc), but this is next level.
Real mathematics: often looks like blobs and polygons with arrows between them, annotated with the occasional letter with subscripts.
Fabulous, could use an orange cone on top for a bit of local attitude! 
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