Adventures in Model Land

<p>You are blue, and are surrounded by other blue people: swirling together in a dot, identical and indistinguishable. From somewhere above you hear the ticking of a clock, and suddenly find yourself and some of your fellows pulled upwards, sucked through a tube arcing high above...</p> <p>Intrigued? That is a description of one of <a href='https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jenright/'>Jess Enright's</a> adventures in her mathematical models. This is an exciting new approach that researchers are using to invite people into the worlds of their models, both to communicate their research to the people outside of academia, but also for the researchers themselves to reflect on what aspects of reality these models actually do, and don't, describe.</p> <p>These adventures in model land build on the work of <a href='https://www.ericathompson.co.uk/'>Erica Thompson</a> in her book, Escape from Model Land: how mathematical models can lead us astray and what we can do about it. Any mathematical descripti...