Episode 004: Bryn Reinstadler on Teaching Change-Ringing at MIT

• Bryn Reinstadler is a graduate of Williams College, a graduate student in machine learning and artificial intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the voice (and aesthetic sensibility) of Ringing Room.
• Bryn, with Leland Kusmer, taught MIT’s recent course “English Change-Ringing: A Mathematical-Musical Team Sport.” (Their reading list for this project is at the end of these notes.)
• If you’d like a short introduction to machine learning, Bryn recommends this two-minute YouTube video. 
• Mostly, though, we talk about permutations, Cayley graphs, and touring permutation groups. You know: ringing.
• For more discussion of the Chandler’s 23-band, see the end of episode 001. For more discussion of Academic Delight Major, see episode 005.
• Selected readings:
  • Coleman, Steve. The Ringing in History Companion.
  • Morris, Ernest. The History and Art of Change Ringing.
  • Sanderson, J (ed.). Change Ringing: The History of an English Art, vol I-III (CCCBR).
  • Davies, Michael B. The Unassuming Genius: The Life and Times of AJ Pitman.
  • Shurcliff, Margaret Homer. Lively Days: Some Memoirs of Margaret Homer Shurcliff.
  • Snowdon, Jasper. The Method of Double Norwich Court Bob Major.
  • Simpson, J. Michael (ed.). There Was Life Before NAG (NAGCR, available at nagcr.org).

Thank you, friends.

Bells: Kent School ca. 2003, unknown band.