Wednesday 30 March 2022
Heather Harrington (Oxford)
Computational geometry and topology for spatial structures arising in biology
Wednesday 5 February 2020
Alan Champneys (Bristol)
The legacy of Paul Painlevé and how to draw dashed lines with chalk
Wednesday 15th May 2019
Helen Byrne (University of Oxford)
Mathematical approaches to modelling and remodelling biological tissues
Wednesday 13th March 2019
Richard Mycroft (University of Birmingham)
Trees in tournaments
Wednesday 13th February 2019
Christoph Thiele (Bonn)
Singular Brascamp-Lieb inequalities
Wednesday 28th November 2018
Rob Curtis (University of Birmingham)
Sphere-packing, lattices and groups
Wednesday 31st October 2018
Jon McLoone (Wolfram Research Europe)
Towards unified computation
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Lauren Williams (UC Berkley)
Particle processes and Macdonald polynomials (Hardy Lecture)
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Sibylle Schroll (Leicester)
Graphs and representation theory
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Imre Leader (Cambridge)
Tiling with arbitrary tiles
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Steve Otto (R&A)
Analysis of variability in golf swings
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen (Imperial)
Making use of Complex Systems Science to understand the effect on the audience of classical improvisation
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Marta Mazzocco (Loughborough)
Colliding holes in Riemann Surfaces
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Benoit Perthame (UPMC, Paris)
Bacterial collective movement: patterns, pathways, scales, models
Wednesday 8 February 2017
Andrew Thomason (Cambridge)
Containers in combinatorics
Wednesday 23 November 2016
James Robinson (Warwick)
A characterisation of local existence for semilinear heat equations in Lebesgue spaces
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Ruth Misener (Imperial)
Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation: Energy Efficiency Applications
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Beatrice Pelloni (Reading)
Beyond integrability: the far-reaching consequences of thinking about boundary conditions
Wednesday 24 February 2016
Corinna Ulcigrai (Bristol)
Mathematical billiards and periodic surfaces dynamics
Wednesday 25 November 2015
Daniel Kráľ (Warwick)
Analytic methods in combinatorics
Wednesday 28 October 2015
David Craven (Birmingham)
The combinatorics of group rings
Wednesday 18 March 2015
Gernot Stroth (Halle)
Sporadic simple groups
Wednesday 11th February 2015
Vassili Kolokoltsov (Warwick)
Evolutionary game-theoretic modelling of cyber-security, crime prevention, inspection and corruption
Wednesday 3rd December 2014
Tom Leinster (Edinburgh)
The many faces of magnitude
Wednesday 29th October 2014
Robert MacKay (Warwick)
A kinematic explanation for gamma-ray bursts
Wednesday 19th March 2014
Reidun Twarock (York)
Viruses and geometry – a new perspective on virus assembly and anti-viral therapy
Wednesday 12th February 2014
Leslie Ann Goldberg (Oxford)
Spin Systems, Phase Transitions, Sampling and Approximation Algorithms
Wednesday 27th November 2013
Iain Gordon (Edinburgh)
Wronskians, Galois Theory and Schubert Calculus
Wednesday 30th October 2013
Mike Gunn (Birmingham)
Rotating ultra cold gases - fluid dynamics in the space of analytic functions
Wednesday 8th May 2013
Iain Styles (Birmingham)
Inverse Problems in Optical Imaging: Sparsity, Compressed Sensing and Random Matrices
Wednesday 6th February 2013
Tomasz Luczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
Critical phenomena in random discrete structures: a guided tour
Wednesday 21st November 2012
Peter Cameron (QMUL)
Synchronisation
Wednesday 24th October 2012
Sanju Velani (York)
Diophantine approximation: the Lebesgue and Hausdorff theories
Friday 8th June 2012
Benny Sudakov (UCLA)
Induced matchings, arithmetic progressions and communication
Wednesday 7th March 2012
Rob Curtis (Birmingham)
Groups and graphs
Wednesday 8th February 2012
Richard Pinch (Cheltenham)
Solution of Diophantine equations
23rd November 2011
Simon Blackburn (Royal Holloway)
What is the probability that a pair of elements in a group are conjugate?
20th October 2011
John Conway (Princeton)
The quickest introduction to the Monster
23rd February 2011
Graham Brightwell (LSE)
Random partial orders and models of space-time
19th January 2011
Terence Tao (UCLA)
The Erdos distance problem and the ham sandwich theorem
1st December 2010
Ben Green (Cambridge)
Approximate groups
3rd November 2010
Roger Heath-Brown (Oxford)
Counting Solutions of Diophantine Equations
18th March 2010
Simon Goodwin (Birmingham)
Representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras and finite W-algebras
10th February 2010
Caroline Series (Warwick)
From Basic Hyperbolic Geometry to Spaces of Kleinian Groups
25th November 2009
Tom Körner (Cambridge)
Surnames, Pollen and Shares
28th October 2009
Anne Thomas (Oxford)
Lattices for trees and polygonal complexes
11th March 2009
Imre Leader (Cambridge)
Pursuit and Evasion
11th February 2009
Deryk Osthus (Birmingham)
Hamilton cycles in graphs
26th November 2008
Alan Beardon (Cambridge)
Groups, geometry and continued fractions
29th October 2008
Frances Kirwan (Oxford)
Moduli spaces and quotients of algebraic varieties by group actions