Travels In A Mathematical World

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Sinopsis

A podcast from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). Episodes include mathematicians talking about their work, maths history and maths news. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

Episodios

  • 45 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

    07/11/2009 Duración: 17min

    Episode 45. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include the new Lucasian Professor, models of cancer growth and radiation, killer robots, graphic novels and maths A level uptake, plus birthdays for Martin Gardner, the Greenwich Meridian and this podcast. For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 44 - Andrew Cates, his career

    31/10/2009 Duración: 12min

    Episode 44. Dr Andrew Cates talks about his career working for Shell as strategy consultancy, country manager for Shell in Cote d'Ivoire, as co-ordinating manager for "everything Shell sold to ships worldwide" and in charge of gas and power business in Europe. Andrew also talks his recent work for charity SOS Children, the world's largest orphan and abandoned children's charity. This recording was made live during the panel discussion at the Young Researchers in Mathematics 2009 Conference at the University of Cambridge. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 43 - Victor Arulchandran, wave dispersion and PhD skills

    25/10/2009 Duración: 05min

    Episode 43. Victor Arulchandran of Brunel University talked to me (in a quite noisy tea room!) about his PhD topic looking at wave dispersion and the wide range of applications of that area of mathematics. Victor also talks about the skills he is able to acquire during his PhD which will aide his future career aspirations in financial modelling. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 42 - Ed Galea, His career, part 2: Crowd evacuation modelling

    18/10/2009 Duración: 09min

    Episode 42. Following on from episode 41 we hear from Professor Ed Galea of the University of Greenwich who talks about his work with the Fire Safety Engineering Group in crowd evacuation modelling. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 41 - Ed Galea, His career, part 1: How astrophysics leads to steel casting and fire modelling

    11/10/2009 Duración: 10min

    Episode 41. In this, part 1 of 2, Professor Ed Galea of the University of Greenwich talks about his career in various aspects of magnetohydrodynamics, from origins in astrophysics and how this led him to industrial steel casting and fire modelling. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 40 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

    04/10/2009 Duración: 22min

    Episode 40. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include Turing, phoney formulae, symmetric dates, politician's understanding of maths, Google Pagerank & ecosystem collapse, school exam results, brain chaos & zombie attacks! For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 39 - Beatrice Pelloni, Applications of Fourier transforms

    26/09/2009 Duración: 05min

    Episode 39. Beatrice Pelloni, Reader in Applied Mathematics at University of Reading, who I met at the Women in Mathematics Day 2009 spoke to me about her career, the topic of her talk at that event ("Generalised Fourier transforms and boundary value problems") and a little about being both a mother to young children and a mathematician. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 38 - David Spiegelhalter, Public understanding of risk

    19/07/2009 Duración: 18min

    Episode 38. David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk talks about his career in statistics and current work in public communication. David speaks about the factors affecting risk-taking and how people perceive risk. Last episode before summer break. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 37 - David Mitchell, Channel coding and maths in engineering

    11/07/2009 Duración: 07min

    Episode 37. David Mitchell of the University of Edinburgh, who is doing a collaborative PhD between the Schools of Mathematics and Engineering, talks about his area channel coding and about the links between mathematics and engineering. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 36 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

    03/07/2009 Duración: 17min

    Episode 36. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include evolution of numeracy, electric fish, 'phantom' traffic jams, maths v. superstition, gender, Dara O'Briain, sporting mathematicians, maths teaching and the Royal Society Summer Science. For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 35 - Terry Edwards, Chartered Mathematician

    27/06/2009 Duración: 07min

    Episode 35. As university students prepare to graduate I ask Terry Edwards about IMA Professional Development and Chartered Mathematician Status. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 34 - Eugenia Cheng, Category theory

    21/06/2009 Duración: 09min

    Episode 34. Dr. Eugenia Cheng from the University of Sheffield talks to me about what she likes about mathematics, her area of category theory and TheCatsters YouTube channel. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 33 - David Fearn, Magnetohydrodynamics

    14/06/2009 Duración: 05min

    Episode 33. Professor David Fearn of the University of Glasgow sat down with me and talked about the area of magnetohydrodynamics. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 32 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

    06/06/2009 Duración: 19min

    Episode 32. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include Wolfram|Alpha, mathematicians and the credit crunch, the Christopher Zeeman medal for Ian Stewart, six degrees of seperation, quantum computing, weather forecasting and mathematical films. For more info and show notes including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 31 - Matt Parker, Maths communication

    30/05/2009 Duración: 08min

    Episode 31. Matt Parker, a maths teacher, talks about his work communicating maths in ways that enthuse school students. Includes a live recording with funny gases - helium and sulfur hexafluoride - and a conversation covering maths in the simpsons, getting into teaching and the odds of winning the lottery. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 30 - Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Ramanujan

    22/05/2009 Duración: 13min

    Episode 30. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich talks about Ramanujan. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 29 - Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Evolutionary algorithms for financial applications

    16/05/2009 Duración: 07min

    Episode 29. Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich talks about her research using evolutionary algorithms for financial applications. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 28 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

    10/05/2009 Duración: 22min

    Episode 28. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. For more info and show notes including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 27 - Oliver Jensen, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009

    27/04/2009 Duración: 15min

    Episode 27. Immediately following the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) 2009, I sat down with Professor Oliver Jensen of the University of Nottingham and Co-Chair of the BAMC for a retrospective on the conference and what work is current in applied mathematics. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

  • 26 - Chris Budd, Confessions of an Industrial Mathematican

    19/04/2009 Duración: 05min

    Episode 26. Professor Chris Budd of the University of Bath spoke to me about his view of 21st Century maths, based on his article "Confessions of an Industrial Mathematican", written for Mathematics Today. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk

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