| Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure |
This lecture is a visual treat as Ingrid Daubechies celebrates the joy, creativity and beauty of mathematics. |
Ingrid Daubechies |
19 July, 2021 |
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| I is a Strange Loop - written and performed by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould |
From the creative ensemble behind Complicité’s sensational A Disappearing Number, this two-hander unfolds to reveal an intriguing take on mortality, consciousness and artificial life. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Victoria Gould, Simon McBurney |
19 July, 2021 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. Jon Keating: From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events |
Oxford University's Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is 400 years old in 2021. |
Jon Keating |
28 April, 2021 |
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| Spacetime Singularities - Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg |
We are on board the Oxford Mathematics Space Probe for this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture as we explore Black Holes with a Nobel Laureate, a Professor of the History and Philosophy of Physics & a broadcasting legend. |
Roger Penrose, Melvyn Bragg, Dennis Lehmkuhl |
28 April, 2021 |
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| Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal |
Science and maths are full of smart tools for explaining the world around us. Those tools can feel far removed from the way the rest of us understand that world. Can we reconcile the two approaches? Oxford Mathematician Anna Seigal provides some answers. |
Anna Seigal |
7 December, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty |
Mathematicians get up to all sorts. Geometers and Topologists in particular occupy a world of inconceivable shapes, concepts and dimensions. But how do you visualise such ideas? Sure, there's computer graphics, but what about over here, in the real world? |
Henry Segerman |
2 November, 2020 |
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| Mathematics Public Lecture: How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life - David Sumpter |
Mathematics has a lot going for it, but David Sumpter argues that it can not only provide you with endless YouTube recommendations, and even make you rich, but it can make you a better person. |
David Sumpter |
2 November, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Harford |
You have to sympathise with statistics. Misunderstood and misused when all they want to do is accumulate. What they need is a little human understanding. Tim Harford's Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture does just that. |
Tim Harford |
2 November, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football? - Joshua Bull |
Oxford Mathematician Josh Bull won the 2019-2020 Premier League Fantasy Football competition from nearly 8 million entrants. So how did he do it? Did he by any chance use mathematics? |
Joshua Bull |
2 November, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine |
The Grey Squirrel invasion explaining tumour cell proliferation? Alan Turing explaining football shirt patterns? The close relationship between slugs and the human heart? What is the common link? Mathematics of course. And Philip Maini. |
Philip Maini |
8 June, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Number Theory: Primitive Roots |
In this, the second online lecture we are making widely available, Ben Green introduces and delivers a short lecture on Primitive Roots, part of the Number Theory Lecture course for Second Year Undergraduates. |
Ben Green |
27 May, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Graph Theory: Shortest Paths |
Oxford has gone online for lockdown. So how do our student lectures look? Let Marc Lackenby show you as he looks at paths between vertices in a graph with a view to finding the shortest route between any two vertices. Works for your Satnav for example. |
Marc Lackenby |
27 May, 2020 |
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| Smartphones v COVID 19 |
Smartphones will help save lives. Smartphones' value is exaggerated. What is the reality? And, as ever, what is the Maths behind it all? Leading Network Scientist Renaud Lambiotte downloads the facts in this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. |
Renaud Lambiotte |
19 May, 2020 |
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| How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks? |
Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be? |
Robin Thompson |
15 April, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2 |
Oxford Mathematician Peter Howell starts the second part of the 2nd year Differential Equations course which focuses on boundary problems. |
Peter Howell |
9 April, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd |
So much noise, so many opinions. Perhaps time for Occam's Razor to start its scientific shaving? |
Alan Champneys |
31 March, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the third year course on Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives from Sam Cohen where we hear that the role of derivatives is not to make money but to avoid being exploited. |
Sam Cohen |
2 March, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the second term introductory course on Linear Algebra from leading Oxford Mathematician James Maynard. |
James Maynard |
2 March, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics |
How do you make a star-shaped Cheerio? How do they make the glass on your smartphone screen so flat? And how can you make a vacuum filter that removes the most dust before it blocks? |
Ian Griffiths |
26 February, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Carlo Rovelli - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity |
Carlo Rovelli delivers The Roger Penrose Lecture on the Quantum structure of Spacetime. |
Carlo Rovelli |
16 January, 2020 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose? |
From the unfairness of voting on TV shows to how Santa gets down so many narrow chimneys. Chris Budd take a mathematical look at the traditions of Christmas. |
Chris Budd |
19 December, 2019 |
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| Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks |
Via guitars, clarinets and a musical saw to the noise reduction in a vaccum cleaner, Jon Chapman explains the role of waves in the sounds we hear and don't hear. |
Jon Chapman |
2 December, 2019 |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Quantum Theory |
Our latest student lecture is the first in the Quantum Theory course for second year students. Fernando Alday reflects on the breakdown of the deterministic world and describes some of the experiments that defined the new Quantum Reality. |
Fernando Alday |
2 December, 2019 |
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| Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture: Timothy Gowers - Productive generalization: one reason we will never run out of interesting mathematical questions |
In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Tim Gowers uses the principle of generalization to show how mathematics progresses in its relentless pursuit of problems. |
Tim Gowers, Hannah Fry |
27 November, 2019 |
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| Oxford Mathematics Newcastle Public Lecture: Vicky Neale - in Maths |
Mathematics has no place for emotion, its practitioners are positively unemotional. True? Well, no. In fact 10 out of 10 untrue. Mathematics and mathematicians are also on the emotional rollercoaster. Vicky Neale is one of them. |
Vicky Neale |
27 November, 2019 |
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