Conference programme for TMT 2016
Those speakers marked with * have been short-listed for the GCHQ Prize. For more information about each talk, see the abstracts.
Time | Event |
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10.00 | Registration |
10.15 | Tony Mann and Noel-Ann Bradshaw: Welcome and Introduction |
10.30 | Andrew Silverman, Birkbeck, University of London, Pascal's Triangle: Beyond the Non-Negative Integers |
10.50 | Max Masters, University of ÐÓ°ÉappÏÂÔØ, How I scientifically lost my money on the Grand National |
11.10 | Rachael Whyman, University of Kent, Tiling Time with Music and Juggling |
11.30 | Coffee Break (Coffee courtesy of Taylor and Francis) |
11.50 |
*Tom O'Neill, Aberystwyth University, From Butterflies to Bridges: A ÐÓ°ÉappÏÂÔØ of Wave Propagation Through Periodic Structures OR Georgia Rubinstein, University of East Anglia, The Story of Émilie Du Châtelet |
12.10 |
*Hannah Pybus, University of Nottingham, Mathematical Models of Growth Factor Activation during Bronchoconstriction in Asthma OR Demetra Vasiliou, University of Glasgow, Lagrange's Contribution to Mechanics |
12.30 | *Matjaz Leonardis, University of Oxford, What group theory is really about |
12.50 | Lunch |
1.45 | Splinter Session 1 – attend a choice of 5 streams
Andris Thompson, University of East Anglia, Applications of Mathematics to Lepidopterology: Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect Yiliu Wang, University of Oxford, Paradoxes in Probability Sahra Ahmed Kulmiya, University of ÐÓ°ÉappÏÂÔØ, How has abstract mathematics impacted the discovery of the Higgs Boson? Thomas Wright, York University, Banach Algebras and Automatic Continuity *Robert Findlay, University of Durham, Classifying Tiling Spaces of the same Cohomology |
2.45 | Break |
3.05 | Splinter Session 2 – attend a choice of 3 streams Robert Long, Coventry University, Numerical studies of electro-optic properties of PbSe Nano-crystals David Paintin, University of East Anglia, The Continuum Hypothesis
Ruoyu Wang, University College London, Theory of Distributions and Linear Differential Equations Lizhi Zhang, University of Strathclyde, The stability of classic predator-prey models and modification |
3.50 | Award of GCHQ Prize |
4.00 | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eugenia Cheng, University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the Art Institute of Chicago, Deep Structures: my journey into abstract mathematics Abstract: I will talk about mathematics as a way of thinking, as opposed to a way of calculating the correct answers. I will give a personal account of how I was drawn to more and more abstract mathematics, until I finally found my mathematical home in Category Theory. Abstraction for me is the process of shedding details to get to deep structures that are holding things together. I will describe some of my favourite abstract structures and show how abstraction reveals connections between apparently unrelated ideas. |
5.00 | Finish |