Marcus Du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science in Oxford, will be in Bangladesh to give three presentations to the fourth Hay Festival in Dhaka, 22-24 November 2014. On December 9th he will be in New Zealand as the 2014 Royal Society of New Zealand Distinguished Speaker, talking about the Art of Mathematics in Auckland, and the following day he will be in Nelson to give the Thomas Cawthron Memorial Lecture.
By contrast in the New Year, on January 19th, he will be speaking to the Clacton Arts and Literary Society about the Secret Mathematicians and on 29 January and 3 February he will be talking to GCSE and A level students as part of AIM conferences in London. The conferences are intended to explain the stimulation and pleasure that academic subjects provide and are 'aimed' at students, teachers and the general public.