We run regular Public Lectures that enable anyone with an interest in the subject to see the best mathematicians in action and to share the pleasure (and occasional pain) of this most important of subjects. For booking information please click on the abstract for each lecture.
If you can't be here in person you can always view online. Jump down to Public Lectures and interviews online.
You can view and download posters from previous events.
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Julia Gog is Reader in Mathematical Biology in Cambridge. She specialises in the mathematics of infectious diseases, notably the spread of influenza.
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Allan McRobie is Reader in Engineering in Cambridge and the author of the forthcoming book 'The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty that Connect Mathematics, Art, and the Nude.' Allan's lecture will be based on the book.
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Alex Bellos is a writer and broadcaster and the author of 'Alex's Adventures in Numberland' and 'Alex Through the Looking-Glass.' He writes a maths blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian.
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Public Lectures Online
Why the truth matters - Tim Harford
The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart
How can we uhderstand our complex economy - Doyne Farmer
Fashion, Faith and Fantasy - Roger Penrose
Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alsion Etheridge
What We Cannot Know - Marcus du Sautoy
The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy
Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson
M.C. Escher: Artist, Mathematician, Man - Roger Penrose and Jon Chapman
Dancing Vortices - Étienne Ghys
The Gömböc, the Turtle and the Evolution of Shape - Professor Gábor Domokos
Birth of an Idea: A Mathematical Adventure - Professor Cédric Villani
The History of Mathematics in 300 Stamps - Professor Robin Wilson
What Maths Really Does - Professor Alain Goriely
Forbidden Crystal Symmetry - Sir Roger Penrose
Big Data's Big Deal - Professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
Love and Math - Professor Edward Frenkel
Why there are no three-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages - Professor James D Murray
The Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Professor Marcus du Sautoy
The Secret Mathematicians: the connections between maths and the arts - Professor Marcus du Sautoy
Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, 'Finding Moonshine' - Professor Marcus du Sautoy
The Music of the Primes: a talk about the Riemann Hypothesis and primes - Professor Marcus du Sautoy
Interviews with Mathematicians
Nigel Hitchin reflects with Martin Bridson
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/23405
Roger Heath-Brown in conversation with Ben Green
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/16561
Roger Penrose interviewed by Andrew Hodges – part one
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/extra-time-professor-sir-roger-penrose-conversation-andrew-hodges-part-one
Roger Penrose interviewed by Andrew Hodges – part two
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/extra-time-professor-sir-roger-penrose-conversation-andrew-hodges-part-two
Michael Atiyah interviewed by Paul Tod
Jim Murray interviewed by Philip Maini
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/james-d-murray-reflections-life-academia-conversation-phillip-maini
Bryce McLeod Interviewed by John Ball
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/bryce-mcleod-life-mathematics-conversation-john-ball