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Six Degrees of Innovation: Investing in Green Technology - Panel Discussion

A panel discussion between Professor Richard Templer, Chris Hewett and...

Unwelcome Guests: Human Diseases

Shakespeare wrote of island Britain as 'This fortress built by...

Infections and the Brain

Control measures including vaccination have reduced the risk of some, but not all, of these very serious infections. This lecture will cover how infections get into the brain, their effect and how we can prevent and treat them.

The Zika Virus, Dengue and the Yellow Fever Mosquito

The Zika virus originated in Africa and causes a febrile illness but was little known until it spread within Brazil in 2014. The lecture will also discuss the ‘nightmare scenario’ of the increased range of the mosquito as a result of climate change.

Equations That Have Changed The World

This final lecture will celebrate some of the great mathematical equations, and related algorithms, which have both changed the world as we know it and which are likely to change it in the future.

The Art of Maths

Mathematics and art are more similar than is commonly thought. Each is concerned with the process of being highly creative with abstract objects and of producing everlasting work of great aesthetic beauty.

Whither to the Creeping Paralysis? Progress on the road to curing motor neuron disease

The lecture will cover a description of how we diagnose...

500 Years of Mathematics: Are We Living in a New Golden Age?

The last 500 years of progress in maths will be reviewed, to see where it is going next and ask whether we are truly living in a mathematical Golden Age.

The Quantum Mathematician

Quantum science has been one of the most successful and useful theories ever invented. Indeed quantum technology was added as the ninth of the original eight great technologies.

Great Mathematical Myths

I will start by looking at the mythology that has gathered around the Golden Ratio, and also consider the fairness of cake-cutting, and changing choices in the Monty Hall problem.

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