• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: n/a
• Web Address: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/events/public-lectures-events
• Organising department: Mathematical Institute

Wednesday 6 April 2016 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Mathematics of Crime
  Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Toy Models
  Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - What We Cannot Know
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics
  Professor Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  TBA

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How can we understand our complex economy
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Prof. Doyne Farmer

Thursday 15 December 2016 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - SOLD OUT
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  TBA

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inaugural Roger Penrose Lecture - Stephen Hawking
  CANCELLED
  TBA

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Statistics: Why the Truth Matters
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Tim Harford

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Butterfly Effect - What Does it Really Signify?
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Tim Palmer (Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, Oxford Martin School)

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Sound of Symmetry and the Symmetry of Sound
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 June 2017 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Law of the Few
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers - Vicky Neale
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Vicky Neale (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Maths v Disease - Julia Gog
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Julia Gog (University of Cambridge)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Seduction of Curves: The Lines of Beauty That Connect Mathematics, Art and The Nude - Allan McRobie
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Allan McRobie (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 6 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Can Yule solve my problems? - Alex Bellos
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Alex Bellos (n/a)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Scaling the Maths of Life - Michael Bonsall
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Prof Michael Bonsall (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Euler’s pioneering equation: ‘the most beautiful theorem in mathematics’ - Robin Wilson
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Robin Wilson (The Open University)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Can Mathematics Understand the Brain? - Alain Goriely
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Michael Atiyah - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 26 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Richard James - Atomistically inspired origami
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Richard James (University of Minnesota)

Wednesday 5 September 2018 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Persi Diaconis - Chance and Evidence
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)

Monday 24 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Roger Penrose - Eschermatics SOLD OUT
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Roger Penrose (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:30 - James Sparks and City of London Sinfonia - Bach and the Cosmos SOLD OUT
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  James Sparks (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere 15 November 2018 - 5.15pm
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Michael Berry (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 12 December 2018 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Hannah Fry - Hello World
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  Hannah Fry (UCL)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  James Maynard (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Marc Lackenby - Knotty Problems
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Marc Lackenby (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Julia Wolf - The Power of Randomness
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Julia Wolf (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Graham Farmelo - The Universe Speaks in Numbers
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Graham Farmelo (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Marcus du Sautoy - The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - John Bush - Walking on water: from biolocomotion to quantum foundations
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  John Bush (MIT)

Wednesday 18 September 2019 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - David Sumpter - Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician?
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  David Sumpter (University of Uppsala)

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Jon Chapman (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Carlo Rovelli - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille Université )

Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose?
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Chris Budd (University of Bath)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Ian Griffiths (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Alan Champneys: Why pedestrian bridges wobble - synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Alan Champneys (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture: Renaud Lambiotte - Smartphones vs COVID-19
  Online Lecture. No need to register. https://livestream.com/oxuni/lambiotte
  Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Philip Maini: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine ONLINE ONLY
  Online lecture - no need to register. https://livestream.com/oxuni/maini
  Philip Maini (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 September 2020 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Joshua Bull - Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football?
  Online lecture only. No need to register.
  Mr Joshua Bull (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Tim Harford - How to Make the World Add up
  Online Event - no need to register
  Tim Harford

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture: David Sumpter - How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life
  Online only - no need to registerr
  David Sumpter (University of Uppsala)

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture: Anna Seigal - Ideas for a Complex World
  Online: no need to register
  Dr Anna Seigal (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Online Public Lecture in Partnership with Wadham College Celebrating Roger Penrose's Nobel Prize: Spacetime Singularities - Roger Penrose, Dennis Lehmkuhl and Melvyn Bragg
  This is an online lecture will be available afterwards
  Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Dennis Lehmkuhl (University of Bonn), Melvyn Bragg (n/a)

Tuesday 16 March 2021 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Jon Keating - From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events
  Prof. Jon Keating (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - I is a Strange Loop - Written and performed by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould
  Online lecture/performance
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford), Victoria Gould

Tuesday 6 July 2021 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Ingrid Daubechies - Mathemalchemy: a mathematical and artistic adventure
  Online Public Lecture
  Professor Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)

Thursday 17 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Deep Maths - machine learning and mathematics
  Online only - https://www.youtube.com/c/OxfordMathematics
  Alex Davies (DeepMind), Andras Juhasz (University of Oxford), Marc Lackenby (University of Oxford), Geordie Williamson (University of Sydney)

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Communicating Complex Statistical Ideas to the Public: Lessons from the Pandemic - David Spiegelhalter
  Professor David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 15 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A mathematical journey through scales - Martin Hairer
  Martin Hairer (Imperial College London)

Wednesday 5 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The million-dollar shuffle: symmetry and complexity - Colva Roney-Dougal
  Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Signatures of Streams - Professor Terry Lyons
  Terry Lyons (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 December 2022 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Anyone for a mince pi? Mathematical modelling of festive foods - Helen Wilson
  Helen Wilson (UCL)

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cascading Principles - Conrad Shawcross, Martin Bridson and James Sparks with Fatos Ustek
  Conrad Shawcross (Artist), Martin Bridson (Oxford), James Sparks (University of Oxford), Fatos Ustek (Curator)

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A world from a sheet of paper - Tadashi Tokieda
  Tadashi Tokieda (Stanford University)

Thursday 27 July 2023 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Envisioning Imagination - Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Conrad Shawcross with Fatos Ustek - SOLD OUT
  Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille Université ), Conrad Shawcross (Artist), Fatos Ustek (Curator)

Wednesday 13 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex - David Sumpter
  David Sumpter (University of Uppsala)

Tuesday 3 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Around the World in 80 Games - Marcus du Sautoy
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Does Life know about quantum mechanics? - Jim Al-Khalili
  Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Forming a Thought into Form - Jon Keating, Maya B. Kronic, Emma Ridgway, and Conrad Shawcross with Fatos Ustek
  Various (See programme)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A Mathematical Journey through Literature - Sarah Hart
  Sarah Hart (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Logging the World - Oliver Johnson
  Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mobilizing Mathematics for the Fight Against Cancer - Trachette Jackson
  Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Ubiquity of Braids - Tara Brendle
  Tara Brendle (University of Glasgow)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Infinite Jesters: what can philosophers learn from a puzzle involving infinitely many clowns? - Ofra Magidor and Alexander Kaiserman
  Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From Ronald Ross to ChatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk - Jordan Ellenberg
  Jordan Ellenberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Wednesday 10 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Counting Project - Tim Harford
  Tim Harford

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers - David Spiegelhalter
  Professor David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)