Distinguished Lecture Series

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Friday 20th September 16:00-17:00

Rankin Lecture 2024-25 - Random square-tiled surfaces and random multicurves in large genus

Professor Anton Zorich (University of Paris)


Thursday 29th August 18:30-19:30
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre

Bowman Lecture 2024 - How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of AI

Chris Wiggins (Chief Data Scientist, New York Times)


Tuesday 27th August 16:00-17:00
LT 116, Mathematics and Statistics Building

Mitchell Lecture - Data Science at the New York Times

Chris Wiggins (Chief Data Scientist, New York Times)


Tuesday 21st May 16:00-17:00
LT 116, Mathematics and Statistics Building, UofG

Rankin Lecture 2024

Prof Tim Austin (University of Warwick)


Wednesday 13th March 16:00-17:00

Sneddon Lecture 2024: The Symbiosis in Mathematics-in-Industry

Prof John Ockendon, FRS (University of Oxford)


Thursday 21st September, 2023 15:00-16:00
LT 116 (Maths & Stats Building)

Hardy Lecture - Quantizing via Polytope counting: Old and new

Professor Eva Miranda (UPC Barcelona)


Tuesday 13th June, 2023 16:00-17:00

Mitchell Lecture 2023 - Semiparametric approaches for studying extreme conditional quantiles

Professor Huixia Judy Wang (The George Washington University)


Tuesday 18th April, 2023 16:00-17:00
Lecture Theatre 116

Rankin-Sneddon Lecture 2023: The Social Machine of Mathematics

Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE (University of Edinburgh / University of Oxford)


Thursday 23rd March, 2023 16:00-17:00

Rankin-Sneddon Lecture 2023: Fourier interpolation and the Weil representation

Prof Akshay Venkatesh FRS (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)


Tuesday 21st February, 2023 16:00-17:00
Lecture Theatre 116

[POSTPONED]: Rankin-Sneddon Lecture 2023: The Social Machine of Mathematics

Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE (University of Edinburgh / University of Oxford)


Friday 9th December, 2022 16:30-17:30
Room 116 of Maths & Stats Building

EMS Lecture: Cytoplasmic Streaming and the Swirling Instability of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton

Prof. Raymond Goldstein (University of Cambridge)


Wednesday 30th November, 2022 19:30-20:30
Sir Charles Wilson Building

Bowman Lecture 2022 - Left Behind: How poor places can get trapped, and how they can catch up

Prof. Sir Paul Collier (University of Oxford)


Tuesday 27th September, 2022 16:00-17:00

[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Classification of simple amenable C*-algebras

Professor Stuart White (University of Oxford)


Friday 17th June, 2022 16:00-17:00
Joseph Black B419 Main LT (University of Glasgow)

[CANCELLED] Aitken Lecture: Equivalence relations, topology and C*-algebras

Professor Lisa Orloff-Clark (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)


Tuesday 24th May, 2022 16:00-17:00
Online

Rankin Lecture 2022: What is the telescope conjecture? A walking tour of modern homotopy theory

Professor Doug Ravenel (University of Rochester)


Wednesday 27th April, 2022 16:00-17:00
Online

Mitchell Lecture 2022: Modelling non-Gaussian spatio-temporal processes

Professor Alexandra M. Schmidt (McGill University)


Tuesday 15th March, 2022 16:00-17:00
Online

Sneddon Lecture 2022: Oldroyd B, and not A?

Professor John Hinch, FRS (University of Cambridge)


Monday 18th October, 2021 18:00-20:00
Online

Bowman Lecture 2021 - The Path to Net Zero: data, evidence and policy

Chris Stark & Keith Bell (UK Climate Change Committee)


Tuesday 15th June, 2021 16:00-17:00
Online

Rankin Lecture: Finite Simple Groups - Classification and Applications

Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California)


Tuesday 4th May, 2021 16:00-17:00
Online

Sneddon Lecture: The Beat of Math

Alfio Quarteroni (Politecnico di Milano and EPFL, Lausanne)


Tuesday 16th February, 2021 16:00-17:00
Zoom

Mitchell Lecture: Some Examples at the Interface of “AI” and Dynamic Statistical Models for Complex Environmental and Ecological Data

Professor Christopher Wikle (University of Missouri)


Thursday 10th December, 2020 18:00-19:00
Zoom Webinar

Understanding infectious disease transmission and control - a view from the coalface

Professor Christl Donnely (Imperial College & University of Oxford)


Tuesday 29th September, 2020 17:00-18:00
Online

Billiards on regular polygons - LMS Popular Lecture for Maths Week Scotland

Dr. Diana Davis (Phillips Exeter Academy)


Tuesday 21st April, 2020 16:00-17:00
Online Zoom lecture

Sneddon Lecture: How directed is a directed network?

Professor Robert MacKay, FRS FInstP FIMA (University of Warwick)


Tuesday 18th February, 2020 16:00-17:00
Maths and Stats Building, Room 116

Rankin Lecture: Billiards

Carlos Matheus Silva Santos (CNRS, Paris)


Thursday 3rd October, 2019 17:00-18:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre

LMS Popular Lecture for Maths Week Scotland: A tour of the Mandelbrot set

Holly Krieger (University of Cambridge)


Thursday 19th September, 2019 18:00-19:00
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre

Bowman Lecture (Inaugural): Trust in Numbers

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, OBE FRS (University of Cambridge)


Wednesday 1st May, 2019 16:00-17:00
Maths and Stats Building, room 116

Mitchell Lecture: Clusters everywhere: A tour of cluster analysis and its application

Professor Brendan Murphy (University College Dublin)


Friday 25th January, 2019 16:00-17:00
Maths 116

Edinburgh Mathematical Society Meeting: Complex dynamics: the intriguing case of wandering domains

Gwyneth Stallard (Open University)


Friday 23rd November, 2018 16:00-17:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT)

Sneddon Lecture: Mathematics for web-like patterns of solitary waves in shallow water

Professor Yuji Kodama (Ohio State University)


Friday 14th September, 2018 16:30-17:30
Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre

Edinburgh Mathematical Society Public Lecture: Mathematical Modelling, Mutations and Metastases: Can We Cure Cancer with Calculus?

Professor Mark Chaplain FRSE (University of St Andrews)


Monday 21st May, 2018 16:00-17:00
Davidson 208

Sneddon Lecture: Active Matter: Statistical Physics and the Arrow of Life

Professor Mike Cates FRS FRSE (University of Cambridge)


Friday 23rd March, 2018 16:00-17:00
Maths 311B

EMS Meeting: Koszul algebras, cohomology and support varieties

Professor Nicole Snashall (University of Leicester)


Tuesday 23rd January, 2018 16:00-17:00
Graham Kerr Building Lecture Theatre (room 224)

Statistics are Patients with the Tears wiped away

Professor Peter Boyle FRSE (Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health)


Friday 1st December, 2017 16:00-17:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT)

Rankin Lecture: Why topology is geometry in dimension 3

Nathan Dunfield ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Thursday 18th May, 2017 16:00-17:00
Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre (Room 103)

Mitchell Lecture: Inference and application of the shared descent of genome in population samples

Elizabeth Thompson (University of Washington)


Tuesday 18th April, 2017 16:00-17:00
Lecture Theatre 2, Boyd Orr Building

Sneddon Lecture: Modelling collective cell movement

Philip Maini (University of Oxford)


Friday 24th March, 2017 16:30-17:30
WILT Lecture Theatre

Rankin Lecture: A machine for constructing representations of R. Thompson’s groups, unitary and otherwise

Vaughan F.R. Jones (Vanderbilt University)


Friday 4th November, 2016 16:00-17:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre

What is modern geometry?

Professor Michael Wemyss (University of Glasgow)


Tuesday 25th October, 2016 16:00-17:00
Room 507, Boyd Orr Building.

Probabilistic formal analysis of software usage styles in the wild

Professor Muffy Calder (University of Glasgow)


Monday 22nd June, 2015 16:00-17:00
Maths 516

Symmetry through geometry

Prof Nalini Joshi (University of Sydney)


Wednesday 22nd April, 2015 16:00-17:00
Maths 516

Moving cubes around

Dale Rolfsen (University of British Columbia)


Friday 10th October, 2014 16:00-17:00
Maths 204

Conservation laws: from differential to difference

Prof Peter Hydon (University of Surrey)


Friday 2nd May, 2014 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516

The Dynamos inside our Planets

Prof Chris Jones (University of Leeds)


Thursday 11th July, 2013 14:00-15:00
Mathematics 203 (tea & coffee at 3pm)

Characterization and Modeling of Articular Cartilage: Mathematical Formulations, Experiments and Numerical Examples

Dr. David M. Pierce (Graz University of Technology, Austria)


Friday 24th May, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516

Fluid modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration

Prof. H. Huppert FRS (Institute of Theoretical Geophysics DAMTP, Univers)


Friday 10th May, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516

Strange episodes in the evolution of mathematics

Prof. F. Quinn (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit)


Friday 26th April, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516

Energy-driven pattern formation: Optimal crystals

Dr F. Theil (University of Warwick)


Friday 22nd February, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516

Topological Data Analysis - applying homology in medicine, robotics, sensor networks, and graphics

Dr Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (KTH, Stockholm)


Monday 3rd December, 2012 14:00-15:00
Maths 515

Applications of geometric mechanics: rigid bodies, fluids, liquid crystals, KdV, Teichmüller geodesics

Prof Tudor Ratiu (EPFL)


Friday 27th April, 2012 16:00-17:00
515

Pure Inductive Logic

Prof. J. Paris FBA (Manchester University)


Friday 23rd March, 2012 16:00-17:00
515

Bayesian nonparametric modelling with Gaussian processes in systems biology

Prof. D. Husmeier (Glasgow University)


Friday 10th February, 2012 16:00-17:00
515

Random matrix theory and the distribution of the primes

Prof. J. Keating FRS (Bristol University)


Friday 27th May, 2011 16:00-17:00
515

Functions of a Matrix: Theory, Applications and Computation

Prof. N. J. Higham (University of Manchester)


Friday 19th November, 2010 16:00-17:00
516

Algebraic Statistics: the new interface

Prof Henry Wynn (London School of Economics)


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