Talks Archive

Below you'll find details of all TMS talks from 1998 onwards. There's also a link at the bottom of the page to a file containing a comprehensive listing of nearly all public TMS meetings since its foundation in 1919.

2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002-03 | 2001-02 | 2000-01 | 1999-2000 | 1998-99 | Earlier talks & complete listing

2007-08

15 October, 2007: Prof. Béla Bollobás (DPMMS)
Set Sums and Projections of Bodies
22 October, 2007: Prof. Neil Turok (DAMTP)
What Banged?
5 November, 2007: Dr Thomas Forster (DPMMS)
Avoiding the Paradoxes by Typing
19 November, 2007: Dr Maciej Dunajski (DAMTP) [Talk notes]
Twistor Transform
26 November, 2007: Mathematical Call My Bluff
21 January, 2008: Prof. Ben Green (DPMMS)
Ramanujan and some of his mathematics
4 February, 2008: Prof. Gary Gibbons (DAMTP) [Talk notes]
The angular sum of a triangle
18 February, 2008: Dr Tom Fisher (DPMMS)
Local-to-global principles in number theory
3 March, 2008: Dr Robert Gramacy (Stats Lab) [Talk notes]
Designing Supercomputer Experiments

2006-07

9 October, 2006: Prof. Tim Gowers, FRS (DPMMS) [Talk notes]
Finding large primes and factorizing large numbers: is there any alternative to a brute-force search?
23 October, 2006: Prof. Andrew Thomason (DPMMS)
Colours, Cycles and the odd Lollipop
6 November, 2006: Dr Emily Shuckburgh (DAMTP) [Talk notes]
The mathematics of weather and climate
20 November, 2006: Prof. Michael Proctor, FRS (DAMTP)
Convective and absolute instabilities in large domains
27 November, 2006: Mathematical Call My Bluff
22 January, 2007: Prof. Imre Leader (DPMMS) [Talk notes]
Vector space marriages
5 February, 2007: Dan Jane (DPMMS)
The Ricci Flow and other maths that look good in pictures
19 February, 2007: Dr David Tong (DAMTP) [Talk notes]
Quantum Geometry: What the String Saw
5 March, 2007: Prof. Jan Saxl (DPMMS)
Some classical group therapy

2005-06

10 October, 2005: Prof. Imre Leader (DPMMS) [Talk notes]
Clueless voting
24 October, 2005: Prof. John Hinch, FRS (DAMTP)
The flow and non-flow of sand grains
7 November, 2005: Dr Arthur Norman (Computing Laboratory)
Computers, calculus and confusion
21 November, 2005: Dr Peter Smith (Faculty of Philosophy) [Talk notes]
Does Gödel's Theorem matter to mathematicians?
28 November, 2005: Mathematical Call My Bluff
23 January, 2006: Prof. Béla Bollobás (DPMMS / Memphis)
Thieves, hobbies and maps
6 February, 2006: Dominic Vella (DAMTP)
Life at interfaces
20 February, 2006: James Cranch (Sheffield)
Spaces for the stable minded
6 March, 2006: Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett (Stats Lab)
Random triangles

Older talks (pre 2005-06):

2004-05

11 October: Prof. Tim Gowers, 'How to think of complicated proofs of simple theorems'
25 October: Prof. Hugh Osborn, 'Anti-commuting Numbers'
8 November: Prof. Martin Hyland, 'The Cayley Numbers'
22 November: Dr Ben Green, 'The mathematics of G.H. Hardy and J.E. Littlewood'
29 November: Mathematical Call My Bluff
24 January: Mr Sam Webster, 'Unanswered Questions in Cosmology'
7 February: Dr Malcolm Perry, 'M Theory'
21 February: Dr Tom Fisher, 'The Geometry of Numbers'
7 March: Prof. Anne Davis, 'Exploring Extra Dimensions through Cosmology'

2003-04

13 October: Prof. Tom Körner, 'Sorting Things Out'.
27 October: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall, 'More Sex and Virgin Mathmos'.
10 November: Prof. David Fremlin, 'Rental Harmony'.
24 November: Dr Robert Hunt, 'What is Maths Useful For?'
1 December: Mathematical Call My Bluff.
19 January: Prof. John Coates, 'The oldest problem'.
26 January: Dr Gabriel Paternain, 'The Poincaré Conjecture'.
16 February: Mr Thomas Barnet-Lamb, 'Homage to Hofstadter, or thereabouts...'.
1 March: Dr Eugenia Cheng, 'Logic vs illogic: why mathematics is easy and life is hard'.

2002-03

14 October: Prof. Tim Gowers, 'A handful of unsolved problems'
28 October: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall, 'Which came first: God or maths?'
11 November: Prof. John Hinch, 'Explaining the Flow of Elastic Liquids'
25 November: Mr Edward Crane, 'Complex dynamics: Julia and the rabbit'
2 December: Mathematical Call my Bluff
20 January: Dr Imre Leader, 'Van der Waerden's theorem'
3 February: Prof. Neil Turok, 'Can We Understand the Universe?'
17 February: Dr Oliver Riordan, 'The Eternity Puzzle'
4 March: Prof. Geoffrey Grimmett, 'Random Mirrors'

2001-02

15 October: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall, 'And now for something completely different—when engineers did maths and mathematicians talked to God'
29 October: Dr Tom Körner, 'From waves to wavelets: 2000 years in under an hour'
12 November: Ms Julia Gog, 'How to model your favourite disease'
26 November: Mathematical Call my Bluff
28 January: Dr Hugh Osborne, 'Conformal symmetry'
11 February: Dr Alan Stacey, 'Why greedy isn't best'
25 February: Dr Keith Carne, 'Geometry for the simple-minded'
4 March: Dr John Lister, 'Dykes'

2000-01

16 October: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Stupid: Why you don't believe Copernicus'
23 October: Dr Martin Hyland, 'What is the Eckmann Hilton Argument?'
7 November: Dr Damon Wischik, 'How (not) to crash the internet'
22 January: Mr Ben Green, 'Hardy and Littlewood'
5 February: Prof. Michael Proctor, 'Patterns and Patches'
19 February: Dr Imre Leader, 'The Axiom of Choice'

1999-2000

11 October: Dr James Norris, 'When does coagulation lead to gelation?'
25 October: Dr A. D. Burbanks, 'Godel, Goodstein, and the Edge of Provability'
8 November: Dr Stephen Siklos, 'Singularities and the Big Bang'
22 November: Dr D. J. Mackay, 'How to Swing'
24 January: Dr A. Iserles, 'Computation in Lie Groups'
7 February: Dr Peter Johnstone, 'De Morgan's Law and the axiom of Part 1A'
21 February: Dr Ruth Williams, 'Which twin is older?'
6 March: Dr Paul Shellard, 'Cosmology, methods and madness'

1998-99

12 October: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall, 'The Trinity Hangman: Local Boy Makes Good'
26 October: Prof. Tim Gowers, 'Is there more to fractal geometry than a few pretty pictures?'
9 November: Dr Hugh Osborn, 'Can relativity be extended to acceleration?'
23 November: Prof. H. E. Huppert, 'How fluid is the Earth—did it move for you?
18 January: Ms Emily Shuckburgh, 'A stirring tale of mixing: Chaotic advection, transport barriers and ozone depletion'
1 February: Prof. Julian Hunt, 'Why does chaos theory lead to overestimate in weather/climatology?'
15 February: Dr Jan Nekovar, 'Symplectic Geometry: from optics to Number Theory'
1 March: Prof. Tim Pedley, 'Bioconvection: Pattern forming in swimming microorganisms'

Earlier talks

An almost complete list of TMS meetings has been compiled by Dr Paul Taylor and more recently maintained by Dr Joseph Myers. Some notes accompany the list.