The Archimedeans


2021-10-22 18:00: Should Type Theory replace Set Theory as the Foundation of Mathematics ? (Prof Thorsten Altenkirch)

2021-11-05 18:00: Chaos: the good, the bad, and the ugly (Prof Jeffery Galkowski)

2021-11-12 18:00: The Development of Mathematical Weather Forecasting (Prof Herbert Huppert)

2021-11-26 18:00: But why the moduli space of curves? (Dr Dhruv Ranganathan)

2022-01-21 18:00: Should we trust statistics about Covid? (Professor David Spiegelhalter)

2022-01-28 18:00: Classical/Quantum duality (Dr Benoit Vicedo)

2022-02-04 18:00: The Future of Mathematics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Professor Gitta Kutyniok)

2022-02-11 18:00: Coffee stains, cells receptors, and time crystals: lessons from the old literature (Professor Raymond E. Goldstein)

2022-02-18 18:00: How to identify knots (Professor Steven Sivek)

2022-02-25 18:00: The living ocean: Mathematical models for ocean biology (Professor John R Taylor)

2022-03-04 18:00: Measuring the Earth: A Slice of Medieval Mathematics (Professor Minhyong Kim (University of Edinburgh))

2022-03-10 18:00: Embedding structures with distortion (Dr András Zsak)

2022-04-08 15:00: 27 lines on a smooth cubic (David Bai)

2022-04-22 15:00: Partitions with Modular Forms (Nicky Wong)

2022-04-29 18:00: The Future of Mathematics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-06 18:00: Pizza and Boardgames Event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-17 18:00: The Power of Two Choices in Random Walks (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-01-20 00:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Ken Ribet (University of California))

2023-01-27 18:00: The Geometry and Topology of SU(2) (Jacob Rasmussen)

2023-02-03 18:00: How to hunt a submarine (Thomas Körner)

2023-02-10 18:00: Some Open Problems (Ben Green (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-17 18:00: Chip-firing on graphs and the geometry of Riemann surfaces (Dhruv Ranganathan (Cambridge))

2023-02-24 18:00: A phenomenological exploration of physics beyond the Standard Model (Dr Maria Ubiali (HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory))

2023-03-03 18:00: In Pursuit of Structure: Why a little randomness (almost) always helps (Julia Wolf (Cambridge University))

2023-10-13 18:30: Long Life Problems (Professor Bela Bollobas)

2023-10-20 18:00: Bayesian Inferences and the Laplace-Bernstein-von Mises Theorem  (Professor Richard Nickl)

2023-10-27 18:00: Geometrical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity (Professor Raymond E. Goldstein)

2023-11-03 18:00: How unique is quantum gravity? (Dr Scott Melville)

2023-11-17 18:00: The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-24 18:00: Ripples in Time: PDE and Gravitation (Professor Claude Warnick)

2024-02-09 18:00: Why exp(pi*sqrt(163)) is almost an integer? (Dr. Rong Zhou)

2024-02-16 18:00: Hilbert’s 6th problem and the quest for mathematical foundations in physics  (Prof. Clément Mouhot)

2024-02-23 18:00: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves (Professor Urlich Sperhake)

2024-03-01 18:00: Symmetry, Simplicity and the Geometry of Area (Professor Ivan Smith)

2024-03-08 18:00: Constraining the birth of our Universe  (Prof. Anthony Challinor)

2024-04-25 17:00: Complex numbers, quaternions, octonions and singular spaces. (Prof. Simon Donaldson FRS)