Would you like to hear a maths lecture in your school/college?
The following members of the School of Mathematics are willing to visit you and give a talk of mutually agreed duration at a mutually agreed time. Talks are mainly intended for sixth formers but, in some cases, they might be accessible to some students in earlier years. To enquire about having a lecturer visit you, you are, in the first instance, invited to contact Professor S.M. Tobias at the School of Mathematics. Tel 0113 343 5172: e-mail smt@maths.leeds.ac.uk
| Speaker |
Title |
| Prof. Garth Dales |
(1) Maths at Leeds
(2) Counting the real numbers (6th form only)
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| Dr. Alan Slomson |
(1) How to count, probably
(2) Polynomials and all that
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| Dr. Vladimir Kisil |
Symmetries around us
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| Prof. Jonathan Partington |
(1) Paradoxes and unplayable games (light hearted, elementary)
(2) What did Fourier do and what do people do now?
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| Prof. John Truss |
(1) Polyhedra
(2) Infinite sets - and other talks offered
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| Dr. David Salinger |
(1) Coding messages
(2) Untying knots
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| Dr. Kevin Houston |
(1) Maths and Magic
(2) Catastrophe!
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| Dr. Daniel Read |
Funny fluids and soft stuff: polymers, pizzas and Bird's custard
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| Prof. David Hughes |
Chaos: complicated behaviour from simple equations
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| Dr. Lionel Elliot |
Mathematics related to flying a glider
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| Prof. Sam Falle |
(1) Detonations
(2) Supernovae
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| Prof. Steven Tobias |
Chaos, sunspots and global warming
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| Prof. Chris Jones |
(1) Packing Problems
(2) Mathematics and the Solar System
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| Dr. Rob Sturman |
The Sound of Music
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| Dr. Eric Cole |
Space, Time and Cosmology.
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| Dr. Reg Allenby |
(1) 1729 and all that
(2) Primes, modular arithmetic and secret codes
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| Prof. Dugald Macpherson |
(1) The random graph
(2) Primes and public key cryptography
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| Dr. Oliver Harlen |
Wobbly bridges: Tacoma Narrows and the Millennium bridge
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| Dr. Paul Baxter |
(1) Lies, damned lies and statistics
(2) Paradoxes in probability and statistics: gambling and gender bias in undergraduate admissions.
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| Prof. Alastair Rucklidge |
The Mathematics of Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
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| Mr. Tom Roper |
(1) Fibonacci and his rabbits (2hr workshop)
(2) Mathematical modelling in shape and space (2hr workshop)
(3) The mathematics of bowls
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| Prof. Alexander Verentennikov |
(1) Pascal triangle
(2) Combinatorics
(3) The induction method and what is called proof in mathematics
(4) Complex numbers and how useful they can be in A-level mathematics.
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| Dr. Andrew Baczkowski |
Ten ways to fail a statistics examination!
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| Dr. Stuart Barber |
(1) How to lie with statistics
(2) Random numbers: How to make them and what to use them for
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| Dr. Thomas Wagenknecht |
(1) Big networks and small worlds
(2) Cobwebs, pendulums and butterflies - the maths of chaos
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