So, we’ve got our schedule of speakers for the Annual TMS Symposium on Sunday 21 February in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.
10:15am – 10:45am: Joy Thompson, “Tissue Mechanics in Early Brain Development”
10:45am – 11:15am: Mary Fortune, “So Your Experiment Hasn’t Worked: How to Lie with Statistics”
11:20am – 12:05pm: Dr. Jonathan Nelson (ATASS Sports), “Smashing the Racket: Detecting Match-fixing in Tennis via In-play Betting Irregularities”
Break
12:45pm – 1:15pm: Jean Pichon, “Semantics”
1:15pm – 2:10pm: Dr. Thomas Forster (DPMMS), “Axiom of Choice”
2:15pm – 2:45pm: Patrick Short, “Mutations in Developmental Disorders”
Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm: Prof. Malcolm Perry (DAMTP), [TBC]
4:00pm – 4:30pm: Lawrence Barrott, [TBC]
4:30pm – 5:30pm: Prof. Miles Reid FRS (Warwick), “Finite Subgroups of SL(2,C) and SL(3,C) and their Role in Algebraic Geometry”
Please find attached a pdf with the abstracts (below), which tell us a bit more about each talk and have a few hints on what the two TBC’s are possibly speaking on – Malcolm Perry’s talk could be particularly exciting: read this article from the Scientific American on his recent work with Stephen Hawking and Andrew Strominger.
Note that admission to any of the symposium talks is free for both non-members and members. There will be refreshments before and after each block of talks, as well as an opportunity to sign up for life membership of the TMS, which costs a paltry two pounds fifty. Hope to see you all there!