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.
2018-present | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 | 2014-15 |2013-14 |2012-13 |2011-12 | 2010-11 | 2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002-03 | 2001-02 | 2000-01 | 1999-2000 | 1998-99 | Earlier talks & complete listing
2018-present
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 14 May 2025 | Peer Talks | |
| 7 May 2025 | Prof Nigel Hitchin | Atiyah Lecture: Gauge theories and algebraic curves |
| 17 March 2025 | Dr Kasia Warburton | Understanding glacier stability |
| 10 March 2025 | Prof Richard Nickl | Bayesian inference for infinite dimensional dynamical systems and ‘data-assimilation’ |
| 9 March 2025 | Annual Dinner | |
| 3 March 2025 | Prof Ben Green | Besicovitch sets and the Kakeya conjecture |
| 17 Feb 2025 | Dr Andjela Sarkovic | Picking a spanning tree at random |
| 10 Feb 2025 | Prof Harvey Reall | What happens if you fall into a black hole? |
| 3 Feb 2025 | Prof Mike Tehranchi | Fun with convexity |
| 27 Jan 2025 | Prof Tom Fisher | Local-to-global principles in number theory |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Peer Talks | |
| 18 Nov 2024 | Dr Dominic Yeo | From random walks to permutations (and back again!) |
| 11 Nov 2024 | Dr Anthony Ashton | Oscillatory Integrals: from the concrete to the abstract |
| 4 Nov 2024 | Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter | The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Change, Ignorance, Risk, and Luck |
| 28 Oct 2024 | Prof Imre Leader | Tournaments |
| 21 Oct 2024 | Prof John Lister | Spreading Golden Syrup |
| 19 May 2024 | Annual Dinner | |
| 25 April 2024 | Prof Sir Simon Donaldson | Atiyah Lecture: Complex numbers, quaternions, octonions and singular spaces |
| 12 March 2024 | Prof Timothy Gowers | The hidden structure of sunsets |
| 6 March 2024 | Dr Dominic Yeo | Scenery reconstruction |
| 26 Feb 2024 | Prof Tom Fisher | Elliptic curves in geometry and arithmetic |
| 19 Feb 2024 | Prof John Lister | Stretching, bending, twisting and coiling: the fluid-mechanical sewing machine |
| 12 Feb 2024 | Dr Oliver Janzer | Ramsey numbers and generalised Ramsey numbers |
| 5 Feb 2024 | Prof Wendelin Werner | Drawing at random |
| 22 Jan 2024 | Prof David Khmelnitskii | |
| 27 Nov 2023 | Dr Monica Kang | Operator algebra in AdS/CFT |
| 20 Nov 2023 | Dr Zoe Wyatt | Travelling Waves |
| 13 Nov 2023 | Prof Sean Hartnoll | Entropy: From Steam Engines to Black Holes and Quantum Computers |
| 6 Nov 2023 | Prof Andrea J Liu | Persistent homology for understanding protein allostery |
| 1 Nov 2023 | Mr Akuan Liu | Quantitative Research at Jump Trading |
| 27 Oct 2023 | Mr Fredy Yip | History and Construction of Brownian Motion |
| 9 Oct 2023 | Prof Imre Leader | Thinking in Higher Dimensions |
| 29 May 2023 | Annual Dinner | |
| 11 May 2023 | Prof Qingyuan Zhao | Causal inference: From Mathematical Theory to Scientific Practice |
| 27 Feb 2023 | Prof Ioannis Kontoyiannis | Entropy |
| 20 Feb 2023 | Prof Richard Samworth | Stein’s paradox |
| 6 Feb 2023 | Prof Michael Proctor FRS | Rolls, squares and hexagons: Pattern formation through instabilities |
| 5 Dec 2022 | Prof Ulrike Tillman | Topology and Data |
| 20 Nov 2022 | Prof Po-Ling Low | Statistical inference for infectious disease modeling |
| 7 Nov 2022 | Prof Benedikt Löwe | Arithmetic and its Strange Models |
| 31 Oct 2022 | Prof Mihalis Dafermos | Penrose’s Incompleteness Theorem |
| 17 Oct 2022 | Prof Maciej Dunajski | Four Facets of Geometry |
| 10 Oct 2022 | Prof Béla Bollobás FRS | Mathematics with Minimum Raw Material |
| 16 March 2022 | Annual Dinner | |
| 14 March 2022 | Dr Racehl Camima | Coverings of groups |
| 28 Feb 2022 | Prof Jacob Rasmussen | Knots and Graphs: from Tait to Thistlethwaite |
| 21 Feb 2022 | Prof Gordon Ogilvie | Astrophysical discs – from Saturn’s rings to black holes |
| 14 Feb 2022 | Prof Thomas William Körner | Mathematics and Smallpox |
| 31 Jan 2022 | Sir Timothy Gowers | Human-oriented automatic theorem proving |
| 15 Nov 2021 | Prof Julijana Gjorgjieva | Understanding how networks in the brain grow and compute |
| 1 Nov 2021 | Dr Vicky Neale | Waring’s problem |
| 25 Oct 2021 | Dr Andreas Steiger | The Riemann zeta function and families of L-functions |
| 20 Oct 2021 | Mr Akuan Liu | Algorithmic trading and quantitative finance |
| 11 Oct 2021 | Prof Imre Leader | Tournaments |
| 22 March 2021 | Prof Leonard Susskind | String Theory |
| 15 March 2021 | Dr Henry Wilton | Geometry without Calculus |
| 8 March 2021 | Prof Ana Caravan | Algebraic Number Theory |
| 1 March 2021 | Prof Emily Riehl | Category Theory |
| 22 Feb 2021 | Prof David Conlon | Combinatorics |
| 15 Feb 2021 | Prof Piers Coleman | Atoms, Particles and Fractionalisation |
| 1 Feb 2021 | Dr Jeremy Butterfield | A Philosopher Looks at Multiverse Proposals |
| 23 Nov 2020 | Prof Michel Goemans | Discrete Optimisation |
| 16 Nov 2020 | Prof Ken Ono | Why does Ramanujan “The Man Who Knew Infinity” Matter? |
| 9 Nov 2020 | Prof Simon Brendle | Differential Geometry and PDEs |
| 2 Nov 2020 | Prof Subir Sachdev | Quantum Physics |
| 26 Oct 2020 | Prof Lisa Piccirillo | Topology/Knot Theory |
| 19 Oct 2020 | Prof Frank Wilczek (2004 Nobel Prize) | Quantum Physics |
| 12 Oct 2020 | Prof Béla Bollobás FRS | Combinatorics |
| 7 March 2020 | Symposium and Annual Dinner | |
| 24 Feb 2020 | Prof John Lister | The fluid-mechanics of CO2 sequestration |
| 20 Jan 2020 | Dr Thomas Crawford | Using maths to clean-up our oceans |
| 2 Dec 2019 | Prof Caucher Birkar | Some elements of algebraic geometry |
| 18 Nov 2019 | Dr Rajen Shah | High-dimensional data and the Lasso |
| 28 Oct 2019 | Prof Mihalis Dafermos | Is classical physics deterministic? |
| 21 Oct 2019 | Dr Roland Bauerschmidt | The Universality Phenomenon |
| 14 Oct 2019 | Prof Imre Leader | Higher Dimensions |
| 11 March 2019 | Prof Eric Lauga | How to Build Mathematical Models |
| 4 March 2019 | Prof Pelham Wilson | Elliptical billiards and Poncelet trajectories |
| 25 Feb 2019 | Dr Julia Wolf | Addition, multiplication, and why they don’t get along |
| 23 Feb 2019 | Symposium and Centenary Dinner | |
| 18 Feb 2019 | Dr Hamza Fawzi | Sum-of-squares proofs |
| 11 Feb 2019 | Prof Imre Leader | The Continuum Hypothesis |
| 4 Feb 2019 | Prof David Tong | Are we living in the matrix? |
| 19 Nov 2018 | Prof Michael Proctor | Rolls, Squares and Hexagons: pattern formation through instabilities |
| 12 Nov 2018 | Dr Arieh Iserles | Approximation on the Real Line |
| 29 Oct 2018 | Prof Richard Samworth | Stein’s paradox |
| 12 Oct 2018 | Prof Béla Bollobás | A Simple Proof of a Major Result |
2017-18
- 9 October, 2017: Prof Imre Leader (DPMMS) Infinite Games
- 16 October, 2017: Dr Andras Zsak (DPMMS) Embedding Structures with Distortion
- 23 October, 2017: Dr Michael Tehranchi (Statslab) The Prices of Call Options
- 30 October, 2017: Pub Crawl
- 6 November, 2017: Dr Jason Miller (Statslab) Random Trees
- 13 November, 2017: Film Night – “Hidden Figures”
- 20 November, 2017: Dr Emily Shuckburgh (DAMTP) From Flatland to Our Land – A Mathematician’s Journey through our Changing Planet
- 27 November, 2017: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 22 January, 2018: Dr Sebastian Andres (Statslab) Loop Erased Random Walks, Uniform Spanning Trees and Percolation
- 5 February, 2018: Dr Holly Krieger (DPMMS) A Tour of the Mandelbrot Set
- 19 February, 2018: Dr Tim Griffin (Computer Science) Adventures in Algebraic Path Problems
- 5 March, 2018: Prof Colm-Cille Caulfield (DAMTP) The Mathematics of Spin
2016-17
- 10 October, 2016: Prof David Tong (DAMTP) The Quantum Hall Effect
- 14 October, 2016: Prof Béla Bollobás (DPMMS) Polynomials in Combinatrics and Topology
- 24 October, 2016: Dr Marj Batchelor (DPMMS) The Rewards of Thinking Coalgebraically
- 31 October, 2016: Prof Jonathan Mestel (Imperial) More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys
- 7 November, 2016: Dr Perla Sousi (Statslab) Percolation and Random Walks
- 14 November, 2016: Prof Imre Leader (DPMMS) Cops and Robbers
- 21 November, 2016: Dr Bursill-Hall + Dr Forster (DPMMS) Infinitesimals
- 28 November, 2016: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 23 January, 2017: Dr Tamara von Glehn (DPMMS) Logic in other universes
- 30 January, 2017: Prof John Lister (DAMTP) Stretching, bending, twisting and coiling how to build a fluid-mechanical sewing machine
- 6 February, 2017: Dr Julia Gog (DAMTP) Hunting for viral packaging signals
2014-15
- 13 October, 2014: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall(DPMMS)Pythagoras never existed. You have been lied to and all school maths is false
- 20 October, 2014: Dr Perla Sousi(Statslab)[Notes] A lost man will reach home, but a lost bird will be lost forever
- 27 October, 2014: Dr Julia Gog(DAMTP)Embarrassing diseases
- 3 November, 2014: Dr Daniel Baumann(DAMTP)The Quantum Origin of Structure in the Universe
- 10 November, 2014: Dr James Cranch(Sheffield)Which real numbers are pleasant?
- 17 November, 2014: Prof Ben Allanach(DAMTP)Possible hints for supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider
- 24 November, 2014: Dr Nathanael Berestycki(Statslab)Emergence of symmetry in planar probability
- 1 December, 2014: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 19 January, 2015: Film NightA Beautiful Mind
- 26 January, 2015: Prof Tim Gowers(DPMMS)Can interesting mathematics problems be solved systematically?
- 2 February, 2015: Dr Milan Vojnovic(Microsoft Research)How to divide prize money?
- 9 February, 2015: Dr Paul Birrell(MRC Biostatistics Unit)The anatomy of an influenza pandemic
- 16 February, 2015: Dr Henry Wilton(DPMMS)The Banach-Tarski Paradox
- 23 February, 2015: TMS Symposium
- 2 March, 2015: Prof Imre Leader & Dr Thomas Forster(DPMMS)This house believes that the continuum is not always a continuum.
- 9 March, 2015: Dr Eric Lauga(DAMTP)The mathematical life of microbes
2013-14
- 14 October, 2013: Dr. Piers Bursill-Hall(DPMMS)God, as you know, is a Trinity man, but is She a mathmo?
- 21 October, 2013: Prof. Imre Leader/Dr. Thomas Forster(DPMMS)[Notes] Does Mathematics need a Philosophy?
- 28 October, 2013: Dr. Hugh Hunt (Engineering Department)Maths problems in Engineering – Handling Infinity
- 4 November, 2013: Prof. Tom Körner(DPMMS)Thinking at Random
- 11 November, 2013: Prof. Jonathan Mestel(Imperial)[Notes]Carry on taking Fluids!
- 18 November, 2013: Prof. Sheila Bird OBE FRSE(MRC Biostatics Unit)Do Pharmacological Interventions Reduce Drugs-Related Deaths? What Statistical Methods are There – and How Can we Use them to Find Out?
- 25 November, 2013: Dr. Vicky Neale(DPMMS)Some Unsung Mathematical Heroines
- 2 December, 2013: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 20 January, 2014: Prof. Béla Bollobás(DPMMS)Ancient Problems Today
- 27 January, 2014: Prof. Raymond Goldstein(DAMTP)Synchronization of Cilia
- 3 February, 2014: Prof. Michael Atiyah(University of Edinburgh)[Notes & Pictures]Mathematicians I Have Known
- 10 February, 2014: Prof. David Tong(DAMTP)[Notes] Magnetic Monopoles
- 17 February, 2014: Dr. Helen Mason(DAMTP)Our Active Sun
- 23 February, 2014: TMS Symposium [Notes for Dr Goedecke’s talk on PhDs in Mathematics]
- 3 March, 2014: Dr. Mike Tehranchi(Stats Lab)Fun with Gaussian Measures
- 10 March, 2014: Dr. Rachel Camina(DPMMS)Conjugacy Classes in Finite Groups
2012-13
- 8 October, 2012: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall(DPMMS)Why Mathmos Rule the World: Always Have, Always Will
- 15 October, 2012: Prof. David Spiegelhalter(StatsLab) Numeracy and the Media: is it a Lost Cause?
- 22 October, 2012: Dr David Acheson (University of Oxford)What’s the Problem with Maths?
- 29 October, 2012: Dr Julia Gog(DAMTP)Why Biologists Need Mathmos
- 12 November, 2012: Prof. Ben Green(DPMMS)The Sylvester-Gallai Theorem
- 19 November, 2012: Prof. Hugh Osborn(DAMTP)Pulling Oneself Up By One’s Bootstraps in Theoretical Physics
- 26 November, 2012: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 21 January, 2013: Dr. Thomas Forster and Prof. Imre Leader(DPMMS)This House Does Not Accept the Axiom of Choice: A Debate
- 28 January, 2013: Prof. Martin Hyland(DPMMS)Understanding the Lambda Calculus: 40 Years in the Dark
- 4 February, 2013: Prof. Grae Worster(DAMTP)Marine Ice Sheets
- 11 February, 2013: Dr. Susan Pitts(StatsLab)Risk and Ruin
- 18 February, 2013: Dr. Julia Goedecke(DPMMS)Abstraction in Mathematics
- 24 February, 2013: TMS Symposium
- 4 March, 2013: Prof. Simon Tavaré(DAMTP)Combinatorics and Cancer
- 11 March, 2013: Prof. Michael Proctor(DAMTP)So Many Dynamos
2011-12
- 10 October, 2011: Dr Piers Bursill-Hall(DPMMS)God, as you know, is a Trinity woman
- 24 October, 2011: Prof Zoubin Ghahramani (Dept. of Engineering)
Probabilistic Learning Machines and the Information Revolution [talk notes] - 31 October, 2011: Prof. Béla Bollobás(DPMMS)Long Life Problems
- 3 November, 2011: Prof Kevin Buzzard(Imperial College)Think locally, Act Globally
- 21 November, 2011: Dr Natalia Berloff(DAMPT)Superfluid States of Matter: from Superfluid Helium to Polariton Condensates
- 4 February, 2012: Prof John Lister(DAMPT)Stretching, Bending, Twisting and Coiling; Building a Fluid-Mechanical Sewing Machine. [talk notes]
- 20 February, 2012: Prof Gabriel Paternain(DPMMS)Contact Geometry in Dynamics: the 3-Body Problem
- 5 March, 2012: Prof Geoffrey Grimmett(Stats Lab)Y-Δ
- 12 March, 2012: Prof Timothy Gowers(DPMMS)How to Define Enormous Positive Integers
2010-11
- 11 October, 2010: Prof Imre Leader(DPMMS)Van der Waerden’s Theorem
- 25 October, 2010: Dr David Tong(DAMTP)Physics and the Integers
- 8 November, 2010:()PhD Student Talks
- 22 November, 2010: Prof Martin Hyland(DPMMS)CANCELLED: Quadratic Algebras and Operads
- 29 November, 2010: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 24 January, 2011: Prof Terence Tao(UCLA Dept of Mathematics)The Universality Phenomenon
- 7 February, 2011: Dr James Cranch(University of Leicester)Mythical beasts in algebra
- 21 February, 2011: Prof Martin Hyland(DPMMS)Quadratic algebras and operads
- 7 March, 2011: Dr Richard Nickl(Statslab)Gauss’ invention of the method of least squares and the normal distribution, and its impact on the mathematical foundations of statistics
2009-10
- 12 October, 2009: Dr Mike Tehranchi (Stats Lab) [Talk notes]What is Brownian motion?
- 26 October, 2009: Dr Colm-cille Caulfield(DAMTP)Dimensional analysis and similarity solutions: How to get physics to do mathematics for you
- 9 November, 2009: Film Night(800th Meeting)N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos
- 23 November, 2009: Dr Gabriel Paternain(DPMMS)Hydrodynamics and contact topology
- 30 November, 2009: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 18 January, 2010: Paul Smith(DPMMS)How to cheat at infinite coin tossing
- 1 February, 2010: Dr Jacob Rasmussen(DPMMS)Vectors and spheres
- 15 February, 2010: Prof David Spiegelhalter, FRS(Statslab)Quantifying epistemic uncertainty: How ignorant are you?
- 1 March, 2010: Dr Jeremy Butterfield (Faculty of Philosophy) [Talk notes]The uses of infinity: Emergent phenomena in physics
2008-09
- 13 October, 2008: Dr Ivan Smith(DPMMS)Billiards and Beyond
- 27 October, 2008: Prof Raymond Lickorish(DPMMS)Knots and Links
- 10 November, 2008: Imran Coomaraswamy, Vicky Neale, Sean Lip(DAMTP, DPMMS, DAMTP)Short Talks by Graduate Students
- 24 November, 2008: Prof John Barrow(DAMTP)On Pictures in Mathematics
- 1 December, 2008: Mathematical Call My Bluff
- 19 January, 2009: Prof. Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer(DPMMS)Rational points on cubic curves, or how to be famous without proving anything
- 2 February, 2009: Dr. Peter Friz(Statslab)From Lie groups to option pricing
- 19 February, 2009: Prof. Mike Proctor(DAMTP)Instability and pattern formation
- 2 March, 2009: Dr. Jeremy Butterfield(Faculty of Philosophy)Mixing physics and logic: is a quantum system an object?
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.