Distinguished Lecture Series
Showing all archived events in this series.
Friday 20th September 16:00-17:00
Rankin Lecture 2024-25 - Random square-tiled surfaces and random multicurves in large genus
Professor Anton Zorich (University of Paris)
Thursday 29th August 18:30-19:30
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Bowman Lecture 2024 - How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of AI
Chris Wiggins (Chief Data Scientist, New York Times)
Tuesday 27th August 16:00-17:00
LT 116, Mathematics and Statistics Building
Mitchell Lecture - Data Science at the New York Times
Chris Wiggins (Chief Data Scientist, New York Times)
Tuesday 21st May 16:00-17:00
LT 116, Mathematics and Statistics Building, UofG
Rankin Lecture 2024
Prof Tim Austin (University of Warwick)
Wednesday 13th March 16:00-17:00
Sneddon Lecture 2024: The Symbiosis in Mathematics-in-Industry
Prof John Ockendon, FRS (University of Oxford)
Thursday 21st September, 2023 15:00-16:00
LT 116 (Maths & Stats Building)
Hardy Lecture - Quantizing via Polytope counting: Old and new
Professor Eva Miranda (UPC Barcelona)
Tuesday 13th June, 2023 16:00-17:00
Mitchell Lecture 2023 - Semiparametric approaches for studying extreme conditional quantiles
Professor Huixia Judy Wang (The George Washington University)
Tuesday 18th April, 2023 16:00-17:00
Lecture Theatre 116
Rankin-Sneddon Lecture 2023: The Social Machine of Mathematics
Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE (University of Edinburgh / University of Oxford)
Thursday 23rd March, 2023 16:00-17:00
Rankin-Sneddon Lecture 2023: Fourier interpolation and the Weil representation
Prof Akshay Venkatesh FRS (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)
Tuesday 21st February, 2023 16:00-17:00
Lecture Theatre 116
[POSTPONED]: Rankin-Sneddon Lecture 2023: The Social Machine of Mathematics
Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE (University of Edinburgh / University of Oxford)
Friday 9th December, 2022 16:30-17:30
Room 116 of Maths & Stats Building
EMS Lecture: Cytoplasmic Streaming and the Swirling Instability of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton
Prof. Raymond Goldstein (University of Cambridge)
Wednesday 30th November, 2022 19:30-20:30
Sir Charles Wilson Building
Bowman Lecture 2022 - Left Behind: How poor places can get trapped, and how they can catch up
Prof. Sir Paul Collier (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 27th September, 2022 16:00-17:00
[CANCELLED] Guest Lecture: Classification of simple amenable C*-algebras
Professor Stuart White (University of Oxford)
Friday 17th June, 2022 16:00-17:00
Joseph Black B419 Main LT (University of Glasgow)
[CANCELLED] Aitken Lecture: Equivalence relations, topology and C*-algebras
Professor Lisa Orloff-Clark (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Tuesday 24th May, 2022 16:00-17:00
Online
Rankin Lecture 2022: What is the telescope conjecture? A walking tour of modern homotopy theory
Professor Doug Ravenel (University of Rochester)
Wednesday 27th April, 2022 16:00-17:00
Online
Mitchell Lecture 2022: Modelling non-Gaussian spatio-temporal processes
Professor Alexandra M. Schmidt (McGill University)
Tuesday 15th March, 2022 16:00-17:00
Online
Sneddon Lecture 2022: Oldroyd B, and not A?
Professor John Hinch, FRS (University of Cambridge)
Monday 18th October, 2021 18:00-20:00
Online
Bowman Lecture 2021 - The Path to Net Zero: data, evidence and policy
Chris Stark & Keith Bell (UK Climate Change Committee)
Tuesday 15th June, 2021 16:00-17:00
Online
Rankin Lecture: Finite Simple Groups - Classification and Applications
Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California)
Tuesday 4th May, 2021 16:00-17:00
Online
Sneddon Lecture: The Beat of Math
Alfio Quarteroni (Politecnico di Milano and EPFL, Lausanne)
Tuesday 16th February, 2021 16:00-17:00
Zoom
Mitchell Lecture: Some Examples at the Interface of “AI” and Dynamic Statistical Models for Complex Environmental and Ecological Data
Professor Christopher Wikle (University of Missouri)
Thursday 10th December, 2020 18:00-19:00
Zoom Webinar
Understanding infectious disease transmission and control - a view from the coalface
Professor Christl Donnely (Imperial College & University of Oxford)
Tuesday 29th September, 2020 17:00-18:00
Online
Billiards on regular polygons - LMS Popular Lecture for Maths Week Scotland
Dr. Diana Davis (Phillips Exeter Academy)
Tuesday 21st April, 2020 16:00-17:00
Online Zoom lecture
Sneddon Lecture: How directed is a directed network?
Professor Robert MacKay, FRS FInstP FIMA (University of Warwick)
Tuesday 18th February, 2020 16:00-17:00
Maths and Stats Building, Room 116
Rankin Lecture: Billiards
Carlos Matheus Silva Santos (CNRS, Paris)
Thursday 3rd October, 2019 17:00-18:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre
LMS Popular Lecture for Maths Week Scotland: A tour of the Mandelbrot set
Holly Krieger (University of Cambridge)
Thursday 19th September, 2019 18:00-19:00
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Bowman Lecture (Inaugural): Trust in Numbers
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, OBE FRS (University of Cambridge)
Wednesday 1st May, 2019 16:00-17:00
Maths and Stats Building, room 116
Mitchell Lecture: Clusters everywhere: A tour of cluster analysis and its application
Professor Brendan Murphy (University College Dublin)
Friday 25th January, 2019 16:00-17:00
Maths 116
Edinburgh Mathematical Society Meeting: Complex dynamics: the intriguing case of wandering domains
Gwyneth Stallard (Open University)
Friday 23rd November, 2018 16:00-17:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT)
Sneddon Lecture: Mathematics for web-like patterns of solitary waves in shallow water
Professor Yuji Kodama (Ohio State University)
Friday 14th September, 2018 16:30-17:30
Graham Kerr Lecture Theatre
Edinburgh Mathematical Society Public Lecture: Mathematical Modelling, Mutations and Metastases: Can We Cure Cancer with Calculus?
Professor Mark Chaplain FRSE (University of St Andrews)
Monday 21st May, 2018 16:00-17:00
Davidson 208
Sneddon Lecture: Active Matter: Statistical Physics and the Arrow of Life
Professor Mike Cates FRS FRSE (University of Cambridge)
Friday 23rd March, 2018 16:00-17:00
Maths 311B
EMS Meeting: Koszul algebras, cohomology and support varieties
Professor Nicole Snashall (University of Leicester)
Tuesday 23rd January, 2018 16:00-17:00
Graham Kerr Building Lecture Theatre (room 224)
Statistics are Patients with the Tears wiped away
Professor Peter Boyle FRSE (Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health)
Friday 1st December, 2017 16:00-17:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT)
Rankin Lecture: Why topology is geometry in dimension 3
Nathan Dunfield ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Thursday 18th May, 2017 16:00-17:00
Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre (Room 103)
Mitchell Lecture: Inference and application of the shared descent of genome in population samples
Elizabeth Thompson (University of Washington)
Tuesday 18th April, 2017 16:00-17:00
Lecture Theatre 2, Boyd Orr Building
Sneddon Lecture: Modelling collective cell movement
Philip Maini (University of Oxford)
Friday 24th March, 2017 16:30-17:30
WILT Lecture Theatre
Rankin Lecture: A machine for constructing representations of R. Thompson’s groups, unitary and otherwise
Vaughan F.R. Jones (Vanderbilt University)
Friday 4th November, 2016 16:00-17:00
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre
What is modern geometry?
Professor Michael Wemyss (University of Glasgow)
Tuesday 25th October, 2016 16:00-17:00
Room 507, Boyd Orr Building.
Probabilistic formal analysis of software usage styles in the wild
Professor Muffy Calder (University of Glasgow)
Monday 22nd June, 2015 16:00-17:00
Maths 516
Symmetry through geometry
Prof Nalini Joshi (University of Sydney)
Wednesday 22nd April, 2015 16:00-17:00
Maths 516
Moving cubes around
Dale Rolfsen (University of British Columbia)
Friday 10th October, 2014 16:00-17:00
Maths 204
Conservation laws: from differential to difference
Prof Peter Hydon (University of Surrey)
Friday 2nd May, 2014 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516
The Dynamos inside our Planets
Prof Chris Jones (University of Leeds)
Thursday 11th July, 2013 14:00-15:00
Mathematics 203 (tea & coffee at 3pm)
Characterization and Modeling of Articular Cartilage: Mathematical Formulations, Experiments and Numerical Examples
Dr. David M. Pierce (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Friday 24th May, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516
Fluid modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration
Prof. H. Huppert FRS (Institute of Theoretical Geophysics DAMTP, Univers)
Friday 10th May, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516
Strange episodes in the evolution of mathematics
Prof. F. Quinn (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit)
Friday 26th April, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516
Energy-driven pattern formation: Optimal crystals
Dr F. Theil (University of Warwick)
Friday 22nd February, 2013 16:00-17:00
Mathematics 516
Topological Data Analysis - applying homology in medicine, robotics, sensor networks, and graphics
Dr Mikael Vejdemo Johansson (KTH, Stockholm)
Monday 3rd December, 2012 14:00-15:00
Maths 515
Applications of geometric mechanics: rigid bodies, fluids, liquid crystals, KdV, Teichmüller geodesics
Prof Tudor Ratiu (EPFL)
Friday 27th April, 2012 16:00-17:00
515
Pure Inductive Logic
Prof. J. Paris FBA (Manchester University)
Friday 23rd March, 2012 16:00-17:00
515
Bayesian nonparametric modelling with Gaussian processes in systems biology
Prof. D. Husmeier (Glasgow University)
Friday 10th February, 2012 16:00-17:00
515
Random matrix theory and the distribution of the primes
Prof. J. Keating FRS (Bristol University)
Friday 27th May, 2011 16:00-17:00
515
Functions of a Matrix: Theory, Applications and Computation
Prof. N. J. Higham (University of Manchester)
Friday 19th November, 2010 16:00-17:00
516
Algebraic Statistics: the new interface
Prof Henry Wynn (London School of Economics)