To keep our Mathematics and Physics programmes relevant to the key industries that our graduates will one day end up in, we invite industry speakers to give special lectures on how they use mathematics and physics in their job. Our modules “Industrial and Financial Mathematics” and “Industrial and Econophysics” aim to expose students to some of the many ways in which physics and mathematics is used to solve “real world” problems. The modules are intended to showcase some of the industrial applications of physics and mathematics with a focus on the finance sector towards the end. Invited industry specialists give the lectures for the industrial, introducing mathematical techniques and physics they have not encountered before. Unlike traditional modules where content is delivered and then assessed, the industrial modules focuses on the ability to self teach complex and unfamiliar mathematics and physics. This simulates a more realistic approach to solving a…

The Creativity Code

a public lecture by

Professor Marcus du Sautoy OBE FRS

Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the Oxford University

Professor of Mathematics and Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Wednesday 15 January 2020

6 pm – 7:20 pm

Newton Lecture Theatre INB0114 in the Isaac Newton building, University of Lincoln

The lecture will be followed by signing the  book “The Creativity Code” by the author. This book (and some others by the same author) will be available to purchase before and after the lecture from a bookstall by “Lindum Books” .

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Humans are increasingly handing over our decision making responsibilities to complex algorithms; whether it’s to decide the music we listen to, the partners we date, or driving our investments. What happens when those algorithms go one step further and learn, adapt, and create like humans? Professor Marcus…

On 28 February – 1 March 2019 Professor Natasha Maurits, who is a Professor of Clinical Neuroengineering at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, has visited our school and delivered a 2 hour lecture as a part of 2nd year Industrial Mathematics module. From November 2018 Natasha is a Visiting Professor of Mathematics for Biomedical Engineering in our school. Two years ago Natasha delivered our 1st Annual Charlotte Scott Lecture in Mathematics.

Nadia Mazza, Brita Nucinkis, Rachel Camina and Anitha Thillaisundaram successfully secured a London Mathematical Society Research Grant. This grant will go towards organising three one-day meetings in April, September and December 2018 at the Universities of Lincoln, Royal Holloway and Lancaster respectively. The Lincoln one-day conference will be themed on the category of totally disconnected locally compact groups and will take place on Friday the 13th of April 2018.

On 4 October 2017 the UoL Eleanor Glanville Center in conjunction with School of Mathematics and Physics organized a screening of “Hidden Figures“, a highly acclaimed film about black female mathematicians who worked at NASA on space programmes. The film is loosely based on true events and real protagonists.

Before the film, Prof Evgeny Khukhro gave a short introduction to the film, describing its mathematical background and some little known historical details about “human computers” who worked on atomic and space programmes in USA and USSR.

What is Mathematics Education, Really?

a public lecture by

Professor Alexandre Borovik

(University of Manchester)

Thursday, 2nd of November 2017,

6:00-7:20 pm

Newton Lecture Theatre  INB0114 in the Isaac Newton building, University of Lincoln

As I argue in my paper, the current crisis in the school level mathematics education is a sign that it reaches a bifurcation point and is under increasing pressure to split in two streams:

* education for a selected minority of children / young people who, in their adult lives, will be filling increasingly small share of jobs which really require mathematical competence (I call them mathematical makers); and

** basic numeracy and mathematics awareness classes for the rest of population, end users of technology saturated by mathematics invisible to them.

In my talk, I will discuss challenges in mathematics education which will arise from this split. This is a theme which is rarely discussed in…