2015 LMS London Popular Lectures

UCL Institute of Education (Logan Hall)
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UCL Institute of Education (Logan Hall)

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Warren Street 0.21 miles

The London Mathematical Society Popular Lectures present exciting topics in mathematics (and its applications) to a wide audience. Each year the LMS Popular Lectures feature two lecturers who have been chosen for their mathematical distinction and communication skills.

The 2015 London Popular Lectures will take place on 25 June at 7pm at the UCL Institute of Education. The speakers will be Professor Martin Hairer and Dr Ruth King. Tickets are free but attendees must register online using the address given below.

2015 POPULAR LECTURE ABSTRACTS

Professor Martin Hairer, FRS Regius Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick

The mathematics of randomness

From the gambling machines in a casino to the predictions of next week's weather, the world that surrounds us is governed by seemingly random events. How do mathematicians make sense of this and what does it even mean to 'predict' something inherently random? We will explore these questions and see what are the main guiding principles of our modern understanding of randomness.

Along the way we will see how the works of an 18th century egyptologist and a 19th century biologist allow today's banks to model the stock market.

Dr Ruth King, Reader in Statistics, University of St Andrews (from 1st September, the Thomas Bayes Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh)

How many...? (Estimating population sizes)

The question of "How many...?" arises in many different fields. For many applications, however, it is not possible to simply count the members of the population of interest. For such cases I will discuss mathematical tools that can be applied to provide an estimate of the total population size. Applications range from the number of webpages on the Internet on a given topic or the number of bugs in a computer code to the number of drug addicts or animals in a given area.

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