A podcast with interesting mathematicians talking about their work, maths history and maths news. By Peter Rowlett of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. For more info and show notes visit http://www.travelsinamathe
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 47. Dr Mark Blyth of University of East Anglia (UEA) talks about his work applying fluid dynamics and elastomechanics to problems in biology and medicine. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw47
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 46. Prof Frank Kelly, Master of Christ's College Cambridge, talks about his career researching random processes, networks and optimization both within the University of Cambridge and through corporate collaboration. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw46
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 45. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include the new Lucasian Professor, models of cancer growth and radiation, killer robots, graphic novels and maths A level uptake, plus birthdays for Martin Gardner, the Greenwich Meridian and this podcast. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw45
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 44. Dr Andrew Cates talks about his career working for Shell as strategy consultancy, country manager for Shell in Cote d'Ivoire, as co-ordinating manager for "everything Shell sold to ships worldwide" and in charge of gas and power business in Europe. Andrew also talks his recent work for charity SOS C...hildren, the world's largest orphan and abandoned children's charity. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw44
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 43. Victor Arulchandran of Brunel University talked to me (in a quite noisy tea room!) about his PhD topic looking at wave dispersion and the wide range of applications of that area of mathematics. Victor also talks about the skills he is able to acquire during his PhD which will aide his future career ...aspirations in financial modelling. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw43
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 42. Following on from episode 41 we hear from Professor Ed Galea of the University of Greenwich who talks about his work with the Fire Safety Engineering Group in crowd evacuation modelling. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw42
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 41. In this, part 1 of 2, Professor Ed Galea of the University of Greenwich talks about his career in various aspects of magnetohydrodynamics, from origins in astrophysics and how this led him to industrial steel casting and fire modelling. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw41
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 40. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include Turing, phoney formulae, symmetric dates, politician's understanding of maths, Google Pagerank & ecosystem collapse, school exam results, brain chaos & zombie attacks! http://tinyurl.com/tiamw40
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 39. Beatrice Pelloni, Reader in Applied Mathematics at University of Reading, who I met at the Women in Mathematics Day 2009 spoke to me about her career, the topic of her talk at that event ("Generalised Fourier transforms and boundary value problems") and a little about being both a mother to young ch...ildren and a mathematician. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw39
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 38. David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk talks about his career in statistics and current work in public communication. David speaks about the factors affecting risk-taking and how people perceive risk
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 37. David Mitchell of the University of Edinburgh, who is doing a collaborative PhD between the Schools of Mathematics and Engineering, talks about his area channel coding and about the links between mathematics and engineering. http://tin
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 36. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include evolution of numeracy, electric fish, 'phantom' traffic jams, maths v. superstition, gender, Dara O'Briain, sporting mathematicians, maths teaching and the Roy
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 35. As university students prepare to graduate I ask Terry Edwards about IMA Professional Development and Chartered Mathematician Status. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw35
Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast Podcast episode 34. Dr. Eugenia Cheng from the University of Sheffield talks to me about what she likes about mathematics, her area of category theory and TheCatsters YouTube channel. http://tinyurl.com/tiamw34
