Amazing Maths seminars
The Amazing Maths seminars aim to give undergraduate mathematics students a flavour of mathematics research beyond the core curriculum.
Seminar details
The Amazing Maths seminars are held from 5-6pm on Fridays. Please contact the organiser Dr Andrea Prinsloo for further details.
These seminars are organised in collaboration with the Maths Society at the University of Surrey.
A full list of Undergraduate Mathematics seminars at the University of Surrey is available at Department of Mathematics seminars.
Upcoming seminars
Mathematical Psychology: from financial modelling to election strategy
Speaker: Dorje Brody (Quantum Foundations Centre, and Data Science and Dynamics Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Friday 10 March 2023
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Past seminars
The Platonic solids and their 4-dimensional counterparts
Speaker: Wajid Mannan (Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey)
Date: Friday 17 February 2023
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Invisible in the Storm: the role of mathematics in understanding weather
Speaker: Ian Roulstone (Nonlinear Waves and Geometric Fluid Dynamics Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Friday 18 November 2022
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The weird world of black holes
Speaker: Jan Gutowski (Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Friday 7 October 2022
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Mathematics, Machine Learning and Medicine
Speaker: Philip Aston (Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 11 May 2022
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Quantum Mechanics’ strangest puzzle
Speaker: Alessandro Torrielli (Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 16 February 2022
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How does a machine learn?
Speaker: Stefan Klus (Data Science and Dynamics Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 1 December 2021
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Spheres, hyperspheres, and the human shoulder
Speaker: Tom Bridges (Nonlinear Waves and Geometric Fluid Dynamics Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 6 October 2021
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To sleep, perchance to dream... of Maths
Speaker: Anne Skeldon (Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 28 April 2021
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Solving the unsolvable
Speaker: David Fisher (Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 24 February 2021
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Classical and quantum many-body chaos
Speaker: Masanori Hanada (Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 25 November 2020
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Constructing an experimental design by colouring vertices
Speaker: Janet Godolphin (Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2020
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Materials with memory: modelling and applications
Speaker: Jonathan Bevan (Dynamical Systems and PDEs Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Wednesday 7 October 2020
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Invisible in the Storm: the role of mathematics in the development of weather and climate prediction
Speaker: Ian Roulstone (Nonlinear Waves and Geometric Fluid DynamicsGroup, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 7 May 2020
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Fractals and dimension
Speaker: Ian Morris (Dynamical Systems and PDEs Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 5 March 2020
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Mathematical oncology
Speaker: Carina Dunlop (Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 20 February 2020
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Distributions and Dirac delta functions
Speaker: Sergey Zelik (Dynamical Systems and PDEs Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 12 December 2019
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Coming up with prices from mathematical logic
Speaker: Dorje Brody (Data Science and Dynamics Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 31 October 2019
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The weird world of black holes
Speaker: Jan Gutowski (Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 17 October 2019
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Under the weather
Speaker: Natalie Douglas (University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 14 March 2019
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Solving the unsolvable
Speaker: David Fisher (University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 28 February 2019
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To sleep, perchance to dream... of maths
Speaker: Anne Skeldon (University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 14 February 2019
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Why string theory?
Speaker: Martin Wolf (University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 8 November 2018
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Mathematical modelling of the control and spread of disease
Speaker: Stephen Gourley (University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 25 October 2018
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Light from infinity: What we learn from paradoxes in mathematics?
Speaker: Dorje Brody (University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 11 October 2018
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From Newton’s iterative method to parallel computing
Speaker: Bin Cheng (Fluids, Meteorology and Symmetry Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 26 April 2018
Latin squares and the design of experiments
Speaker: Janet Godolphin (Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 15 March 2018
The Poincaré Conjecture
Speaker: James Grant (Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 15 February 2018
Boltzmann’s dilemma: An introduction to statistical mechanics via the kac ring
Speaker: Claudia Wulff (Dynamical Systems and PDEs Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 9 November 2017
Turing Machines: The mathematics of computers
Speaker: David Lloyd (Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 26 October 2017
Quantum mechanics’ strangest puzzle
Speaker: Alessandro Torrielli (Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, University of Surrey)
Date: Thursday 12 October 2017