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Travels in a Mathematical World
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A podcast from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). Episodes include mathematicians talking about their work in mathematics, maths history and maths news. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk
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Travels in a Mathematical World Episodes - | 54 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | Episode 54. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include digits of pi, how mathematicians think, maths books, Marcus du Sautoy OBE, the Mandelbulb, Islamic maths at the Science Museum, news about the numbers on maths degrees and maths teacher training, gender in maths, creative teaching approaches, autonomous unicycles, what fungus-like slime says about wireless communications and a little satire. For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 54 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | Play in Popup.
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| 52 - Jackie Grinsell, Mathematics teaching | Episode 52. Jackie Grinsell, Head of Mathematics, Purbrook Park School, Waterlooville, talks about her career as a maths teacher. This recording was made during a careers event at the University of Portsmouth. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 52 - Jackie Grinsell, Mathematics teaching | Play in Popup.
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| 45 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | 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. For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 45 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | Play in Popup.
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| 44 - Andrew Cates, his career | 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 Children, the world's largest orphan and abandoned children's charity. This recording was made live during the panel discussion at the Young Researchers in Mathematics 2009 Conference at the University of Cambridge. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 44 - Andrew Cates, his career | Play in Popup.
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| 43 - Victor Arulchandran, wave dispersion and PhD skills | 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. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 43 - Victor Arulchandran, wave dispersion and PhD skills | Play in Popup.
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| 40 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | 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! For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 40 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | Play in Popup.
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| 39 - Beatrice Pelloni, Applications of Fourier transforms | 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 children and a mathematician. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 39 - Beatrice Pelloni, Applications of Fourier transforms | Play in Popup.
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| 38 - David Spiegelhalter, Public understanding of risk | 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. Last episode before summer break. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 38 - David Spiegelhalter, Public understanding of risk | Play in Popup.
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| 36 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | 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 Royal Society Summer Science. For more info and show notes, including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 36 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | Play in Popup.
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| 32 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | Episode 32. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news. Topics include Wolfram|Alpha, mathematicians and the credit crunch, the Christopher Zeeman medal for Ian Stewart, six degrees of seperation, quantum computing, weather forecasting and mathematical films. For more info and show notes including links to all stories mentioned visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 32 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd | Play in Popup.
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| 31 - Matt Parker, Maths communication | Episode 31. Matt Parker, a maths teacher, talks about his work communicating maths in ways that enthuse school students. Includes a live recording with funny gases - helium and sulfur hexafluoride - and a conversation covering maths in the simpsons, getting into teaching and the odds of winning the lottery. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 31 - Matt Parker, Maths communication | Play in Popup.
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| 27 - Oliver Jensen, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009 | Episode 27. Immediately following the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) 2009, I sat down with Professor Oliver Jensen of the University of Nottingham and Co-Chair of the BAMC for a retrospective on the conference and what work is current in applied mathematics. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 27 - Oliver Jensen, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009 | Play in Popup.
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| 25 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Fibonacci | Episode 25. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life and works of Fibonacci. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 25 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Fibonacci | Play in Popup.
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| 23 - Paul Shepherd, Decimation and Subdivision | Episode 23. Dr. Paul Shepherd of the University of Bath speaks about two aspects of 3D modelling - decimation and subdivision. Paul also talks about what a mathematician can bring the world of engineering and architecture. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 23 - Paul Shepherd, Decimation and Subdivision | Play in Popup.
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| 22 - Mike Maher, Transport Modelling | Episode 22. Mike Maher, Professor of the Mathematical Analysis of Transport Systems at the Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds University. Mike sat down with me at the University of Edinburgh and talked about his work in transport modelling. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 22 - Mike Maher, Transport Modelling | Play in Popup.
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| 21 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Turing | Episode 21. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Alan Turing. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 21 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Turing | Play in Popup.
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| 18 - Jane Wess, Science Museum | Episode 18. Jane Wess tells me about the mathematics collection at the Science Museum. This includes Napier's Bones and there is a video of Jane demonstrating Napier's Bones at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nWT-zbb3s8. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 18 - Jane Wess, Science Museum | Play in Popup.
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| 16 - Chris Bailey, Cutty Sark Restoration | Episode 16. Professor Chris Bailey from the University of Greenwich talks about his work in using mathematics to predict the reliability and maintainability of real material structures and how this work is applied to projects including the conservation and restoration of the Cutty Sark. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 16 - Chris Bailey, Cutty Sark Restoration | Play in Popup.
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| 11 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Euler | Episode 11. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Leonhard Euler. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 11 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Euler | Play in Popup.
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| 6 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Galois | Episode 6. In the regular Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks about the life of Evariste Galois. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 6 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Galois | Play in Popup.
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| 2 - History - Newton and Leibniz | Episode 2. In the first of our Maths History series, Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich and also Meetings Co-ordinator of the British Society for the History of Mathematics talks through a little of the history around Isaac Newton and Gottfried von Leibniz. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk | Get at Short URL | Download 2 - History - Newton and Leibniz | Play in Popup.
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