Travels in a Mathematical World

Episode 51. Sebastien Guenneau gives some examples from optical wave guides and other areas to highlight the processes which drive applied mathematics research and collaboration.

Episode 50. Dr. Sebastien Guenneau of the University of Liverpool talks about his work on metamaterials and invisibility cloaking.

Episode 49. Peter Rowlett covers basic cryptography including information on cracking the Vigenere cipher. Companion podcast to video lecture at www.historyofmathsandx.co.uk/topics/cryptography

Episode 48. Andrea Donafee speaks about her work for Cash Management Systems in optimisation around managing cash balances.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.