Since the British Science Festival’s programme of events for the 2014 festival is now online, you can search through it to find all the mathematical/maths-related events which will be taking place this September in Birmingham. But this is a full-service maths blog, and so you don’t have to because we’ve done it for you. (If you’d rather take a look yourself, the full listing is on the BSA website).
Saturday 6 September 2014
- 10:00-11:30 From Dürer to sudoku: 500 years of recreational maths; organised by Peter Rowlett
- Paper folding and problem solving workshop (Various times throughout the day); Katie Steckles (Think Maths)
- 10:00-17:00 Giant Drawing Machines; Nick Sayers
- 12:00-13:00 The Darwin Award Lecture: What Can Maths Tell Us about How an Animal is Feeling?; Lisa Collins
- 15:00-16:00 The Improbability Principle; David Hand
Sunday 7 September 2014
- 10.00-11.00 Seventeen or Bust: Solving hard mathematical problems with your help!; Iain Bethune
- 10:00-17:00 Giant Drawing Machines; Nick Sayers
- 13:30 – 14:30 Sex, maths and the brain: Where have all the girl scientists gone?; Gina Rippon
- 16:00-17:30 When Fridges Attack: Big Data Meets Intelligent Machines (2014 Mathematical Sciences Presidential Lecture); Peter McOwan, Louis McCallum
Monday 8 September
- 11:00-12:00 Pocket Doctor; Max Little
- 19:30-22:00 Festival of the Spoken Nerd; featuring Matt Parker, Steve Mould and Helen Arney
Wednesday 10 September
- 13:00-14:00 Life Saving Mathematics; Thomas Wooley, Helen Byrne and Gary Mirams
Thursday 11 Septmber
- 12:00-13:00 The Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture: Our Dynamical Sun: a 21st Century view; Ineke De Moortel
In addition, The Young People’s Programme runs all week and includes:
Modular Arithmetic by Joe Watkins
Maths Saves Lives by Louise Orpin
Codes and Codebreaking by Corneliu Hoffman
Designing and Making a Calculator by David Leppinen
Using Maths to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Sara Jabbari
Using Maths to Win at Gameshows by Simon Goodwin
Further Reading
Public Programme Search, on the BSA website