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Conference programme for TMT 2016

Those speakers marked with * have been short-listed for the GCHQ Prize. For more information about each talk, see the abstracts.

Time	Event
10.00	Registration
10.15	Tony Mann and Noel-Ann Bradshaw: Welcome and Introduction
10.30	Andrew Silverman, Birkbeck, University of London, Pascal's Triangle: Beyond the Non-Negative Integers
10.50	Max Masters, University of Greenwich, How I scientifically lost my money on the Grand National
11.10	Rachael Whyman, University of Kent, Tiling Time with Music and Juggling
11.30	Coffee Break (Coffee courtesy of Taylor and Francis)
11.50	*Tom O'Neill, Aberystwyth University, From Butterflies to Bridges: A Study of Wave Propagation Through Periodic Structures OR Georgia Rubinstein, University of East Anglia, The Story of Émilie Du Châtelet
12.10	*Hannah Pybus, University of Nottingham, Mathematical Models of Growth Factor Activation during Bronchoconstriction in Asthma OR Demetra Vasiliou, University of Glasgow, Lagrange's Contribution to Mechanics
12.30	*Matjaz Leonardis, University of Oxford, What group theory is really about
12.50	Lunch
1.45	Splinter Session 1 – attend a choice of 5 streams Maths and the physical world: Andris Thompson, University of East Anglia, Applications of Mathematics to Lepidopterology: Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect Jake Holdroyd, Nottingham Trent University, Bayesian modelling of Platelet Aggregation Daniel Burrows, University of Sussex, Beyond Fourier: A Study of Wavelets Probability and Data: Yiliu Wang, University of Oxford, Paradoxes in Probability Paul Bowen, Coventry University, Self-avoiding walk models for polymers in solution: Monte Carlo investigation of the collapse transition of a walk model Uday Mohur, University of Manchester, Data Analytics and Portfolio Management Quantum: Sahra Ahmed Kulmiya, University of Greenwich, How has abstract mathematics impacted the discovery of the Higgs Boson? Joe Pollard, University of Oxford, Quantum Chaos in the Delta-Kicked Oscillator Alissa Kamilova, Swansea University, Quantum Computing for a Quantum World Algebra and Topology: Thomas Wright, York University, Banach Algebras and Automatic Continuity Cameron Whitehead, University of Oxford, D-modules on singular schemes Henrique Rui Neves Aguiar, University of Oxford, Why Antarctica seems so big GCHQ Shortlist: *Robert Findlay, University of Durham, Classifying Tiling Spaces of the same Cohomology *Chan Bae, University of Oxford, Embedding graphs in ℜ3 without self-intersections *Vitalijs Brejevs, University of Glasgow, Frobenius algebras and cobordism diagrams
2.45	Break
3.05	Splinter Session 2 – attend a choice of 3 streams Optics: Robert Long, Coventry University, Numerical studies of electro-optic properties of PbSe Nano-crystals Andrew Kelly, Birkbeck, University of London, Solving commercial colour-rending problems of LED illumination using multi-die sources and linear programming The Continuum Hypothesis and Chaos: David Paintin, University of East Anglia, The Continuum Hypothesis Jacob Bennett-Woolf, University of Glasgow, Infinity is Weird: The Axiom of Choice And You And You And You And You And You And You And You And You And You... ODEs and PDEs: Ruoyu Wang, University College London, Theory of Distributions and Linear Differential Equations Rasa Giniunaite, University of Warwick, Numerical schemes for geometric PDEs Biological models: Lizhi Zhang, University of Strathclyde, The stability of classic predator-prey models and modification Bin Wang, University of Strathclyde, Comparative Study of Two Epidemic Models on Realistic Networks
3.50	Award of GCHQ Prize
4.00	Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eugenia Cheng, University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the Art Institute of Chicago, Deep Structures: my journey into abstract mathematics Abstract: I will talk about mathematics as a way of thinking, as opposed to a way of calculating the correct answers. I will give a personal account of how I was drawn to more and more abstract mathematics, until I finally found my mathematical home in Category Theory. Abstraction for me is the process of shedding details to get to deep structures that are holding things together. I will describe some of my favourite abstract structures and show how abstraction reveals connections between apparently unrelated ideas.
5.00	Finish

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