For a number of years, the IMA has been running a series of conferences to promote mathematics with the aim of demonstrating to both mathematicians and non-mathematicians the many uses of modern mathematics.
This summer, due to Covid19, IMA Mathematics 2020 will be run virtually in a series of weekly two hour events, starting on Tuesday 14 July 2020 with the IMA Presidential Address. Other talks will cover areas such as defence, regulation, privacy enhancing technologies and modelling in industrial maintenance and reliability.
See below for further information.
Conference Schedule
Week One - Tuesday 14 July 2020
10am-11am - Nira Chamberlain - Presidential Address -- Building a Powerful Mathematical Identity!
“When I stand at the foot of the Eiffel Tower and look up, I see the names of mathematicians. When I stand at the foot of Big Ben, I see none. Mathematicians should not be afraid to be, or apologise for being, a mathematician. Mathematicians must know their value and worth in any arena they enter.
In this talk I will discuss lessons learnt from my mathematical journeys, from Academia to Industry, from Engineering to Retail, and finally from debating with Radio DJs and to challenging leading politicians. As a mathematics community we not only need to build a powerful mathematical identity, we need to embrace it!”
Week Two- Wednesday 22 July 2020
2pm-3pm - Ned Allen & Kristen Pudenz - Talk Title TBC
3pm-4pm - Jane Hutton - Maths & Stats for Effective Regulation
Week Three - Thursday 30 July 2020
10am-11am - Chris Budd - V-KEM
11am-12pm - Nigel Smart - Privacy Enhancing Technologies
"I will discuss how the technology of MPC and FHE is changing the way people process data, by allowing them to compute on data whilst it is “encrypted”. I will also discuss a number of use cases of the technology. The talk will not go into technical details, and thus you do not need to understand any cryptography for the talk."
Registration
Registration is currently open at https://my.ima.org.uk/If you are an IMA Member or you have previously registered for an IMA conference, then you are already on our database. Please “request a new password” using the email address previously used, to log in.
Further information
For general conference queries please contact the Conferences Team
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0) 1702 354 020
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1EF, UK.
