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Travels in a Mathematical World is a mathematics (or maths or math, if you like) podcast by Peter Rowlett, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, featuring mathematicians talking about their work as well as features on maths history and maths news. Scroll down to access all previous episodes of the podcast and their show notes, or subscribe using the links below.
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Travels in a Mathematical World Finale
30 July 2010
Travels in a Mathematical World is a set of 64 podcast episodes from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Hear mathematicians speaking in their own words about their work, their careers, interesting areas of maths they've worked in and maths history. Hear the variety of work mathematicians do.
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Episode 64 - Peter McOwan, his career
27 July 2010
Episode 64. Peter McOwan talks about his career, particularly how mathematics helped him work in mathematical physics, medical imaging, computer-generated holography, optical neural networks, psychology, cybernetics, mathematical modelling of the biological brain, optical illusions, magic tricks, computer vision, teaching and outreach!
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Episode 63 - Rhys Phillips, Electrostatic hazards in aircraft
26 July 2010
Episode 63. Rhys Phillips of the Lightning Direct Effects Group at EADS talks about his work as a research engineer around electrostatic hazards in aircraft.
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Episode 62 - William Simpson, Solar physics
22 July 2010
Episode 62. William Simpson talks about his work in solar stresses and solar flares, his theological motivations for studying mathematics and physics and studying abroad.
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Episode 61 - Chris Marchant, Outreach
19 July 2010
Episode 61. Chris Marchant, Outreach Manager for The Department Of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Liverpool talks about the department's work in outreach activities.
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Episode 60 - Sarah Norton, systems engineering
16 July 2010
Episode 60. Sarah Norton talks about her work in systems engineering and a specific application for fire engines responding to mobile phone emergency calls.
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Episode 59 - Katie Steckles and Rufus Roberts, Maths busking
12 July 2010
Episode 59. Katie Steckles and Rufus Roberts talk about the phenomenon of 'maths busking'.
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Episode 58 - Ben Beech, Air Traffic Control
8 July 2010
Episode 58. Ben Beech speaks at a careers event at the University of Portsmouth about his work as an air traffic controller.
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Episode 57 - History of Maths and x, Shape of the cosmos: Developments from Newton to Einstein
23 March 2010
Episode 57. Peter Rowlett covers Einstein's relativity in this companion podcast to video lecture at www.historyofmathsandx.co.uk/topics/gravity
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Episode 56 - Edmund Harriss, Development and teaching of mathematical ideas
28 February 2010
Episode 56. Edmund Harriss and I discuss a range of topics around enthusing people about mathematics and how mathematical ideas are developed and taught.
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Episode 55 - Edmund Harriss, Tilings, motivations and Street Maths
21 February 2010
Episode 55. Edmund Harriss of the University of Leicester speaks about his research area of tiling patterns and how this leads him into maths outreach.
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Episode 54 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
14 February 2010
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.
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Episode 53 - Robert Harter - Water waves
6 February 2010
Episode 53. Robert Harter talks about his PhD research at the University of Manchester into linear water wave problems.
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Episode 52 - Jackie Grinsell, Mathematics teaching
31 January 2010
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.
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Episode 51 - Sebastien Guenneau, Optical wave guides and applied mathematics research
24 January 2010
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.
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Episode 50 - Sebastien Guenneau, Invisibility cloaks
13 December 2009
Episode 50. Dr. Sebastien Guenneau of the University of Liverpool talks about his work on metamaterials and invisibility cloaking.
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Episode 49 - History of Maths and x, Substitution ciphers: Ancient - Renaissance
7 December 2009
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.
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Episode 48 - Andrea Donafee, Cash balance optimisation
29 November 2009
Episode 48. Andrea Donafee speaks about her work for Cash Management Systems in optimisation around managing cash balances.
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Episode 47 - Mark Blyth, Applications of fluid dynamics in biology
22 November 2009
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.
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Episode 46 - Frank Kelly, random processes, networks and optimization
15 November 2009
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.
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Episode 45 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
7 November 2009
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.
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Episode 44 - Andrew Cates, his career
31 October 2009
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.
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Episode 43 - Victor Arulchandran, wave dispersion and PhD skills
25 October 2009
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.
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Episode 42 - Ed Galea, His career, part 2: Crowd evacuation modelling
18 October 2009
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.
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Episode 41 - Ed Galea, His career, part 1: How astrophysics leads to steel casting and fire modelling
11 October 2009
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.
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Episode 40 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
4 October 2009
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!
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Episode 39 - Beatrice Pelloni, Applications of Fourier transforms
26 September 2009
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.
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Episode 38 - David Spiegelhalter, Public understanding of risk
19 July 2009
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.
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Episode 37 - David Mitchell, Channel coding and maths in engineering
11 July 2009
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.
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Episode 36 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
3 July 2009
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.
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Episode 35 - Terry Edwards, Chartered Mathematician
27 June 2009
Episode 35. As university students prepare to graduate I ask Terry Edwards about IMA Professional Development and Chartered Mathematician Status.
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Episode 34 - Eugenia Cheng, Category theory
21 June 2009
Episode 34. Dr. Eugenia Cheng from the University of Sheffield talks to me about what she likes about mathematics, her area of category theory and TheCatsters YouTube channel.
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Episode 33 - David Fearn, Magnetohydrodynamics
14 June 2009
Episode 33. Professor David Fearn of the University of Glasgow sat down with me and talked about the area of magnetohydrodynamics.
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Episode 32 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
6 June 2009
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.
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Episode 31 - Matt Parker, Maths communication
30 May 2009
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.
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Episode 30 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Ramanujan
22 May 2009
Episode 30. 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 Ramanujan.
N.B. Correction: In this episode Noel-Ann makes a slip of the tongue, saying "G.K. Hardy" which should be "G.H. Hardy". We're sorry!
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Episode 29 - Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Evolutionary algorithms for financial applications
16 May 2009
Episode 29. Noel-Ann Bradshaw of the University of Greenwich talks about her research using evolutionary algorithms for financial applications.
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Episode 28 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
10 May 2009
Episode 28. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 27 - Oliver Jensen, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009
27 Apr 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.
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Episode 26 - Chris Budd, Confessions of an Industrial Mathematican
19 Apr 2009
Episode 26. Professor Chris Budd of the University of Bath spoke to me about his view of 21st Century maths, based on his article "Confessions of an Industrial Mathematican", written for Mathematics Today.
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Episode 25 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Fibonacci
10 Apr 2009
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.
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Episode 24 - John Sharp, Maths and Art
04 Apr 2009
John Sharp of the London Knowledge Lab talks about his work in mathematics and art.
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Episode 23 - Paul Shepherd, Decimation and Subdivision
29 Mar 2009
Episode 23. Dr. Paul Shepherd of the University of Bath speaks about two aspects of 3D modeling - decimation and subdivision. Paul also talks about what a mathematician can bring the world of engineering and architecture.
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Episode 22 - Mike Maher, Transport Modelling
22 Mar 2009
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.
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Episode 21 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Turing
14 Mar 2009
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.
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Episode 20 - Choi-Hong Lai, Fluid dynamics
8 Mar 2009
Episode 20. Choi-Hong Lai of the University of Greenwich talks through some applications in fluid dynamics.
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Episode 19 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
28 Feb 2009
Episode 19. Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 18 - Jane Wess, Science Museum
23 Feb 2009
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.
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Episode 17 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - al-Kharazmi
16 Feb 2009
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 al-Kharazmi.
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Episode 16 - Chris Bailey, Cutty Sark Restoration
6 Feb 2009
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.
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Episode 15 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
1 Feb 2009
Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 14 - Paul Shepherd, Parametric Geometry Generation
24 January 2009
Episode 14. Paul Shepherd, a mathematician working in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath. He speaks about his work on architectural design using parametric models.
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Episode 13 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Florence Nightingale
17 Jan 2009
Episode 13. 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 Florence Nightingale.
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Episode 12 - Terry Lyons Stochastic Calculus
10 Jan 2009
Episode 12. Professor Terry Lyons of the University of Oxford talks about his area of Stochastic Analysis.
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Episode 11 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Euler
14 Dec 2008
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.
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Episode 10 - Adrian Bowyer (part 2)
6 Dec 2008
The second of two episodes in which Dr. Adrian Bowyer talks about some of the areas his career has taken him to.
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Episode 9 - Adrian Bowyer (part 1)
1 Dec 2008
The first of two episodes in which Dr. Adrian Bowyer talks about some of the areas his career has taken him to.
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Episode 8 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
23 Nov 2008
Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 7 - Neil Goldwasser, Dyslexia Support and Adult Numeracy
16 Nov 2008
In this episode, Neil Goldwasser talks about his work as a dyslexia support tutor and adult numeracy tutor.
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Episode 6 - History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw - Galois
8 Nov 2008
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.
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Episode 5 - Nira Chamberlain, Mathematical Modelling Consultant
1 Nov 2008
Episode 5. Nira Chamberlain works as a Mathematical Modelling Consultant and is a PhD student part time at the University of Portsmouth. I met Nira in Portsmouth and asked him to tell me about some interesting projects he had worked on.
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Episode 4 - Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
26 Oct 2008
Sarah Shepherd joins me to look over some recent maths news.
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Episode 3 - Dr. Joanna Hartley - Public Transport Modelling
19 Oct 2008
Episode 3. Dr. Joanna Hartley of Nottingham Trent University talks about her career from leaving university and the work she has done with Nottingham City Transport on public transport modelling.
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Episode 2 - History - Newton and Leibniz
11 Oct 2008
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.
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Episode 1 - Professor Philip Maini, Oxford - Maths Biology
4 Oct 2008
Episode 1, in which Professor Philip Maini of the Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, talks about the field of mathematical biology.
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Episode 0 - Prelude
11 Sep 2008
Episode 0, a brief prelude to the podcast proper.
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