DAMTP Jubilee Programme

Wednesday 23rd September:

Evening Drinks Reception at Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Thursday 24th September:

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

11:30: Individual and Collective Behaviour In Suspensions Of Swimming Micro-Organisms

Professor Timothy Pedley FRS (G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics since 1996, PhD DAMTP 1966)

14:30: The Wind in the Willows: how Environmental Fluid Mechanics informs Climate Science

Professor Stephen Belcher (Head of School of Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics, University of Reading, PhD DAMTP 1990)

15:30: Disease Dynamics: From Equation To Experiment (And Back)

Dr Julia Gog (University Lecturer in DAMTP since 2006)

17:00: Lecture by Professor Stephen Hawking FRS, CBE, CH (Entry to this lecture will be by ticket only)

Dinner at King's College

(Speakers: Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor University of Cambridge, Professor Keith Moffatt FRS, Head of DAMTP 1983-91, Revd John Polkinghorne KBE FRS, Professor of Mathematical Physics in DAMTP 1968-79)

Friday 25th September:

MR2 Centre for Mathematical Sciences

10:00: Slow Viscous Flows Informed By Modern Microscopy Methods: From Batchelor to Blood to Biofilms

Professor Howard Stone (Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton, NATO Postdoctoral Fellow DAMTP 1988-89)

11:30: Fun With Extra Dimensions

Professor Ruth Gregory (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, PhD DAMTP 1988)

14:00: Integrability, Medical Imaging and Boundary Value Problems

Professor Thanasis Fokas (Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science since 2002)

15:00: Searching for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

Dr Ben Allanach (Reader in Theoretical Physics in DAMTP since 2007)