Holgate Lectures for Schools and Colleges

• the Holgate Lecturers are chosen for their skill at communicating the importance, excitement and beauty of mathematics;

• each talk is aimed at students in particular years, within the overall range of years 8 – 13;

• local organisers can be schools, groups of schools, or local branches of mathematical organisations, and they should guarantee an audience of at least 50;

• the contact details of Holgate Lecturers are given later in this document, together with titles of talks, brief descriptions of the talks and suggested years of the student audience;

• local organisers have responsibility for contacting their chosen lecturers, arranging talks and venues, advertising, and accommodation for lecturers if required - note that each lecturer has been told to accept at most 5 invitations during each academic year, and they are not expected to travel unreasonably long distances;

• Holgate Lecturers do not charge a fee for giving talks, but local organisers are expected to pay lecturers' travel expenses and subsistence costs, together with any local costs of organising the talks;

• the LMS Education Committee has the discretion to award a few small grants to support expenses for Holgate Lectures, if they could not otherwise be held ;

• the organiser should send a brief report on the talk to the LMS Administrative Officer (address below), within a month of the talk taking place.

Professor Chris Budd, (University of Bath, tel: 01225 386241, email: cjb@maths.bath.ac.uk)

Lecture 1: Maths and the fight against crime (KS3)
Lecture 2: The maths of celtic and african art (KS3)
Lecture 3: What have mathematicians done for us? (6th form)
Lecture 4: Dancing with mathematics (KS3)
Lecture 5: 101 uses of a quadratic equation (KS4)
Lecture 6: What's the use of chaos (6th form)

(Further details on the lecture topics to follow.)