Previous Popular Lectures

Since 1982, the London Mathematical Society has hosted its annual free Popular Lectures to inspire interest in mathematics.

2011

Symmetry, Chance & Determinism

Colva Roney-Dougal 

How Climate Models Work and Could They Be Better?

Hilary Weller

 2004  Big Money Mathematics
Professor Ken Binmore

A Spoonful of Maths Helps the Medicine Go Down
Professor Helen Byrne

2010

Modelling the Circle of Life: How Maths Untangles Knotty DNA Questions
Dorothy Buck

Clutching at Random Straws
Matt Parker

2003

Mathematics, Magic and the Electric Guitar
Dr David Acheson

The Music of the Primes
Professor Marcus du Sautoy

2009

Hollywood's Hippest Mathematics: random matrices and Riemann zeros
Dr Nina Snaith

The Scale of Things
Dr Mark Miodownik

2002

Our Dynamic Sun
Dr Helen Mason

Geometry Ancient & Modern
Dr John Silvester

2008

Toy models
Dr Tadashi Tokieda

Know your enemy-viruses under the mathematical microscope
Dr Reidun Twarock

2001

Codes
Professor Peter Cameron

Simulating the world
Professor Chris Budd

2007

Chaos and Crochet
Dr Hinke Osinga

Knots
Dr Stephen Huggett

2000

Simplicity and Complexity
Professor John Barrow

Fractals - the New Geometry
Professor Kenneth Falconer

2006

From Magic Squares to Sudoku
Dr Emma McCoy

How likely is that?
Dr John Haigh

1999

Floating, Spinning, Tumbling
Dr Frank Berkshire

Tangent Circles – Patterns and Packings
Professor Caroline Series

2005

The Mathematics of Shrek
Dr Joan Lasenby

What Computers Cannot Do
Dr Alan Slomson

1998

Giraffe Blood Flow and Pattern Forming Bacteria

Tim Pedley

Marrying, Voting, Choosing

Tom Körner