Previous Mary Cartwright Lectures

2024 Online

Bethany Marsh
Presentations of reflection groups, part 2

Francesca Fedele
Presentations of reflection groups, part 1

2023 Edinburgh

Tara Brendle
Ivanov's metaconjecture: encoding symmetries of surfaces

Dan Margalit
Reconstruction problems in mathematics: from Euclid to Ivanov

2019 Edinburgh

Beatrice Pelloni
Nonlinear transforms in the study of fluid dynamics

Karima Khusnutdinova
Integrable and Near-Integrable Models for Surface and Internal Waves in Stratified Shear Flows

2018 London

Carola Bibiane-Schönlieb 
Model-based learning in imaging

Andrea Bertozzi
Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data

2017 London

Rebecca Hoyle
Transgenerational plasticity and environmental change

Sinéad English
Information use within and across generations: implications for understanding animal development and non-genetic inheritance

2016

London

Gwyneth Stallard
Pits, gaps and spiders' webs

Lasse Rempe-Gillen
Hairs, dreadlocks and Cantor bouquets

2015

London

Maria Esteban
Eigenvalue problems in relativistic Quantum Mechanics, theory and applications

Mathieu Lewin
Bose-Einstein condensation : history, model and recent mathematical results

2014

York

Reidun Twarock
Viruses and geometry: hidden symmetries in virology

Anne Taormina
Moonshines

2013

London

Margaret Wright
A Mathematical Journey in Non-Derivative Optimization

Jeff Lagarias
From abc to xyz

2012

London

Agata Smoktunowicz
Old and new questions in noncommutative algebra

Tom Lenagan
Totally nonnegative matrices

2011

Oxford

Alison Etheridge
Evolution in a spatial continuum

Peter Donnelly
Modelling Genes

2010

Durham

Ruth Gregory
Fun with extra dimensions

Ana Achucarro
Maths in the sky: the secret life of cosmic strings

2009

London

Dusa McDuff FRS
Symplectic embeddings of 4-dimensional ellipsoids

Simon Donaldson FRS
A spectator’s commentary on symplectic topology

2008

Oxford

Valerie Beral FRS and Richard Peto FRS
Mathematics of medicine: breast cancer treatment and prevention

2007

London

Angela Stevens
Interacting Cell Systems: An Example for Mathematical Modeling in the Life-Sciences

Philip Maini
Emergent Phenomena - Fact or Fiction?

2006

London

Ulrike Tillmann FRS
The topology of strings: Mumford’s conjecture and beyond

Graeme Segal FRS
Locality in quantum field theory

2005

London

Elizabeth Thompson
Relatedness, genome sharing, and the detection of genes

Steffen Lauritzen
A pedigree perspective of local computation

2004

London

Mary Rees FRS
The topographer's view of parameter spaces

Dierk Schleicher
Understanding complex dynamical systems and their parameter spaces

2003

Edinburgh

Jennifer Chayes
Mathematical models of the internet and World Wide Web

Béla Bollobás
Models of large-scale real-world networks

2002

London

Frances Kirwan FRS
Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and holomorphic bundles

Simon Donaldson FRS
Convex analysis and toric manifolds

2001

Oxford

Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Mathematics and flying aeroplanes

Bill Morton
Evolution operators and numerical modelling of hyperbolic equations

2000

London

Caroline Series
Exploring the space of quasifuchsian groups

Walter Hayman FRS
Recollections of Miss Cartwright