Episodes
Professor David Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London, speaks on the subject of his book, The Improbability Principle, about why incredibly unlikely things keep happening.
Published 04/28/15
Professor Rama Cont discusses how mathematical modelling can provide insights on systemic risk, financial regulation and financial stability.
Published 11/04/14
Professor Damiano Brigo (Mathematics) answers the question: What is randomness, and how can we measure and model it with probability? In this his inaugural lecture.
Published 10/08/14
What links gas molecules, charged particles, bacteria and fish? Hear how partial differential equations help us understand their collective behaviour.
Published 07/24/14
Professor Eric Yeatman of Imperial College looks ahead 20 years to how micro technologies can increase the intelligence of systems in digital economies.
Published 05/21/14
Emil Lupu builds computer systems that can be continuously adapted to their environment and changes in how they are used.
Published 05/21/14
Professor Damiano Brigo (Mathematics) answers the question: What is randomness, and how can we measure and model it with probability?
Published 03/26/14
An interactive seminar exploring the power of social media, with Dr Moustafa Ghanem (ISST) and cyber-security consultant Jay Abbott .
Published 06/04/13
Professor Henrik Jensen (Mathematics) takes us for a musical journey through the brain as we understand the effects of melodies on the mind at Imperial Festival 2013
Published 05/13/13
Jenny Mitchell talks about the past, present and future roles of stochastic analysis in science - from the space race to climate change - with Professor Dan Crisan from the Department of Mathematics
Published 02/26/13
Scientists from Imperial College London have devised a way of producing music from noises without a composer. Dr Bob MacCallum explains the evolution of musical loops created by http://darwintunes.org
Published 06/19/12
A Grantham Special Lecture by Professor Marten Scheffer, Center for Water and Climate, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Published 04/02/12
We’re very good at spotting patterns in data, but applying simple mathematical models isn't always useful, argues Professor Michael Stumpf. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 21 March 2012)
Published 03/20/12
Interview with Prof Felix Otto on pattern formation in partial differential equations
Published 09/12/11
Interview with Professor Sir David Cox, May 2011.
Published 05/03/11
Gareth Mitchell, Colin Smith and Laura Gallagher discuss the recent news from around Imperial, including the researchers who put Rapunzel to the test for Blue Peter and the mathematicians creating their own version of the periodic table
Published 03/25/11
Junior Research Fellow Michael Gastner on the maths of cargo ships and the unsuspecting marine life that travels with them.
Published 02/23/11
Distinguished CNRS scientist Professor Alain Aspect delivers the 2010 Schrodinger Lecture on qubits.
Published 11/25/10
Dr Ivana Gudelj (Mathematics) and Dr Daniel Reuman (Life Sciences) talk about how Imperial\'s new MSc in Quantitative Biology will help the next generation of scientists to tackle problems like climate change and extinction
Published 07/15/10
Professor Marcus du Sautoy, holder of the Charles Symonyi Chair in Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford University presents this talk; 'A mathematician's journey...' on how can science and mathematics best be popularised.
Published 07/09/10
Imperial researchers are working with musicians to look into the neuroscience behind improvisation.
Published 05/25/10