This post has two parts:
1. Our next event
2. Slides and video on demand
Tags: #mathematics #maths #math #appliedmaths #university #nottingham #calculus #covid
1. Our next event
Our next event, which will be the last in our current series of Taster Sessions, will be a Taster Lecture on Applied Mathematics by Stephen Creagh, at 5PM on Thursday 3rd June 2021.
Applied mathematics is all about constructing models of the world around us, in contexts as diverse as mechanics, pandemic modelling or weather prediction, and then solving the resulting equations. Calculus is the central language of this modelling cycle. Typically, our mathematical models take the form of differential equations, in which the governing equations tell us about the rates of change (derivatives) of the quantities we are interested in.
In this taster lecture we will explore qualitative and graphical approaches to understanding the solutions of these models. These qualitative approaches often give really good insight into the problem while demanding much less effort than would be needed for complete solutions in the form of explicit formulas. For example, in modelling a pandemic, we might be much more interested in answering questions such as whether infection numbers will rise or fall, whether they will approach an equilibrium or keep changing steadily, and if rising, what parameters might be changed to make infections fall etc.
For full details of our Taster Sessions, see the page
https://tinyurl.com/uonmathstaster
To join one of our Teams Live events, simply visit that page at the right time and use the session’s Join Teams Live Event button.
2. Slides and video on demand
Slides from the first five Taster Sessions in the current series are now available (in PDF format) from the page https://tinyurl.com/uonmathstaster. Videos from our sessions will be available on demand from the same page once the captions are ready. So far you can watch videos from the first two sessions, which are the Taster Lecture on Calculus by Anna Kalogirou from 29th April 2021, and the popular maths talk Using maths in the fight against Covid-19 by Katie Severn from 6th May 2021. You can also find these videos on our YouTube channel, available at https://tinyurl.com/uonmathsyt
Explaining mathematics 