Alan Tayler Lecture 2008
| date : | 2008/09/20 |
| venue: | St Catherine's College, Oxford |
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| 1986 | Prof D G Crighton (University of Cambridge) Aeronautical acoustics: a model for applied mathematics | 1987 | Prof M V Berry (University of Bristol) Catastrophes and credit cards |
1988 | Prof A Friedman (University of Minnesota) Mathematics in industry: a growing commitment |
1989 | Prof Sir James Lighthill (University College London) What triggers the trigger-fishes? |
1990 | Prof J L Lions (College de France) Some new mathematical questions arising from space research technology |
1991 | Dr E J Hinch (University of Cambridge) Sedimentation, aggregation and compaction |
1992 | Prof M van Dyke (Stanford University) Nineteenth century roots of the boundary-layer idea |
1993 | Prof H B Keller (California Institute of Technology) The circle lattice problem, quantum statistics and computer graphics |
1994 | Prof J D Murray (University of Washington), Mathematical biology: nonlinear problems with alligators, aggression and survival of wolves | 1995 | Dr S D Howison (University of Oxford) Risk and reward: the role of mathematics in finance |
1996 | Prof P J Fryer (University of Birmingham) Milk, carrots and Weetabix: the mathematics of food |
1997 | Prof L N Trefethen (University of Oxford) Eigenvalues: what they do and do not tell us about dynamics |
1998 | Prof G I Barenblatt (University of California, Berkeley and University of Cambridge), Turbulence: an old challenge and new perspectives | 1999 | Prof H E Huppert (University of Cambridge) Explosive vulcanism: extreme mechanics |
2000 | Prof Sir Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research) Assertions in programs: out of research and into production |
2001 | Prof J C R Hunt (University College London) Maths in industry: past experiences and new challenges |
2002 | Prof H Neunzert (Fraunhofer-ITWM, Kaiserslautern) What did we "Europeans" learn from Alan Tayler? |
2003 | Prof L Mahadevan (Harvard University) Packing problems: from DNA to origami |
2004 | Dr D Acheson (University of Oxford) 1089 and all that |
2005 | Prof John Bush (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Walking on Water: biolocomotion at the interface |
2006 | Prof Henri Berestycki (l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Modelling Spatial Diffusion: from flames to social norms |
2007 | Prof Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Symmetries in biological and physical networks |