ICHST 2025. Dunedin, 29 June - 5 July, 2025.
Communicating mathematics through the household in Regency Britain, Modern History of Mathematics: Looking Ahead, Closing Workshop of the MHM Programme at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 28 Apr - 02 May 2025. Watch Online Here.
A student guided walk through the history of mathematics, Diversity and Decolonisation in Mathematics, University of Warwick, 24 - 25 Apr 2025. Slides Available Here.
Embracing Nature in Mathematical Formulae: The roles of mathematics in the life and works of Mary Somerville (1780-1872), Pioneering British Women in Mathematics, Newnham College, Cambridge, 28 Feb 2025.
Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya: A collaborative couple in mathematics from Nepal (joint with Deepak Basyal), Séminaire Mathématiques, 19e-21e siècles, histoire et philosophie: Teaching Practices, Paris, Jan 2025.
The how, when, and why of introducing history into a mathematics curriculum: Reflections from the History for Diversity in Mathematics Network, PiFORUM Piscopia Initiative, Mini-Symposium. University of Leicester, 2nd September 2024.
The hidden labour of mathematical translations: A tale of two marriages, St Andrews History of Mathematics Seminar, Apr 3 2024.
Uncovering and identifying mathematical work in the papers of Mary Somerville, Séminaire Manuscrits scientifiques, Mar 21 2024.
“I thought it unjust that women should have been given a desire for knowledge if it were wrong to acquire it”: Rediscovering mathematics through the Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville, Oxford Women & Non-Binary People in Mathematics Day, Feb 17 2024.
Contextualising the Curriculum Through History of Mathematics, LMS Education Day, May 24 2023, London.
Quaternions at Twilight: The final mathematical work of Mary Somerville, Joint Mathematics Meeting of the AMS and MAA, Boston, USA, 7th Jan 2023.
(In-)visibility of women in science: historical perspectives, Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science Webinar, online, 16th Dec 2022. Watch it here.
Quaternions at Twilight: Mary Somerville's reading of Guthrie Tait, Colloque 2022 de la Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques, Wuppertal, Germany, October 2022.
Learning by letters - the mathematical education of Mary Somerville (1780-1872), International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Online, July 2022. Watch online here.
Mary Somerville: Being and Becoming a Mathematician in 19th-century Britain, HSMT Seminar, Oxford, May 2022.
Mary Somerville’s abandoned manuscripts and the promotion of analytical mathematics in 1830s Britain, History of Analysis, Birkbeck College (London), May 2022.
Quaternions at Twilight: Mary Somerville’s Studies of Non-commutative Algebra, Meeting in Memory of Peter Neumann, Queen's College (Oxford), April 2022.
Choosing to publish a `popular' work': Three books by Mary Somerville advocating for analytical mathematics in 1830s Britain, Joint Mathematics Meeting of the AMS and MAA, online, April 2022.
Mary Somerville’s abandoned manuscripts and the promotion of analytical mathematics in 1830s Britain, Mathématiques 19e-21e, Histoire et Philosophie séminaire, SPHERE, Paris (online). 24 January 2022.
Translation as Mathematical Practice: The Somerville-Herschel Correspondence, Mathematical Collaboration Online Seminar. December 2021.
Mary Somerville: Being and Becoming a Mathematician, Oxford History of Mathematics Forum. Queen's College, Oxford, November 2021.
Preparing a mathematical translation: Mary Somerville’s 1831 Mechanism of the Heavens, Joint Mathematics Meeting of the AMS and MAA. Online, January 2021.
Translating Laplace's Mécanique Céleste in early-19th-century Great Britain, Claremont History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar. Online (California, USA), November 2020.
Mister Mary Somerville, Husband and Secretary, Joint Mathematics Meeting of the AMS and MAA. Denver, CO, USA, January 2020.
Two letters from the Mary Somerville Collection, Oxford History of Mathematics Forum. Online, June 2020
Understanding the differential in the unpublished work of Mary Somerville (1780-1872), Séminaire du Centre François Viète. Brest, France, March 2019.
A novel composition: the differential as presented in Mary Somerville’s Theory of Differences, Séminaire des doctorants de SPHERE: Circulation of knowledge across national, cultural, and theoretical boundaries. Paris, France, March 2019.
Understanding the differential in Mary Somerville’s Theory of Differences, Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences. All Souls College, Oxford, UK, February 2019.
Understanding the differential in the unpublished work of Mary Somerville, Joint Mathematics Meeting of the AMS and MAA. Baltimore, MD, USA, January 2019.
Changing Channels: Constructing and comparing national identities in French and British mathematics, c. 1800-1840 (organiser), Séminaire d’histoire des mathématiques de l’IHP, May 24 2024.
Keeping it in the family: How marriage and kinship create mathematical community, New Directions in the History of Mathematics, The Open University, Apr 25 2024.
From telescope to textbook: the sharing of astronomical data between households, Women and Worlds of Learning, Apr 12-13 2024.
Networks of Households in 19th-Century British Science, International Summer School on Gender and Science, May 29 - June 2, Granada, Spain.
Diversifying the Curriculum Through the History of Mathematics: An Online, Open Access Resource, British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, Belfast, July 2022.
Conjuring the 'spirit of Laplace' in the Translations of Mary Somerville (1780-1872) at: Translating 18th- and 19th-century Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Online, September 2022.
The philosopher in his study, the literary lady in her boudoir’: How Mary Somerville transcended the amateur status of 19th-century scientific women, MAA Mathfest. Online, August 2021.
Circumventing gendered barriers to knowledge through spousal cooperation: Mrs and Mr Mary Somerville, 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology. Online (Prague, Czech Republic), July 2021.
Accessing knowledge through polite sociability in 19th-century Britain, Joint BSHM-CSHPM/SCHPM Conference. Online (St Andrews, Scotland), July 2021.
Co-organised symposium Epistolary Mathematics: Production, negotiation, and circulation of mathematical knowledge in letter correspondence in which this talk featured.
Preparing a Mathematical Translation: Mary Somerville's 1831 Mechanism of the Heavens (poster), BMC-BAMC 2021. Online (Glasgow, UK), April 2021.
The representations of British mathematics in the early nineteenth century, 9th European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) Conference. Online, September 2020.
Conjuring the 'spirit of Laplace': Translation as an answer to mathematical crisis, British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM): Mathematics in Times of Crises. Online, July 2020.
Conjuring the 'spirit of Laplace': The analytical works of Mary Somerville (1780--1872), BSHM Research in Progress. Oxford, UK, February 2020.
Conjuring the 'spirit of Laplace': The analytical works of Mary Somerville (1780--1872), ESHS Young Scholars Conference. Paris, France, September 2019.
Mister Mary Somerville: Husband and Secretary (poster), Women's History Network Annual Conference. London, UK, September 2019.
Understanding the differential through the use of notation in Mary Somerville’s unpublished work, BSHS Postgraduate Conference. Cambridge, UK, April 2019.
"Sometimes right and sometimes wrong": The early mathematical publications of Mary Somerville, BSHM Research in Progress. Oxford, UK, February 2019.
Embracing Nature in Formulae: The Hidden Mathematics of Mary Somerville, 29th Novembertagung in History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Seville, Spain, November 2018.
Embracing Nature in Formulae: The Hidden Mathematics of Mary Somerville, British Mathematics Colloquium. St Andrews, UK, June 2018.
Mary Somerville’s On the Theory of Differences: A case study of researching an unpublished manuscript, BSHM Research in Progress. Oxford, UK, February 2018.