Programme

Here are links to recordings of talks from TMT2025 where the speakers have given us permission to link to them.  Further links may be provided in the future  - If you are a speaker and would like us to link to your recording, please email tmt@gre.ac.uk.  Student talks are listed in alphabetical order of last name.

Keynote talk - Professor Alan Champneys, Saturday 15 March
Keynote talk - Professor Rachel Hilliam, Sunday 16 March

Hoi Fung Cheng, University of Manchester, Formalising Natural Numbers
Niyati Gupta, University of Greenwich, The Mathematics of Your Brain
Hinay Patel, University of Warwick, Unraveling Knots: the Topology of Everyday Tangles (unfortunately Hinay was indisposed on the day and unable to deliver the talk but has made the presentation available)

6-8pm Reception for delegates at the University of Greenwich 

Information about how to attend will be sent to those registered for the conference 

13:30 Conference Introduction

13:40 - 14:40 Session 1

Stream A: Chair Robyn Goldsmith

13:40 Henry Oldroyd, University of Lancaster, Latent space in machine learning

14:00 Cenk Goren, University of Warwick, Introduction to the Multiple Linear Regression Model

14:20 James Sykes, Durham University, The Deep Challenge of Distributional Reinforcement Learning

Stream B: Chair Maciej Matuszewski

13:40 Nishita Bhowmik, Durham University, Inflation and Cosmological Correlators: Insights from dS/CFT

14:00 Sam Kay, Durham University, A Symmetric Universe

14:20 Adhyayan Sharma, University of Bristol, Investigating Critical Probability in Percolation Theory

Stream C: Chair Tony Mann

14:00 Tsz Hong Ip, University of Nottingham, Between Addition, Multiplication and Beyond: Hyperoperations of Non-integral Ranks

14:20 Freddie Carter, University of Sheffield, Scissors Congruences

14:50 - 15:50 Session 2

Stream A:  Chair Ebrahim Patel

14:50 Matthew Black, Durham University, Backward Bifurcations in Epidemiology

15:10 Thomas Shaw, Durham University, Differential Equations in Mathematical Biology

15:30 Niyati Gupta, University of Greenwich, The Mathematics of Your Brain

Stream B: Chair James Van Yperen

14:50 Moiz Saleem, University of Bristol, Translating Cointegration to Profits in the Financial Markets

15:10 Perry Hui, University of Bristol, Pairs Trading

15:30 Anant Pathak, London School of Economics, Moments and Managing the Unexpected; Quantitative Risk Management 

Stream C: Chair Tony Mann

14:50 Hoi Fung Cheng, University of Manchester, Formalising Natural Numbers

15:10 Cassia Pearce, Durham University, 2,3,4 ... But No More: Exploring The Insolvability Of Quintics By Radicals

15:30 Amelia Cox, Royal Holloway, University of London, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems: The proof of (sometimes) not having a proof

15:50-16:20 Break / Networking

16:20 - 17:00 Session 3

Stream A: Chair James Van Yperen

16;20 Sarbajit Ghosh, Birkbeck University of London, Cylindric Set Algebras and Robbins Problem

Stream B: Chair Ebrahim Patel

16:20 Robert Graham, University of Lancaster, Clifford Group Equivariant Neural Networks

16:40 Joseph Griggs, University of Sheffield, Patterns in Fractal Sets

Stream C: Chair Maciej Matuszewski

16:20 Ananya Garg, University of Warwick, “Watts Up?”: Minimizing power loss in electrical networks

16:40 Daniel Yeoman, Durham University, Optimisation in Modern Computing, Mathematics at the Heart of Efficiency

17:05 - 18:10 Saturday Keynote. Chair Robyn Goldsmith

Professor Alan Champneys, University of Bristol, Breaking the rules: the role of creativity in the mathematical sciences 

18:10 - 18:30 Networking

13:00-13:30 Networking

13:30 - 14:30 Session 4

Stream A: Chair Ebrahim Patel

13:30 Barbaros Zeren and Yash Vaghela, Queen Mary University of London, Childhood in Motion: Mathematical Insights into Playground Swings

13:50 Muhie Al Haimus and Allegra Celesia, Queen Mary University of London, String and Spin: The Mathematics of Yo-Yo Tricks

14:10 Abby Saynor, University of Birmingham, Conditions for Oscillating Solutions in Opinion Dynamics

Stream B: Chair Tony Mann

13:50  Zafar Bakhromov, The Open University, The Well-Ordering Principle and Transfinite Induction

14:10 Luke Garner, University of Exeter, Examining characteristics of car drivers involved in collisions using splines

Stream C: Chair Maciej Matuszewski

13:30 Eilis Meldrum-Dolan, University of Greenwich, What is Network Meta-Analysis, and how can we use it correctly? 

13:50 Zidong Chen, University of Sheffield, An Introduction to Multifidelity Bayesian Optimization in Machine Learning

14:10 Adam Snelling, Imperial College London, Methods for Bayesian Filtering

14:40 - 15:40 Session 5

Stream A: Chair Angus Grandison

14:40 George Boustany, University of Salford, Discrete dynamics on C: periodic orbits, fractal boundaries, and basin entropy

15:00 Alex Thoulé, Cambridge University, Delay Differential Equations in Population Dynamics

15:20 Angelika Andrijevska, University of Sheffield, A Numerical Investigation into an Inverse Heat Problem

Stream B: Chair Tom Hobson

14:40 Thomas Hutton, Cardiff University, Evolutionary Game Theoretic Emergent Behaviour in Stochastic Queuing Systems

15:00 Chenyang Zhao, Imperial College London, Exploring Game Theory via Algebraic Geometry with Macaulay2 Package Development

15:20 Visesh Akbari, City St George's, University of London, Game Theory and Asymmetric Information: Strategies and Solutions

Stream C: Chair Tony Mann

14:40 Mary Mpiani, Queen Mary University of London, The Mathematics Behind the London Underground Tube Map

15:00 No Talk

15:20 Ananya Vijjan, London School of Economics, The Legacy of Kurt Gödel

15:40-16:10 Break / Networking

16:10 - 16:50 Session 6   

Stream A: Chair Tony Mann

16:10 Anya Khurana, Cambridge University, Lattices and sums of squares

16:30 Mara Postolache, Cambridge University, Otto Calculus and Gradient Flows on the Manifold of Probability Measures

Stream B: Chair Angus Grandison

16:30 Hugh Coleman, The Open University, Why horses are not spherically symmetrical - Turing's mathematics of symmetry breaking and patterning

Stream C: Chair Tom Hobson

16:10 Oliver Rothnie, Durham University, Self-similarity, triangles, and fractals

16:30 Philipp Wiedemann, University of Oxford, Infinite Galois Theory and its Representations

17:00- 17:55 Sunday Keynote.  Chair Ebrahim Patel

Professor Rachel Hilliam, The Open University,  A career in mathematical sciences: A directed graph or a random walk?

17:55 - 18:10 Conference Wrap-up

18:10 - 18:40 Networking