Programme

This page presents the programme for Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today 2024.

The speakers' abstracts are available via the Abstracts page.

Here is the provisional programme for TMT 2024.  Timings and other details are subject to change.  An asterisk indicates that a submission has been shortlisted for the IMA Prize for the Best Presentation.


Click on a date to see the schedule for that day.


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Links to videos of student presentations

The following student presentations from TMT2024 can be viewed through the links provided.


TMT Reception at Greenwich, 8 March 2024

TMT delegates admiring the University of Greenwich's Rubik-cube-solving Lego robot, at the reception on Friday 8 March. (Thanks to the students pictured for their permission to use the photo, and to Niyati Gupta for providing it.)

Friday 8 March

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

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

Saturday 9 March

1:00 Welcome and Housekeeping

1:15-2:15 Session 1 - Plenary (Chair: Angus Grandison)

1:15    * Mehrdad Jafari, University of Salford, Dynamics and Chaos in Extensible Pendulum System

1:35 * Andi Hani, University of Warwick, The complex relationship between deprivation and disease

1:55    * Elizabeth Holland, Durham University, A Tropical Trip Through Smale’s 9th Problem And More


2:20 -3:00 Session 2

Stream 1 (Chair: Angus Grandison)

2:20  Alice Kukuruzovic, University of Huddersfield, Ptolemy to Paradise

2:40    Elinor Flavell, University of Edinburgh, The Organica of van Schooten: the development of analytic geometry and its link to conic sections

Stream 2 (Chair: Ebrahim Patel)

2:20 Alexis Smith, King's College London, Classifying the complex simple Lie algebras

2:40    Varad Kulkarni and Oleksii Babaskin, University of Glasgow, The Unboundedness of Energy from the Nature of Curves

Stream 3 (Chair: Tony Mann)

      2.20 Sharlaty Karuna, University of Kent, Assessing the effectiveness of Chaos Theory over Game Theory in forecasting the stock market

2:40    Isaac Holt, Durham University, Tropical geometry and generic root counts of polynomial systems


3:00-3:30 Online Networking Opportunity


3:30 -4:30 Session 3 - Plenary (Chair: Robyn Goldsmith)


3:30     * Simon Ciavarro, Durham University, Beyond Integers: Exploring Fractional Calculus

3:50     * Eugene Shcherbinin, London School of Economics, Systemic Risk Modelling: Using Network Theory to Ensure Resilience of the Financial System

4:10     * Bruno Eaves, Ivan Noden, and Ioannis Pantelidakis, University College London, Patterns in Primes: The Bunyakovsky Conjecture


4:45-5:25 Session 4

Stream 1 (Chair: Tony Mann)

4:45   Ananya Garg, University of Warwick, The Stable Marriage Problem and its Extensions

5:05     Amelia Cox, Royal Holloway, University of London, Exploring the logic, history and strategy behind sudoku combinatorics

Stream 2 (Chair: Ebrahim Patel)

4:45     Yaël Dillies, University of Cambridge, How to avoid arithmetic progressions

5:05     Toby Lam, University of Oxford, Inverse function theorem and symmetries of differential equations


5:30-6:30 Keynote: Dr Sophie Carr CMath CSci FIMA (Chair: Tony Mann)


6:30-7:00 Online Networking Opportunity

Sunday 10 March

1:00-1:25 Online Networking Opportunity


1:25-1:30 Introduction to Day 2


1:30-2:00 Keynote: Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE (Chair: Robyn Goldsmith)


2:05-2:45 Session 5

Stream 1 (Chair: Tony Mann)

2:05 Mingjia Yan, Imperial College London, Geometric Mechanics in Soft Matter

2:25 Mariella Ind, University of Sheffield, Applications of modular arithmetic in cryptography

Stream 2 (Chair: Robyn Goldsmith)

2:05 Mihai-Emilian Niculae  University of Greenwich, Quantum Calculus: Deciphering Financial Complexity with Fractional Precision in Global Economies

2:25 Ralfs Pundurs, University of Warwick, Constructions of Infinite Group Theory

Stream 3 (Chair: Angus Grandison)

2:05 Luke Harding, The Open University, Modelling loyalty sign ups in retail

2:25 James Snowden, The Open University, Quantising the Special Linear Group


2:50-3:30 Session 6

Stream 1 (Chair: Tony Mann)

2:50 Benjamin Kolicic, Durham University, Beavers Beyond The Edge Of Computability

3:10 Matthew Helm, University of Warwick, Chaos in Dynamical Systems

Stream 2 (Chair: Angus Grandison)

2:50 Yash Vaghela and Barbaros Zeren, Queen Mary University of London, Sway and Play: The Mathematics of Playground Swinging

3:10 Sophie Bleau, University of Edinburgh, A Combinatorial Construction of the Moduli Space of Flowlines in Discrete Morse Theory

Stream 3 (Chair: Ana Paula Palacios)

2:50 Mariia Sinkevich, University of Sussex, Mathematical Queuing Models and their Application in Everyday Problems

3:10 Im Chiew Ng, King's College London, Stochastic Processes in Healthcare


3:30-3:50 Online Networking Opportunity


3:50-4:50 Session 7

Stream 1 (Chair: Tony Mann)

3:50 Cassia Pearce, Durham University, Showing the relationship between the finite subgroups of SO3 and the platonic solids

4:10 Joseph Harrison, University of Warwick, On the Number of Representations of Integers by Forms

Stream 2 (Chair: Ana Paula Palacios)

3:50 Eilis Meldrum-Dolan, University of Greenwich, P values and the problems with Frequentist Inference

4:10 Hugh Coleman, The Open University, Bayesian Methods for Modelling Dynamical Systems


4:35-5:15 Session 8

Stream 1 (Chair: Tony Mann)

4:35 Adithya Kumar, University of Edinburgh, Connecting the Dots: An Introduction to Spectral Graph Theory

4:55 Charlie Blaney, The Open University, Hilbert’s Headache: Journeys towards a Homotopical Understanding of Quantum Field Theory

Stream 2 (Chair: Angus Grandison)

4;35 Jamie Reason, Durham University, Bayesian Emulation with Partial Known Discontinuities


5:20-6:00 Session 9 - Plenary (Chair: Robyn Goldsmith)

5:20 Veronica Bitonti, University College London, Continued Fractions in Enumerative Combinatorics

5:40 Maria Esteban Casadevall, Heriot-Watt University, Discrete notions of curvature in graphs and its applications to network analysis


6:00-6:30 Conclusion, Award of IMA Prize for the Best Presentation, and Online Networking Opportunity

The speakers' abstracts are available via the Abstracts page.

For further information or to contact the organisers tmt@gre.ac.uk.

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