Living Proof: the Isaac Newton Institute podcast

Send us Fan Mail A chaotic system is one where the outcome is sensitively dependent on initial conditions. Small disturbances can take the system in new, unpredictable directions. Professor Jens Marklof has built a successful career understanding the mathematics that underpin the chaos of quantum systems.  His career, or indeed any academic career, is a kind of chaotic system. You never know which...

Send us Fan Mail A father, two of his children, and a family friend — all mathematicians — made progress on a long-standing problem in group theory by coming together at the Isaac Newton Institute. Listen as Plus Magazine editors Rachel Thomas and Marianne Freiberger interview Roman Sauer, and Uri, Saar, and Shaked Bader to find out more about their research and paths to mathematics. The Operators...

Send us Fan Mail We talk with Professor Clemency Montelle all about her work decoding the mathematics of ancient manuscripts. In a wide-ranging discussion, we cover some of the concepts that first arose in India, hear about a mentor who hosted meals based on ancient recipes, and learn how important cultural and historical context is for the questions that mathematicians ask. While she was at the I...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine if your doctor had a digital model of your heart, personalised to you and updated with your latest medical information. This isn't science fiction – this revolutionary healthcare is being tested now. In this podcast we speak to Steven Niederer , who leads the CVDNet project developing and testing these ideas, and his colleague Richard Wilkinson , from the University o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Living Proof , we speak with Céline and Frank about their book: Why nobody understands quantum physics - and everyone needs to know something about it . They share insights into their writing journey and how each of their backgrounds contributed to the final project. We met Céline and Frank at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, wh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Living Proof podcast we're delighted to meet Moustapha Fall . Moustapha is the Center President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Senegal and winner of a prestigious Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries . He also plays an important role on the international stage as Member-at-Large of the Executiv...

Send us Fan Mail Earlier this year the the anomalous mathematical patterns sci-art competition attracted some jaw-dropping entries . The competition was held in connection to the Stochastic systems for anomalous diffusion research programme which took place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI) in Cambridge last year.  In this episode of Living Proof, we talk to Codina Cota...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Living Proof, we speak with renowned filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko about her film "Portrait of Olga Ladyzhenskaya" , which tells the story of the legendary Russian mathematician celebrated for her groundbreaking work in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics. Ekaterina shares what inspired her to bring Ladyzhenskaya’s life to the screen, expl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Living Proof , our podcast produced in collaboration with Plus.maths.org – you can find all the content from the collaboration here . On May 30th 2024 seminar goers at Princeton University witnessed a thrilling moment. The mathematician Zhouli Xu of the University of California, LA, announced that, together with colleagues he had sorted out the 126...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Living Proof , our podcast produced in collaboration with Plus.maths.org In this podcast we hope to give you some interesting information.  This information is encoded in terms of 0s and 1s – the classical bits in your computer or phone.  But what if instead we were using a quantum computer?  Then we'd be dealing with quantum bits, or qubits ,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Living Proof , our podcast produced in collaboration with Plus.maths.org In this episode we spoke to Sarah Hart, a mathematician interested in not just the maths itself, but also its connections to other areas of literature and art. She's done an amazing number of things throughout her career — from research in pure mathematics and heading up...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Living Proof , our podcast produced in collaboration with Plus.maths.org In this episode, we dive into the importance of communicating mathematics to a broader audience, a growing priority within the maths community. Sara Khan, Communications Manager at the Isaac Newton Institute, shares how the INI is championing mathematics communication. Then, R...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Living Proof , our podcast produced in collaboration with Plus.maths.org In this episode, we talked to famous Maths historian, David E. Rowe , who provided scientific advice for the play Diving into math with Emmy Noether, which was staged as  part of the Modern History of Mathematics research programme and the Inclusivity in the Mathematical Scien...

Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel speaks to Aleks Mijatovic (Warwick, Alan Turing Institute) and Codina Cotar (UCL) about the Stochastic systems for anomalous diffusion programme. They’ll be speaking about the theme and challenges of their highly interdisciplinary six-month research project, but the conversation starts with comments on some truly remarkable headwear...

Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel speaks to Professors Lionel Mason (Oxford) and Maciej Dunajski (Cambridge) of the Twistor Theory programme ( https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/twt ). Over the 30 minutes, they share their experiences of the scale and challenges of this far-reaching topic that - amongst other things - aims to unify general relativity and quantum mechani...

Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel speaks to Professors Mark Blyth and Sasha Korobkin , organisers of the INI Satellite Programme “ The mathematics of multiphase flows with applications ” (https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mfa/). In the conversation, Mark and Sasha explain the programme’s research themes and share their insights into the challenges and rewards of organi...

Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel speaks to Professor Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London. Inspired by a lecture given by Thomas Hales at INI’s Big Proof ( https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/bpr/ ) programme in 2017, Kevin has spent the past seven years working alongside fellow enthusiasts on the “Maths Library” project. In this conversation he explains the project...

Send us Fan Mail Established in 2021, the INI Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mathematics scheme enables “exceptional early career researchers in the mathematical sciences” to gain “experience, independence and new connections on their way to a successful academic career”. In this episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel speaks to Dr Luke Davis to learn about his journey through mathematics so far, and to f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel is joined by three guests: Daniel Gardham (Surrey), Katherine Benjamin (Oxford), and Francisco de Melo Virissimo (LSE), all of whom won medals as podium finishers at the 2024 STEM for Britain awards at the UK parliament in March. The conversation covers their success in the highly competitive poster exhibition, how it felt to present thei...

Send us Fan Mail Now in its third year, the INI Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mathematics scheme enables “exceptional early career researchers in the mathematical sciences” to gain “experience, independence and new connections on their way to a successful academic career”.  In this episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel speak to Dr Swapnil Jaideo (SJ) Kole to learn about her journey through mathematics...

Send us Fan Mail From 8-12 January 2024, the " Equivariant methods in geometry " took place in INI's main seminar room in Cambridge, UK. So far, so routine procedure. However, this workshop had the unique twist of being run in parallel with a team at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Linked by audio-visual streaming connections, the two events were remotely connected and...

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, Dan Aspel speaks to Professor Ben Allanach (Cambridge, CERN) about his talk " The Force Awakens: Quantum Collisions " which he'll be delivering in INI's main seminar room for this year's Cambridge Festival . Taking place on Saturday 23 March at 11:00, the talk is in fact now sold out . However, if you'd like to join the waiting...

Send us Fan Mail Episode published 30/01/24   In February 2022, Olena Domanska and her family left their home in Ukraine. The ongoing Russian invasion has meant that they are yet to return to the world they left behind. However, through her engagement with INI's  Solidarity for mathematicians programme, she and her family are currently based near the University of Manchester where she is cont...

Send us Fan Mail Episode published: 20/11/23   Thanks to the generous support of the Simons Foundation, the INI-Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mathematics is now in its second year of enabling “exceptional early career researchers in the mathematical sciences” to gain “experience, independence and new connections on their way to a successful academic career”.  In this episode of Living Proof,...

Send us Fan Mail Episode published: 10/10/23   Thanks to the generous support of the Simons Foundation, the INI-Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mathematics is now in its second year of enabling “exceptional early career researchers in the mathematical sciences” to gain “experience, independence and new connections on their way to a successful academic career”.  In this episode of Living Proof,...