Our live online Faculty events for alumni share insights and ideas from the wide range of Cambridge mathematics through informal discussion with the researchers involved.
Details of future events are sent out in our regular alumni email newsletters, and you can also watch recordings of all the past events in this new series below.
We would be delighted to hear your feedback: please feel welcome to contact us by emailing alumni@maths.cam.ac.uk.
Alumni event November 2024 - Artificial Intelligence: Accelerating Research at the University of Cambridge
In November 2024 Dr Miles Cranmer and Dr James Fergusson from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) were joined by fellow Cambridge academics and an audience of Cambridge alumni for a live webinar discussion exploring some of the ways in which AI is advancing science, and the real-world implications.
The discussion focused on recent work by Dr Miles Cranmer, Assistant Professor in Data Intensive Science in DAMTP and the Institute of Astronomy; Dr Emily Lines from the Department of Geography; and Professor Michele Vendruscolo (Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry).
The webinar was chaired by Dr James Fergusson (DAMTP), Associate Professor in the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science, the MPhil in Data Intensive Science, and the Cambridge Infosys AI hub.
Alumni event May 2022 - Unveiling Mysteries of the Quantum World
In May 2022 Dr Maria Ubiali and Dr Sergii Strelchuk from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics joined Professor Colm-Cille Caulfield and an audience of Cambridge alumni to discuss their latest research.
The discussion focused on their recent results, exploring how developments in computational machine learning are revealing mysteries from the quantum world, and how quantum effects can be applied in turn to revolutionise the ways in which scientists process information.
Alumni Festival event September 2021 - Maths or Medicine: Which Comes First?
Mathematics and statistics are driving a revolution in medicine and healthcare, but exciting new maths is also being discovered thanks to the challenges that healthcare raises.
In this conversation, recorded as part of the 2021 Cambridge Alumni Festival, Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb and Professor Sir John Aston discuss how medicine has led them to work on all kinds of maths and statistics, much of which has applications in some very different places.
Alumni event June 2021 - Applying Mathematics in Healthcare
In June 2021 Professor Julia Gog OBE, Professor Paul Linden FRS and Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb joined Professor Colm-Cille Caulfield, Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, to discuss some of the ways in which mathematics is contributing to global healthcare.
This was the first in a new series of live online Faculty events for alumni, sharing insights and ideas from the wide range of Cambridge mathematics through informal discussion with the researchers involved.