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(above) Dr Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas of Plus magazine, now "official" collaborators with INI and guests on our latest podcast episode.
INI NEWS BULLETIN
February 2021
Dear friends, associates and supporters of INI,
Welcome to the February 2021 edition of our monthly news bulletin. Earlier this month we sent a special message announcing the appointment of Professor Ulrike Tillmann as our next Director. We hope you will join us in warmly welcoming her when she succeeds Professor David Abrahams on 1 October 2021.
In other news, INI hosted a stimulating one-off event this month introducing the JUNIPER (Joint UNIversities Pandemic and Epidemiological Research) initiative, a UKRI funded consortium of epidemiology modelling groups from seven universities: Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, Lancaster, Manchester, Oxford and Warwick. Please do visit the event's homepage to learn more about this exciting undertaking and to view the talks delivered at your leisure.
It has also been a successful period for the 2020 "Infectious Dynamics of Pandemics" programme, with another celebrated pre-print having been recently published. You will find it available to view on newton.ac.uk. Please also visit this link to see how INI-generated research is proving influential for the UK government's ongoing COVID-19 response.
Below, you will find details of our latest podcast interview with the editors of Plus magazine, and details of our forthcoming Cambridge Festival talk by the excellent Dr Emily Shuckburgh.
Thanks as always for your continued support.
- INI Communications team
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(above) Lead image from the "Applicable resurgent asymptotics: towards a universal theory" programme, which begins on Monday 1 March.
(above) A new title and a new logo for the two-year-old INI podcast series.
PODCAST OF THE MONTH: all about Plus magazine, with editors Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas.
After nearly two years and almost 30 episodes, we have rebranded our podcast. We hope that the new title and logo appeal. To celebrate, we've interviewed Dr Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas, editors of Plus magazine. The timing is apt, as INI has recently entered into a long-term collaboration with the superlative mathematics website and magazine. Make sure to look out for plenty of Plus-branded content appearing on newton.ac.uk and via our social media channels in the coming weeks and months.
Click the link below to hear Dan Aspel speak to Marianne and Rachel about: mathematical journalism, spreading a love of numbers, the late, great John Barrow, the many joys of being a maths communicator, and the thrill that comes from finding and inspiring audiences with the most unusual of subjects.
00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Welcome
01:30 - A little background about Marianne
04:05 - A little background about Rachel
07:12 - A tribute to John Barrow
08:36 - Choosing communication over research
11:40 - Who is the average +Plus reader?
13:25 - The appeal of +Plus
17:05 - “Maths and hallucinations” (an article with “quite interesting comments”)
22:05 - Collaborating with INI
30:32 - Plans for the future
32:45 - Terrible coffee… but good conversation
CAMBRIDGE FESTIVAL: "Mathematics: a tool kit to tackle climate change", register now for access to Dr Emily Shuckburgh's forthcoming talk in the newly branded event - 27 March @ 15:00
(above) Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero and INI's guest speaker for the Cambridge Festival 2021.
The Cambridge Festival, a newly launched fusion of the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas and a new highlight of Cambridge University's calendar, will take place from 26 March to 4 April 2021. We are proud to say that INI's contribution will come courtesy of Dr Emily Shuckburgh, whose previous opportunity to deliver this exact talk was sadly derailed by the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown during this same period of 2020.
"Mathematics: a tool kit to tackle climate change" will be delivered virtually, with the opportunity for audience questions afterwards, on Saturday 27 March from 15:00-16:00. Please see below for a short summary of the talk and a link to registering your interest. Streaming links will be sent to those that have done so in the days preceding the event.
How can mathematics help combat the most pressing issue of our age? Join climate scientist and mathematician Dr Emily Shuckburgh, who will be talking about her research on modelling localised effects of climate change including floods, droughts and extreme weather.
A world-leading climate scientist and science communicator, Dr Emily Shuckburgh is the Director of Cambridge Zero. She is also Reader in Environmental Data Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. In her previous role at the British Antarctic Survey she led a national research programme on polar climate change. She is co-author of the Ladybird book on Climate Change.
