(above) fallen fruit from INI's apple tree, itself taken from a cutting of "Newton's tree" at Woolsthorpe Manor.

INI NEWS BULLETIN
September 2019

Dear friends, associates and supporters of INI,

Welcome to the September 2019 edition of our monthly news bulletin. In this release you will find the following five stories:

1. KIRK LECTURE VIDEO: watch Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow Associate Professor Lesley Ward's talk: "Fourier, harmonic analysis, and spaces of homogeneous type".
2. PODCAST OF THE MONTH: following this year's "Talking Maths in Public" conference we caught up with host, author, comedian and YouTuber Matt Parker.
3. NEWTON GATEWAY MILESTONE: INI's knowledge exchange arm celebrates its 100th event.
4. VIDEO INTERVIEW: exploring the "Fickle Heart" programme with two of its main Organisers.
5. FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS/TALKS/EVENTS: a guide to the coming month at INI.

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(above) Attendees at the cross-institution, IMA-led "Induction Course for New Lecturers in the Mathematical Sciences 2019" event, held at INI between 18-19 September. With over 60 new lecturers from 35 different institutions participating in this event, it was a great opportunity for the next generation of UK-based academics to see the Institute and hear about how to participate in its core activities.  

1. KIRK LECTURE VIDEO: watch Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow Associate Professor Lesley Ward's talk: "Fourier, harmonic analysis, and spaces of homogeneous type".

(above) Associate Professor Lesley Ward (South Australia), Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the "Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations" programme.

On Thursday 26th September Associate Professor Lesley Ward delivered her Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecture. Please see below for the talk's abstract and for a video link to re-watch the talk in full.

What do the integers, the Sierpinski gasket, compact Riemann surfaces and the Heisenberg group have in common? Each of them is a space of homogeneous type (X,d,m): a set X equipped with a way of measuring the distance between any two points (a quasi-metric d) and a way of measuring the volume of subsets of X (a doubling measure m). A familiar example is Euclidean space Rn equipped with the Euclidean metric and Lebesgue measure. Spaces of homogeneous type arise in many areas, including several complex variables and Riemannian geometry.

The Calderon-Zygmund theory in harmonic analysis deals with singular integral operators and the functions on which they act. Early impetus came from problems in partial differential equations and Fourier analysis. Here we focus on the generalisation from functions defined on Euclidean spaces Rn to functions defined on spaces X of homogeneous type. In particular, for general X the Fourier transform and the group structure of Rn are missing.

The goal is to build a Calderon-Zygmund theory on spaces of homogeneous type. I will survey some recent progress towards this goal.

2. PODCAST OF THE MONTH: following this year's "Talking Maths in Public" conference we caught up with host, author, comedian and YouTuber Matt Parker.

(above) Matt Parker of standupmaths.com

This year's edition of the biennial "Talking Maths in Public" conference was held at INI from 29-31 August. A tremendously well-attended event, the capacity crowd and full programme of talks included maths communicators from across the UK and beyond. 

For episode #15 of our podcast series, we sat down with event host, stand-up comic, famed YouTuber and author Matt Parker to tell us more about this meeting and the growing world of maths communication.

To subscribe to this and future episodes, find us on iTunes or search for "Isaac Newton Institute Podcast" using your favoured podcast app.

3. NEWTON GATEWAY MILESTONE: INI's knowledge exchange arm celebrates its 100th event.

Since its establishment in 2013 (as the Turing Gateway to Mathematics), the Newton Gateway to Mathematics has developed and delivered tens of events aimed at "bridging the gap between those engaged in frontier mathematical research and those working in more applied areas, by stimulating the interchange of knowledge and ideas".

Now, INI's knowledge exchange arm has reached the milestone of 100 such events. We hope you will join us in congratulating the team on this momentous achievement, and wishing them much success for the many future events to come.

4. VIDEO INTERVIEW: exploring the "Fickle Heart" programme with two of its main Organisers.

(above) "Fickle Heart" Organisers Professor Richard Clayton and Dr Steven Niederer.

In the latest of INI's programme organiser video interviews, we travelled to St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, London, to meet with Organisers Professor Richard Clayton and Dr Steven Niederer.

Please see below for the video interview link and a selection of images from their research centre within the NHS site.

(below) images of "Fickle Heart" research facilities at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth, London.

7. FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS/TALKS/EVENTS: looking forward to the month ahead at INI.

> Satellite Workshop: The future of structure-preserving algorithms 14-18 October 2019

> Newton Gateway Workshop: Artificial Intelligence Developments in Healthcare Imaging 23-24 October 2019

> Workshop: Complex analysis in mathematical physics and applications 28 October - 1 November 2019

> Newton Gateway Workshop: Industrial Applications of Complex Analysis 30 October 2019

See all forthcoming INI events here: https://www.newton.ac.uk/events/calendar

See all forthcoming INI seminars here: https://www.newton.ac.uk/events/seminars