The plenary lecture

What is the use of probability and statistics in an uncertain world?

will be given by Prof David Spiegelhalter, who is Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge and a senior scientist at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit. Prof Spiegelhalter is an ISI highly cited researcher and the 34th most-cited mathematical scientist in the world over the last ten years. He is well known for his entertaining lectures and the plenary lecture will be accessible to all participants of the conference. Check out his website Understanding Uncertainty.

The keynote talks (one per session) will be given by

• Prof Tom Bridgeland, University of Sheffield (Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry)
• Dr Jonathan Dawes, University of Bath (Nonlinear Dynamics)
• Prof Jonathan Forster, University of Southampton* (Statistics)
• Prof Ben Green, University of Cambridge (Additive Combinatorics)
• Dr Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol (Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics)
• Dr Tom Leinster, University of Glasgow (Category Theory)
• Prof Nick Manton, University of Cambridge (Quantum Field Theory, Supersymmetry) - Talk Title "From Klein Polynomials to Carbon-12"
• Dr Harvey Reall, University of Cambridge (General Relativity, String Theory)
• Dr Mike Tehranchi, University of Cambridge (Quantitative Finance)
• Dr Toby Wiseman, Imperial College London* (String Theory)

* to be confirmed