19 – 20 March 2025

Nancy Rothwell Lecture Theatre B, University of Manchester, UK

The Public Lecture is supported by the Heilbronn Institute Small Grants Scheme

The 4th Manchester Interdisciplinary Mathematics Undergraduate Conference (MIMUC) will bring together participants, taught students, from across the Faculty of Science and Engineering a two-day programme of talks. The conference aims to improve the student experience of undergraduate and MSc students of the University of Manchester and to encourage interdisciplinary research and collaboration across students of STEM, this is the perfect opportunity to develop skills that are not taught in a lecture theatre.

Public Lecture: Maths’ Greatest Unsolved Puzzles

Speaker: Katie Steckles

While mathematicians are undoubtedly brilliant, and their work is used in all kinds of amazing scientific and technological discoveries, there are still questions they can’t answer. Every mathematical question is a puzzle to be solved, and while there’ll be plenty of puzzles for you to chew on, we’ll also discuss some of the questions that still leave mathematicians stumped – from simple-sounding number and shape problems to some truly mind-bending fundamental questions.

About the speaker: Katie Steckles is a mathematician based in Manchester, who gives talks and workshops and writes about mathematics. She finished her PhD in 2011, and since then has talked about maths at universities, schools events, festivals, on BBC radio and TV, in books and on the internet.

Organiser:

Holly Barker (Manchester)