Tonight (24th October), We host Dr. Tom Crawford (Tom Rocks Maths) at the Martin Wood lecture theatre to give us a talk about modelling oceans and his collaboration with Team Seas.
Using Maths to Clean the Ocean: Where does river water go when it enters the ocean? And what does this have to do with plastic pollution? Dr Tom Crawford explains his PhD thesis in Fluid Dynamics, and shares the story of how he ended up sailing around Antarctica for 6 weeks in the name of maths.
Bio: Dr Tom Crawford teaches Maths at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, as well as running the award-winning ‘Tom Rocks Maths’ outreach programme. With over 25 million views on YouTube, it’s likely you’ve seen him taking a high school maths exam with no preparation, or talking all things fluid dynamics on Numberphile. When not misbehaving with numbers, Tom can usually be found playing football, snowboarding or getting a new maths tattoo (15 and counting…)
*Due to the later start time than usual we will have pizza reception before the talk this week!
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