The School of Mathematics is pleased announce that Dr. Hannah Fry will be presenting at the 2016 Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture.
The annual lecture, open to students, staff and the public, takes place on Thursday 13 October 2016, 6.30-7.30pm (with coffee and registration from 6pm) in Lecture Theatre B, University Place.
We all like to think of ourselves as strong, independent and single-minded individuals. But despite our illusion of free will, despite the seemingly random sets of circumstances that bring about our decisions, our behaviour as humans is surprisingly easy to predict.
The more we use technology, the more we leave behind a data footprint of our actions in almost everything that we do. These traces of human behaviour are captured in the numbers and reveal surprisingly simple mathematical patterns that unite us all. Patterns that can predict our behaviour and have the potential to shape the way we view our societies and cities.
But new, big data also comes with new, big problems and there’s a reason why – despite the data deluge – we seem as ill-informed as ever.
Join Dr. Hannah Fry, Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London and regular on TV and YouTube, as she charts the highs and lows of our relationship with data, revealing the delightful insights the numbers can offer and demonstrating how often they can be downright misleading!
You can find out more about the lecture and Dr. Fry, or just register straight away! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact jenny.sloan@manchester.ac.uk or + 44 (0) 161 275 5812
Posted on behalf of Jenny Sloan, Admissions and External Affairs Assistant,
School of Mathematics, Faculty of Science & Engineering, The University of Manchester.