Invited speakers
There will be a total of 7 keynote talks, from 3 academics in number theory, 3 academics in geometry, and one mathematician working outside of academia.Frances Kirwan, University of Oxford
Frances is the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford and conducts research in algebraic geometry. Frances studies moduli spaces by investigating their algebraic and topological properties. She has made important contributions to geometric invariant theory, a method for constructing quotients in algebraic geometry. Frances has also striven to address gender imbalance in the mathematics community, as a member of the European Women in Mathematics network and the London Mathematical Society’s Women in Mathematics Committee. Frances served as President of the London Mathematical Society from 2004–2006 and is a recipient of both its Whitehead Prize and Senior Whitehead Prize — awarded to early career and experienced mathematicians, respectively.
Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick
Diane is a Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick. Prior to Warwick she spent three years in the Mathematics Department at Rutgers University. Her research is in combinatorial and computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, with emphasis on toric varieties, Hilbert schemes, and tropical geometry.
Ana Caraiani, Bonn University & Imperial College London
Ana Caraiani is a Hausdorff Chair at the University of Bonn, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor (on leave) in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. She is a member of the Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry group in Bonn. Her interests include the classical and p-adic Langlands programs, Shimura varieties, and arithmetic geometry.
Rachel Newton, King's College London
Rachel received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012, under the supervision of Tim Dokchitser. She then held postdoctoral positions at Universiteit Leiden, MPIM Bonn and IHÉS before taking up a lectureship and associate professor position at the University of Reading in 2016. She joined King’s College London in 2021 as a Reader in Number Theory and a Future Leaders fellow. Her research interests include rational points on algebraic varieties, local-global principles, Brauer groups and Brauer–Manin obstructions, and arithmetic statistics.
Chloe Martindale, University of Bristol
Chloe Martindale is a Lecturer in Cryptography at the University of Bristol. Her current research interests include (but are not limited to) pairings on elliptic curves and genus 2 curves, isogeny-based post-quantum crypto. Her other research interests include Hilbert modular forms, genus 2 and 3 curves with complex multiplication, and isogeny graphs.
Rachael Boyd, University of Glasgow
Rachael is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. Previous to this, she was an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge, a postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, and an Alain Bensoussan ERCIM postdoc at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She received her PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2018. She is interested in developing new methods to study algebraic objects through the lenses of geometry and topology. Some topics she's interested in are Artin and Coxeter groups and monoids, classifying spaces of groups and group homology, topological invariants of diagram algebras and corresponding applications to low-dimensional topology, and low-dimensional embedding spaces.
Emma Bowley, Mathematician at the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory
Emma is a Senior Mathematician at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. Her work covers a wide range of mathematics, but she has specific interest in uses of graph theory techniques such as community detection and pattern discovery. She is also part of the Professional Affairs Committee of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and leads a cross government collaboration in maths and statistics.
