In Gresham College's new series, "Mathematics and the Making of the Modern World", Chris Budd explores how mathematics gives us a glimpse into the future both of technology and many other areas of our lives. On October 30th and Nov 1st, he will be delivering two lectures in this new series - "How Maths Can Save Your Life", and "Climate Change: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". 

In "How Maths Can Save Your Life", Chris  will explore how math done in 1915 behind modern medical imaging is now saving countless numbers of lives, and its applications in divese fields such as remote sensing, crime detection, adn stuyding bee populations. In "Climate Change: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", he will describe the mathematics underlying climactic modelling, the reliability of climate change models, and how math can give us insights into both the past and the future. 

About the Speaker

Gresham Professor of Geometry, Chris Budd OBE, is based at the University of Bath, where he is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Director of the Centre of Nonlinear Mechanics. He has a long history of engagement in the public understanding of science and mathematics through institutions such as the Royal Institution and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. A graduate of the Universities of both Oxford and Cambridge, Professor Budd has held the position of Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath for over twenty years. His other current positions include Chair of Mathematics at the Royal Institution at Great Britain since 2000, and Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the ICMS, Edinburgh, since 2015.