Response to withdrawal of funding for a National Academy

We are very disappointed with the Government’s withdrawal of their commitment of £6m over three years to fund a new National Academy focussed on Mathematical Sciences.  The case for a National Academy is compelling and unchanged.  We continue to support the creation of such an Academy to provide the essential connectivity between mathematicians working in academia, education, business, industry, and government […]

Prof. Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE (University of Cambridge)

Chance, luck, and ignorance; how to put our uncertainty into numbers We all have to live with uncertainty about what is going to happen, what has happened, and why things turned out how they did.  We attribute good and bad events as ‘due to chance’, label people as ‘lucky’, and (sometimes) admit our ignorance.  I will show how to use the […]

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