an idea not communicated can scarcely be said to exist

As an academic I spend most of my time producing mathematics that very few people understand. However, unless you can justify your research to the man in the street, i.e. the tax payer who funds the research, then what is the point of your research? With this aim in mind I spend much of my time doing outreach work.

Below you will find a selection of videos, sound clips and articles popularising many different mathematical aspects.
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Random Walks
Diffusion of the Dead
Mighty Morphogenesis
Gomboc
Cellular blebs
3/4 and Kleiber's law
Numberphile
James Grime and Alan Turing
Maths in the City
Everything is Mathematical
Everything is Mathematical
Everything is Mathematical
Everything is Mathematical
Maths in London
28 Minutes Later
Good Day Sacremento
Mathemagicians
Mathematicians Holiday
Mathematicians Holiday
Mathematicians Holiday
Mathematicians Holiday
Mathematicians Holiday
Mathematicians Holiday
Mathematicians Holiday
Mathematicians Holiday
Other media containing me:
  • The Independent- Students returning home for Christmas caused thousands of Covid infections, study suggests.
  • The Telegraph- More than 9,000 infected with Covid-19 as a result of students returning home for Christmas.
  • COMSOL (the company behind the software) picking up on my Kaiju modelling.
  • Scientific American covering my zebrafish work.
  • Cardiff study sheds light on zebrafish stripe mystery.
  • Mathematicians propose new model to quantify materials uncertainties
  • Interview with me on my current position and thoughts on an academic carrer.
  • Zebrafish discovery throws new light on human hearing disorders.
  • New app to implement social distancing on public transport.
  • Interview with me on my current position and thoughts on an academic carrer.
  • COVID-19: how many infections could returning university students cause?
  • Social distancing is making public transport worse for the environment than cars - here's how to fix it.
  • Coronavirus: Why the maths behind `COVID' alert levels makes no sense.
  • Godzilla, King Kong: films are actually spot on in how to defeat kaijus.
  • How animals got their spots and stripes - according to maths.
  • The incomplete map of the cosmic genome. What is mathematical biology? What can it do? What has it done?
  • Skeptics in the Pub Podcast - Cambridge. Sarah Castor-Perry interviews me about what maths tells us about a zombie infection.
  • SFX article. Article reviewing Nine worlds 2013 geek conference. Mentions me as the "best thing"!
  • An article in The Times about my zombie article, also picked up in the Times Higher Education.
  • Apparently, it appeared on io9 as well. I was not even told!
  • An article in CITYA.M. about other mathematical modelling of Halloween bad guys.
  • For the Spanish speakers amongst you here is a write up of my animal patterning work written after I gave a talk at the University of Mexico
  • The Oxford Science Blog covers the zombie mathematics.
  • The Oxford Science Blog also ran a piece on my stingray patterning research.
  • I appeared on Math/Maths podcast talking about my work on Dara O'Briain's School of Hard Sums.
  • Along with Will Binzi, I presented a podcast version of our maths workshop, "A Mathematician's Holiday". Although lacking the fun atmosphere the videos demonstrate how to run the workshop for school teachers.
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    Other outreach websites:
  • Maths at. A podcast about the maths of films that I run with my friends Ben Parker and Hannah Veale.
  • The laughing mathematician. My very own outreach blog.
  • WCMB blog. Articles on the cutting edge of mathematical biological research, written by the mathematicians.
  • Marcus' Marvellous Mathemagicians. Marcus du Sautoy's outreach group can be contacted through this webpage.
  • Maths in the City. Tours and articles on the maths behind your city.
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    Zombies
    In 2009 Robert Smith? wrote a mathematical biological paper on modelling an outbreak of zombies. His conclusions were bleak as it seems that if the dead should rise, there will be no room for the living.

    In 2010 he sent out an email call to his mathematical colleagues, asking if anyone was interested in writing a chapter for the book "The Mathematics of Zombie Invasion". I immediately jumped at the chance!

    The book came out Halloween 2014. However, if you can not get the book, I often give talks about my work at many different science festivals and workshops. If you're interested in knowing more please contact me.
    Zombie image courtesy of Martin Berube.