Speaker profiles

• Professor Marika Taylor, University of Southampton
  Professor Taylor will discuss her path into scientific research and how she came to work with Stephen Hawking. Her current work ranges from fundamental physics, black holes and quantum theory, to interdisciplinary research including gender in science, and the talk will explore how this diverse portfolio developed from her experiences of working in science.

• Kathryn Leeming, British Geological Survey
  Kathryn Leeming is an Environmental Statistician at the British Geological Survey, specialising in spatiotemporal analysis. She completed a PhD at the University of Bristol and previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her current research includes applications in water security, hazard mapping, and baseline monitoring.

• Dr Asma Hassannezhad, University of Bristol
  Asma Hassannezhad will discuss the hidden beauty of mathematics, and will share her journey through the different stages of her academic career and give us a snapshot of captivating beauty and harmony of mathematics. Her research is in the area of spectral geometry. It lies at the intersection of several fields in mathematics including geometry, analysis and partial differential equations, and has a wide range of applications in physics, computer science, medical engineering, etc.

• Professor Nina Snaith, University of Bristol
  Nina Snaith is a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Bristol, researching in Random Matrix Theory. She is a long-standing member of the School of Mathematics, having done a PhD here herself over 20 years ago.
• Jennifer Chakravarty, University of Bristol
  Jenny Chakravarty is a Heilbronn fellow in Data Science at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD in Information Theory in 2020.
• Ben Griffiths, University of Bristol
  1st-year COMPASS student
• Alexander Modell, University of Bristol
  3rd-year COMPASS student
• Jenny Roberts, University of Bristol
  1st-year PhD student
• Huw Day, University of Bristol
  3rd-year PhD student
• Celine Maistret, University of Bristol
  Céline Maistret is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the University of Bristol. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 2017 and held two postdoctoral positions, one at the University of Bristol and another at Boston University before returning to Bristol in 2021. Her work lies in Number Theory and revolves around the arithmetic of abelian varieties, with a particular interest toward computations related to the parity conjecture and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
• Emma Hall, University of Bristol
  Emma Hall is a 3rd year PhD student with a focus in finite group theory.