Organised by Protect Pure Maths and supported by the Council for Mathematical Sciences as well as the five learned mathematical societies, this one-day summit is an unprecedented event bringing together leaders from academia, industry and politics to discuss how the mathematical sciences can better contribute to research, innovation and prosperity.
 

Hosted by Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, the Summit will also hear from those at the cutting edge of research, as well as from those working in industry, business and politics including:

 

• Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology 

• Anne Keast-Butler, Director, GCHQ 

• Sir Adrian Smith PRS, President, Royal Society

• Professor Charlotte Watts CMG FMedSci, Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence, UK FCDO

• Professor Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director, Cambridge Zero

• Sir Martin Taylor FRS, Chair, Royal Society ACME

• Lucy-Marie Hagues, CEO, Capital One UK  

• Prof Catherine Hobbs, Honorary Secretary (Education), The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

• Sir Andrew Dilnot CBE, Nuffield College, Oxford

• Professor Jon Keating FRS, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford

• George Freeman MP, former Science Minister 

• Professor Julia Gog OBE, Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Cambridge

• Pamela Dow, COO, Civic Future and former Founding Executive Director, Government Skills Campus and Leadership College

• Professor Charlotte Deane MBE, Executive Chair, EPSRC   

• Dr Simon Singh MBE, Science Author and Zeeman Medallist   

• Bobby Seagull, Mathematics Teacher, Broadcaster and Writer   

• Professor Alison Etheridge OBE FRS, Chair, Council for Mathematical Sciences

• Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge

• Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP, Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education

 

The Summit will be followed by a networking drinks reception in the Science Museum’s Winton Gallery, where the mathematics exhibition examines the fundamental role mathematicians, their tools and ideas have played in building the world we live in.