Speakers

Sara Jabbari is a Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Birmingham. Her research group use interdisciplinary approaches to understand microbial behaviour, focusing on using mathematical modelling to develop or improve treatments for bacterial infections. Combining models with experimental data, they study bacteria from the intra-cellular level up to host-pathogen interactions.

Matt Keeling is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He is interested in using a range of mathematical modelling techniques to understand complex biological problems. His work focuses on infectious diseases, how they spread through populations and how they can be controlled. He is particularly interested in how the predictions of models can be used to help deliver effective policy advice, highlighting the many trade-offs present. He has worked on the 2001 Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak, the 2009 Swine flu pandemic, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic, providing projections and analyses to government agencies.

Matthew Hennessy is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Bristol and head of the Complex and Functional Materials Lab. His research group combines mathematical modelling with experiments to learn about the behaviours of fluids and solids. Active research areas include the mechanics of hydrogels, complex fluids, light-driven 3D printing and lithium-ion batteries.

A representative from the Smith Institute will deliver a plenary talk.