Soccermatics: this year's Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture
20 Sep 2017
This popular annual evening event hosted by the School of Mathematics will take place this year on Thursday, 19 October
This year's lecture will be given by Professor David J T Sumpter, a professor in Applied Mathematics at Uppsala University, Sweden.
He studied for his PhD in Manchester under David Broomhead and made his way to Sweden in 2007.
He is particularly interested in looking at collective animal behaviour including fish, birds and ants. Working with experimentalists, Sumpter and colleagues have developed models to describe the general characteristics of collective behaviour. They have also turned their attention to serious social issues including education, health and sustainability as a way to help the policy-makers.
The title of this year's lecture is:
Football is not only the most beautiful of sports, but it is also the most mathematical. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers, patterns and shapes. Find out from David Sumpter how to make sense of all these numbers.
Event registration is essential.
The generosity of Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw for the donation of funds to our School of Mathematics enables us to hold this lecture every year.