Mathematical Objects Creators & Guests

Dr. Peter Rowlett teaches mathematics and related subjects, is a researcher in higher education mathematics teaching and learning practice, and is an experienced mathematics communicator.

Katie Steckles is a mathematician based in Manchester, who gives talks, workshops, and writes about mathematics.

Bec Hill is a comedian, writer, presenter, actor, and artist.

Sophie Maclean is a mathematician and experienced maths communicator currently studying for a PhD in Maths in London.

Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, lecturer on the Mathematics of Cities, television presenter and public speaker. Her work includes studying the patterns of human behavior, such as relationships and dating and how mathematics can apply to them.

Ben Orlin is a high school teacher and tutor in Oakland, California. He contributes regularly to Math with Bad Drawings.

Alom Shaha is a British-Bangladeshi science teacher, writer, and filmmaker. His books include The Young Atheist's Handbook: Lessons for Living a Good Life Without God, Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder: adventures in science round the kitchen table, and Mr Shaha's Marvellous Machines: adventures in making round the kitchen table. He has also written for The Guardian, The Big Issue, BBC Science Focus, New Humanist and New Scientist and spoken at events such as the Richmond Literature Festival and Cheltenham Science Festival.

Angela Tabiri is an AIMS-Google AI Postdoctoral Fellow at AIMS-Ghana. Between September to December 2019, she taught courses in Linear Algebra in the MSc program and Mathematics for Machine Learning in the AMMI program. Her research interests include noncommutative algebra, quantum groups and quantum homogeneous spaces.

Tim Harford is an economist and journalist.

Sam Hartburn is a freelance maths author, editor and animator.

Alison Kiddle is a mathematician, educator and maths communicator based in the East of England.

Christopher Danielson has taught math to learners of all ages. He now uses his PhD in mathematics education to create books and toys to support children's math development. Christopher is the developer of Math-On-A-Stick, an annual family math event at the Minnesota State Fair.

Tom Briggs is an English mathematics teacher and museum educator.

Catriona Agg is a maths teacher and fan of geometric puzzles.

Alex Corner is a Senior Lecturer in the mathematics subject group at Sheffield Hallam University. His research interests are in category theory and mathematics pedagogy in higher education. He is particularly interested in monoidal categories, higher categories, and operads.

Hana Ayoob is an events producer, speaker, and illustrator working science communication.

Sarah B. Hart is a British mathematician specialising in group theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London and the Head of Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck.

Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer are a husband and wife team of mathematicians and designers. Pat Ashforth uses textile art to illustrate mathematical priciples.

Chaim Goodman-Strauss is an American mathematician who works in convex geometry, especially aperiodic tiling. He is on the faculty of the University of Arkansas and currently serves as outreach mathematician for the National Museum of Mathematics. He is co-author with John H. Conway and Heidi Burgiel of The Symmetries of Things, a comprehensive book surveying the mathematical theory of patterns.