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My blog is Travels in a Mathematical World.

Math/Maths Podcast: Peter Rowlett in the UK calls Samuel Hansen in the US and the pair discuss topical mathematics. A podcast from Pulse-Project.org.
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Travels in a Mathematical World Podcast is a set of 64 episodes of mathematicians speaking in their own words about their work, maths history and maths news.
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Visit my YouTube channel for videos on puzzles and maths history, as well as higher education maths curriculum talks.

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Popular maths talks

1. The unplanned impact of mathematics: surprising examples of unexpected applications; British Mathematical Colloquium 2013, History of Mathematics workshop, University of Sheffield (27/03/2013).

2. The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics; History of Mathematics 2012, British Society for the History of Mathematics, Birmingham (08/12/2012).

3. Unplanned impact of mathematics guest seminar; University of Greenwich (06/12/2012).

4. Chair, IMA Early Career Mathematicians' Autumn Conference 2012; University of Greenwich (24/11/2012).

5. Preliminary analysis of a large data set; Maths Jam Conference 2012 (17/11/2012).

6. Solving It Like A Mathematician 2012; STEM Pop Up Shop, Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, Nottingham (26/10/2012).

7. Solving It Like A Mathematician 2012; East Midlands Big Bang 2012, East Midlands Conference Centre (28/06/2012).

8. History of cryptography; University of Salford (06/03/2012).

9. Unplanned impact of mathematics guest seminar; University of Greenwich (21/11/2011).

10. Chair, 15th IMA Early Career Mathematicians Conference; University of Bristol (19/11/2011).

11. Why the hot light bulb annoys me; Maths Jam Conference 2011 (12/11/2011).

12. Unplanned impact of mathematics; Maths Jam Conference 2011 (12/11/2011).

13. Maths Puzzles; SSAT Annual Maths Conference 2011, University of Warwick (13/07/2011).

14. Solving It Like A Mathematician 2011; East Midlands Big Bang 2011, East Midlands Conference Centre (28/06/2011).

15. A Maths History Tour of Nottingham; History of Maths splinter, British Mathematical Colloquium, University of Leicester (20/04/2011).

16. Chance and Coincidence; University of Leicester (04/02/2010) and Manchester Metropolitan University (23/02/2011).

17. Maths and Computing History tour of Nottingham; University of Greenwich (17/11/2010).

18. Bacon, Small-Worlds, and Your Important Friends: Social Network Theory Explained; University of Birmingham (15/11/2010) and University of Leicester (19/11/2010).

19. A curious fact about almost every integer; Maths Jam Conference 2010 (14/11/2010).

20. Thinking outside of the box; Maths Jam Conference 2010 (13/11/2010).

21. Math/Maths Week; Series of activites with Samuel Hansen, November 2010.

22. Careers for mathematics graduates; 39 UK universities (2008-2010) slides.

23. Cryptography; 9 universities (2008-10).

24. Shape of the cosmos; University of Nottingham (16/03/2010) video slides.

25. Puzzles; 7 universities (including 2 schools outreach events) (2009-10).

26. Substitution ciphers: Ancient - Renaissance; University of Nottingham (01/12/2009) video slides.

27. Spin in Ball Games; 5 universities (2009).