Lancaster University School of Mathematics (LUSOM) Lectures

As part of the Mathematics Department’s continuing links with the Lancaster University School of Mathematics (LUSOM), students from years 7, 8 and 9 have been invited to attend a guest lecture on February 9th 2022 which will be presented by Emeritus Professor from Lancaster University called Richard Eglese.

Professor Richard Eglese will be delivering a lecture on using Mathematics to make better decisions, specifically regarding opportunities in Operational Research. The talk will introduce what is meant by Operational Research and related terms, such as Analytics. Examples will be given of the sorts of problems that are tackled in Operational Research and the types of organisation that can provide careers within this area. Professor Richard Eglese studied Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Physics at A level and went on to read Mathematics at Cambridge University.

The talk is aimed at all KS3 students to help understand the various opportunities that continuing to study Maths can bring.

This is an online talk. To attend, please register your details by following below link:

https://go.cardinalnewman.ac.uk/form/lusomtalkmath

Mr Cheal

Mathematics Department

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