Birmingham Popular Maths Lecture - Big Data

"The total amount of information generated by the human race before the digital age was around one Exabyte (one million million million letters). Today, that amount of data is circulated across the internet in a matter of days. Information networks are generating data of a kind and scale not seen before. How much information is there in that data, how can it be extracted and managed, and what use can we make of it? This talk shows how mathematics helps to provide some of the answers."

Dr. Richard Pinch
Strategic Advisor, Mathematics Research, Cheltenham

The Birmingham Popular Mathematics Lectures are open to all members of the public and the University who are interested in the study of Mathematics. They are particularly suitable for those studying Mathematics at A Level and we also welcome advanced GCSE students. Young people are welcome on their own, with parents or with a school group.

The lectures are free of charge and in general there is no need to register. The lectures start at 7.30pm and last one hour, please arrive in the Watson building from 7pm onwards. If you are travelling by minibus please contact us to arrange parking, otherwise please see the University's general travel information which includes a campus map, where the Watson Building is labelled R15.