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| Norman Fenton at the Winchester Science Festival |
I had the privilege of being an invited speaker today at this weekend's annual
Winchester Science Festival, presenting a talk on "Fallacies of Probability and Risk" (the slides of which can be downloaed from
here).
It's
the first time I have spoken at one of these big 'popular science'
events and I was very impressed by it. There were people of all
different age groups attending both the talks and the various activities
in the reception area and the audience was really enthusiastic and
responsive.
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| Norman Fenton during his talk |
Judging by the other talk I managed to attend before
mine (coincidentally by a former Queen Mary student Marcus Chown** with
the same title as his latest
book) and the event I attended last night (see below) - it was clear that this festival was a high quality, well organised event.
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| Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Matt Parker of QM in the centre |
I arrived in time last night for a performance of the
Festival of the Spoken Nerd. This amazing show consists of three scientists/entertainers: stand-up mathematician
Matt Parker (
who happens to be Maths Outreach Coordinator at Queen Mary), experiments maestro
Steve Mould and geek songstress/physicist
Helen Arney. They
manage to provide 90 minutes of quality humour and mathematics
education at the same time. They were actually previewing their new show
which they will performing at the Edinburgh Festival and on a UK tour. I
strongly recommend you go to it.
**Marcus's website is
here.
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