A Festival of Maths for Sixth Formers

3, 4, 5 February 2025
The Royal Institution, London
27 February 2025
Kensington Town Hall, London W8

KS5, keen KS4

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Speakers

Your speakers for Maths Fest 2025 will be:

Matt Parker

Top YouTuber and Standup Mathematician

Matt Parker is maths author and YouTuber who started out as a classroom maths teacher. His second book, Humble Pi, topped the Sunday Times bestseller list – the first ever maths book to do this. Matt is also one-third of Festival of the Spoken Nerd and a regular on BBC Radio 4. But he’s probably most famous as a YouTuber; his channel Stand up Maths has 1,000,000 subscribers and his videos have had over 100 million views.

standupmaths.com


Ben Sparks

27 February 2025 (Kensington Town Hall) only

Mathematician and Musician

Ben Sparks is a mathematician and musician who travels the country demonstrating the beauty of maths and occasionally singing about it. He’s based at University of Bath and gets surprisingly passionate about maths, music, the maths of music and the music of maths. He is also a big fan of imaginary numbers, and you may have seen him getting excited about them (and other mathsy things) on YouTube on the Numberphile channel, and his own SparksMaths channel.

bensparks.co.uk


Aoife Hunt

Industrial Modelling Expert

Aoife Hunt is a mathematician and specialist in simulation modelling. In her day job, she investigates the way people move when they are in crowds, to help make big events safer. In her spare time, she tries to use maths to write pop music… it hasn’t worked yet!


Rob Eastaway

Puzzle Expert and Best-Selling Author

Rob Eastaway is a speaker and author whose books on everyday maths include the bestselling Why Do Buses Come In Threes? and Maths on the Back of an Envelope. He is the puzzle adviser to New Scientist magazine, and often appears on BBC Radio 4 and 5 Live to talk about the maths of everyday life.

robeastaway.com


James Grime

Internet Maths Phenomenon

James Grime has toured the world with his code-breaking talk and a genuine WWII Enigma machine. In his spare time, James creates videos about maths for Youtube – propelling him into an international maths celebrity with millions of views. He also invented the Non-transitive Grime Dice which now bear his name.

singingbanana.com


Nicole Cozens

Maths Teacher and Exam Expert

Maths teacher and exam expert who starred alongside Matt Parker on the BBC’s The Maths Show, Nicole Cozens has been enthusing young people about maths and avidly marking their exams for 15 years. She also promotes the wonder of maths in her role with the Advanced Maths Support Programme and makes maths out of this world with her work at the National Space Academy.