the maths summit

The UK’s first Maths Summit took place on 12 March 2024 at the Science Museum in London. This groundbreaking event convened policymakers, businesses, and academics to discuss how the mathematical sciences can better contribute to research, innovation and prosperity.

Organised by CaMS, the summit brought together the whole mathematical sciences community, with supported from the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, the Council for the Mathematical Sciences and the UK’s five mathematical learned societies.

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Hosted by Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, the summit had an impressive array of speakers, including leading politicians and public figures, as well as leaders working across research and industry:

• Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology​​

• ​Cat McKinnell MP, Shadow Minister for Schools

• Anne Keast-Butler, Director, GCHQ

• Sir Adrian Smith PRS, President, Royal Society

• Sir Martin Taylor FRS, Chair, Royal Society ACME

• Lucy-Marie Hagues, CEO, Capital One UK 

• Professor Charlotte Watts CMG FMedSci, Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence, UK FCDO

• Professor Julia Gog OBE, Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Cambridge

• Professor Charlotte Deane MBE, Executive Chair, EPSRC  

• Professor Alison Etheridge OBE FRS, Chair, Council for Mathematical Sciences

• Prof Catherine Hobbs, Honorary Secretary (Education), The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications