Katie Steckles will talk to us about Math's Greatest Unsolved Puzzles. While mathematicians are undoubtedly brilliant, and their work is used in all kinds of amazing scientific and technological discoveries, there are still questions they can't answer. Every mathematical question is a puzzle to be solved, and while there'll be plenty of puzzles for you to chew on, we'll also discuss some of the questions that still leave mathematicians stumped - from simple-sounding number and shape problems to some truly mind-bending fundamental questions.

Katie Steckles is a mathematician based in Manchester, who gives talks and workshops and writes about mathematics. She finished her PhD in 2011, and since then has talked about maths at universities, schools events, festivals, on BBC radio and TV, in books and on the internet.

This Public Lecture is organised jointly by the British Mathematical Colloquium 2024 and the Manchester Interdisciplinary Mathematics Undergraduate Conference 2025, which are supported by Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, CMI, London Mathematical Society, The University of Manchester, Elsevier and EPSRC. 

The Public Lecture is being funded by Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research and London Mathematical Society.

** Please join us for light refreshments from 16:15 at the ground floor of Nancy Rothwell. **