Maths Enrichment Day at the University of Essex - 1st July 2013

Winsten Day for Schools

The Department of Mathematical Sciences hosts an annual Winsten Day, a free enrichment day for Year 12 students, in honour of Professor Christopher Winsten. Professor Winsten was an internationally respected probability theorist and former member of the Department, who passed away in May 2005. Christopher Winsten's reputation is based on his application of mathematical and statistical ideas to areas of economics leading to the eponymous Prais-Winsten transformation still used by modern economists today and to the groundbreaking Beckmann-McGuire-Winsten (1955) approach to transportation economics. Chris had an intuitive geometrical approach that found solutions to difficult analytic problems. He left the bulk of his fortune to further the reputation of Essex mathematics.
The Winsten Day finishes with the annual Winsten Lecture given by a notable speaker from the world of Mathematics. The lecture is open to the public. Simon Singh was the guest speaker in 2011 and in 2012 Professor John Barrow, from the University of Cambridge, gave the talk.

For more information please visit:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/pdfs/winsten_day_pdfs/2013/A4_Winsten_Day_Poster_17275_WEB.pdf