2012 - Maths and Science

2012 Maths and Science Summer School

24th - 26th March 2012The Mathematical Bridge, Queens' College Cambridge

The Prince's Teaching Institute held a joint Maths and Science Summer School in Cambridge from Saturday 24th - Monday 26th March. Speakers included:

  • Professor Martin Rees OM, the internationally renowned scientist and ex-President of The Royal Society. He is currently Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College Cambridge
  • Dr Hugh Hunt from the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and star of the Channel 4 documentary Dambusters
  • Professor Celia Hoyles OBE, Director of The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics
  • Mr Francis Wells, Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge and the first surgeon to perform open-heart surgery live on television, in 2007
  • Dr Emily Shuckburgh, climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge, and part-time secondee to the UK Government’s department of Energy and Climate Change.
  • Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of a number of popular science titles, including The Most Beautiful Molecule (1994) and Periodic Tales (Penguin, 2011), a cultural companion to the chemical elements.

The Summer School was attended by 80 Maths and Science teachers from state secondary schools.