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TMiP Conference 2025 - Event Info
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TMiP 2025 will take place in the Zeeman Building at the University of Warwick. If you have registered for the event, please check your booking confirmation email for relevant information, and keep an eye out for further updates, which will be sent to the address you have booked with.
For the event programme, including details of Saturday morning activities, and how to submit a lightning talk, visit the programme page. This page includes information about how to book, joining remotely, our COVID policy, our event venues, our social venues and recommended hotels.
This event is being organised by the TMiP Committee, with assistance from a team of from the University of Warwick. We also have a hybrid event coordinator, Sam Langford, who will be on-site to assist with and coordinate the remote attendee experience.
Kevin Houston
University of Leeds
Katie Steckles
Freelance
Alison Kiddle
Freelance
Matthew Scroggs
University College London
Samantha Durbin
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Ben Sparks
Freelance/University of Bath
The event is supported by The University of Warwick Mathematics Institute, the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences and the Isaac Newton Institute.
Booking
Please use the form below to book a ticket to attend TMiP 2025, or scroll down for more information.
Conference tickets are priced at £140 for all three days, and include lunch and refreshments on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the conference dinner on Thursday night, and access to all sessions. Single-day tickets are available at a reduced rate, and include lunch but not the conference dinner on the Thursday, which can be booked separately. Dinner on Friday night will need to be paid for separately by attendees, and we will be organising a range of dinner options for small-group socials, ranging in cost.
In-person tickets do not include accommodation, and this will need to be booked separately. Details of how to book a space in the onsite halls are included further down this page, along with other recommended accommodation nearby. The conference is taking place on the Warwick campus, which has good bus links to the city centre, and Friday night dinner venues are close to public transport links in the city centre - details of our social venues are below.
PLEASE NOTE: The nearest train station to the uni is Coventry station. There is a station called Warwick, but it is not near the university and if you get a train there you will struggle to get public transport to the campus (amused taxi drivers are occasionally available for a fee).
While there are no official sessions on the evening of Wednesday 27th August, the organisers and many attendees will be around and staying over the night before - there will be a nominated location for socialising, as well as a special mathematical musical treat!
Remote tickets cost £30 for the whole event, and all of Thursday and Friday's programmed sessions will be livestreamed with opportunities to interact, and Saturday's networking activities will also be accessible online where possible. All ticket types will be able to access links to recordings of the sessions for a limited time after the event.
Attendees will receive a conference pack including event info, other relevant materials and some goodies and free gifts from our supporting organisations. Remote attendees will get an electronic version of the conference pack, and those based in the UK (for bookings placed before 10th August) will be posted a conference pack to a specified address, to arrive ahead of the conference.
In the interests of protecting the environment, we've tried hard to make sure the contents of the conference pack are in general things people will find useful, or otherwise recyclable or consumable. Large print versions will be available.
Bursaries and Funding
We have a limited number of funded bursary places to the conference - for students, low-income and early-career attendees, or anyone who would otherwise not be able to afford to attend. Bursaries cover full attendance at the event, and travel/accommodation where needed.
To apply for a bursary, please complete the Bursary Application Form. The deadline for bursary applications is noon on 20th June 2025, and recipients will be notified on or before 25th June, and sent a link to register for the event if they are successful.
We also have limited funding available to cover accessibility requirements for attending our event. If you have additional costs in order to attend, please contact the organisers.
Joining Remotely
All remote activity will take place through Zoom.
The link to the Zoom room will be added here shortly.
The passcode to enter the room will be included in your conference pack, and sent in an email to registered attendees. You can either download the Zoom client, or click ‘Join from your Browser’ to access the sessions in your existing web browser.
All the sessions will be recorded, and if you participate in the session your video and audio may also be captured by the recording. Recordings will be available only to registered conference attendees for a limited period after the conference, and will not be shared elsewhere. If you don’t want to appear in the recording, we don’t want this to stop you from joining in with the sessions - if this is the case, and you would like us to edit out your likeness and/or comments, we can do this - please contact the organisers by emailing info@talkingmathsinpublic.uk after the conference.
There will be automatic live captioning in Zoom, which can be accessed by clicking the ‘CC’ or Live Transcript button. If you have any further questions about joining online, or need guidance on how to use Zoom, please contact us by emailing info@talkingmathsinpublic.uk.
During coffee and lunch breaks, the Zoom room will show a feed from the main lecture theatre MS.02. Online and in-person attendees will be able to interact with each other, and our hybrid coordinator will assist.
During the parallel sessions, there will be a breakout room in Zoom for each parallel activity. You can choose the breakout room you want to join, or move between rooms during the session.
Sam Langford is a freelance science communicator, public engagement consultant and event host who is passionate about creating high quality, inclusive experiences for in-person and online audiences. He is the creator of the online science communication initiative Global Science Show, can be found playing STEM themed TTRPGs with Science & Sorcery and is an occasional comedian and TikToker. He is very excited to be the hybrid coordinator for Talking in Maths Public 2025.
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COVID policy
Our event is being held on a busy university campus, in a shared building in which masking isn’t a requirement. We will aim to keep doors and windows open where possible, and our main lecture theatre will have a large capacity allowing for people to sit further apart, but we’re aware that it won’t be possible to guarantee a fully COVID transmission-free environment. Remote attendance is an option for anyone who would find it unsafe to attend under these conditions.
As such we would ask anyone attending the event to take a rapid lateral flow test prior to setting off or arriving at the event. Anyone who tests positive for COVID and is unable to come will be offered a refund of their ticket down to the cost of a remote attendance ticket, which will allow them to access remote sessions and recordings. Please also plan to test during the event, each morning before coming into the building. We will have a limited number of test kits available for people who need them, but please bring your own if possible. If you test positive during the event, we would ask you not to join the remainder of the in-person sessions, and can send you details to join remotely.
If you have any questions about our COVID policy, please contact the organisers on info@talkingmathsinpublic.uk.
Venue Details
Getting here
The conference will take place at the University of Warwick, which is in Coventry in the centre of England in the UK. We will run most of the scheduled conference sessions in rooms in the Zeeman Building (CV4 7EZ), which houses the Warwick Mathematics Institute.
The Zeeman Building is located on the Warwick University Campus, which is to the south-west of the city of Coventry. Buses run from the centre of Coventry to the University Interchange bus station at Warwick campus, which is a 10-minute walk from the Zeeman building.
Parking on campus
Limited car parking is available on campus at a cost of £8 per day.
Virtual Campus Tours
Interactive Campus Map (shows the building layout)
Campus Virtual Tour (showing the layout of buildings)
Virtual Zeeman Building (inside the ground floor)
Rooms
The Zeeman building has level access through automatic double doors at the entrance, and accessible toilets on all main floors. There is a nursing room and quiet room in the building. A grocery store is located in the students' union building, which is 10 minutes' walk away.
Most sessions will take place in MS.02 on the ground floor of the Zeeman building, on the right of the main atrium.
During the breaks and lunch, our sponsors and other friendly organisations will be running tables in the main Zeeman atrium as well as in the A0.05 Undergraduate Workroom on the ground floor. There will also be an exhibition of mathematical art, which attendees can contribute to (details in the Other Activities section).
Parallel sessions will take place in rooms MS.01, the IAS Seminar room and PC room A0.02, as well as MS.03, MS.04 and MS.05 on the second floor.
There is a quiet room located in BS.07
If you have any other questions about the venue or have any accessibility requirements we may be able to help with, please contact the organisers.
Accommodation
In-person tickets for TMiP do not include accommodation, and this will need to be booked separately. We have reserved a block of rooms in central campus accommodation for our attendees to book.
If you use this accommodation booking link, you'll be able to book one of those rooms using the code TMIP25 (valid for the nights of 27th-29th August), and the cost will be £61 per night (including VAT and breakfast). The code will be valid until 16th July 2025. If you have any questions about the accommodation, including accessibility requests, or if you're attending TMiP with a group of colleagues and would like to be assigned to rooms in a shared flat together, you can contact the Warwick accommodation team (including the details of your bookings), on reservations@warwick.ac.uk.
If you'd like to make your own accommodation arrangements separately, there are other accommodation options onsite including conferencing facilities. You may also wish to stay in one of the many hotels in the centre of Coventry, although this will require travelling to campus and back again for sessions on the Thursday and Friday (~30 mins by bus).
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Social Venues
Across the week, we will be using several other venues on campus and in the city centre for social activities.
Location TBC - bar on campus
For anyone arriving on Wednesday, there will be some pre-TMiP social activities organised on campus. Details TBC.
Varsity, Gibbett Hill Road, CV4 7AJ
Conference fee includes all-you-can eat buffet meal, and one drink. A token to redeem your drink will be provided, and we have booked the right-hand half of the pub as you come in through the main doors - anything to the right is our area. Venue has disabled access, cask ale and baby changing facilities.
Friday night dinner will be a distributed social across a range of venues in the city centre. Attendees will sign up for one of the venues during the day, and then split into smaller groups to eat. The list of venues will be added here once it's finalised.
The Flying Standard, 2–10 Trinity Street, Coventry, CV1 1FL
We have reserved the whole of the dining area, which is to the right of the entrance as you come in. The space has level access (a platform lift is available to get from by the bar) and the pub has baby changing facilities.
Herbert Art Gallery - Jordan Well, Coventry CV1 5QP (within 15 minutes walk of the train station)
On Saturday morning, we'll be in the Studio space at the Herbert Art Gallery from 10am-12pm for craft activities and board games. We'll supply some materials and instructions for mathematical craft activities, and you're welcome to bring your own. We'll also supply some board games and there'll also be our now-traditional puzzle hunt set by Matthew Scroggs.
Following this, we'll stay in the studio for lunch (all-vegetarian buffet with vegan and gluten-free options), which will include final notices for the event and conclude at 1pm.