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Can You Do Mathematics In A Crowd? - Chris Budd OBE

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Channel: Gresham College · 2018 · Education

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0:00 // Introduction & Lecture Overview
1:24 // Asthma: The Most Common Chronic Lung Disease
2:48 // The Physiology of Asthma
4:12 // Triggers and Attacks
5:36 // Genetics of Asthma
7:00 // Allergy and the Immune Response
8:24 // Diagnosis and Long-Term Management
9:48 // How Inhalers Work
11:12 // COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
12:36 // Smoking as the Primary Cause of COPD
14:00 // Air Pollution and Lung Disease
15:24 // Occupational Lung Disease
16:48 // Cystic Fibrosis: Genetics and Impact
18:12 // CFTR Modulators: A Transformative New Treatment
19:36 // Reducing the Global Burden of Lung Disease
21:00 // Conclusion & Summary

We all find ourselves in crowds every so often. Whilst human behaviour in general can be very hard to predict, it is possible, to a certain extent, to predict the behaviour of large numbers of people in a crowd. In this lecture I will explain the mathematics behind herding and flocking and will use this to shed some insight into how crowds of people behave. I will then show how this is helpful for the designers of sports stadia, the police, the home office and even retail stores.

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/can-you-do-mathematics-in-a-crowd

This event was on Tue, 24 Apr 2018

Chris Budd OBE is based at the University of Bath, where he is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Director of the Centre of Nonlinear Mechanics. He has a long history of engagement in the public understanding of science and mathematics.

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