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Distinguished Speaker Symposium: Aerodynamics and the Navier-Stokes equation

15 September 2025
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We explore one of mathematics’ most powerful and puzzling equations from two radically different perspectives.

We’re thrilled to announce the next G-Research Distinguished Speaker Symposium will take place on the 30th September 2025 and you could attend.

Focusing on aerodynamics and the Navier-Stokes equation, we’ll take a deep-dive into one of mathematics’ great unsolved problems from both industry and academic perspectives with world-leading experts in cutting-edge Formula 1 engineering and frontier theoretical mathematics.

Our speakers

  • Adam Kenyon (Head of Aerodynamics at Williams Racing)
  • Fabrice Moncade (Chief Engineer, Computing Science at Williams Racing)
  • Edriss S. Titi (Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge)

The event

Where: Grand Temple, Central London, WC2B 5AZ

When: Tuesday 30th September 2025

Times: 17:00 – 22:30 (doors from 16:00)

16:00-17:00 Arrival

17:00-18:00 From simulation to speed: How CFD and real-time modelling drive F1 car performance (Adam Kenyon and Fabrice Moncade)

18:00-18:30 Refreshments

18:30-19:30 The Navier-Stokes equation: Solving a Millennium Prize Problem (Professor Edriss S. Titi)

19:30-20:15 Joint panel discussion and audience Q&A

20:15-22:30 Drinks and canapés reception

Want to attend?

Tickets are complimentary, and travel costs will be reimbursed for UK-based students travelling from outside London.

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Check out the last Distinguished Speaker Symposium

Hello and welcome everybody to the, uh, G-Research Distinguished Speaker Symposium on prime numbers and cryptography. I'm, uh, really excited to be up here today introducing our first distinguished speaker and one of the real unsung pioneers of modern cryptography. It is with great pleasure that I ask you all to join with me in welcoming to the stage Dr. Cliff Cocks. It has undergone a massive change in my lifetime. When I started 50 years ago, it was something that was done in earnest, basically only by governments, and now you use cryptography. Every time you communicate on the internet, you make a purchase on the internet. It is basically something that you use many times every day. It's everywhere. A second speaker is, of course, probably best known to people in this room as the winner of the fields medal in, in 2022. Essentially, the highest honor in mathematics. So please welcome James Maynard. Thank you very much. There's a film Which says that every whole number can be written uniquely as a product of prime numbers, and this means that prime numbers are somehow the ATMs of rhythm tick and therefore lots of complicated problems to do with. Whole numbers can be broken down into simpler problems involving just trying them For the rest of the evening. We are all meant to relocate upstairs. This space actually has, uh, these amazing video screens. So what we've tried to do is actually have some mathematical animations that the riff a little bit on our logo and a little bit on maths, that, that may or may not have something to do with the topic of tonight. They're absolutely mind blowing and awesome, so please, please do check them out if you haven't already.
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