Leon Danon's guest appearances

Leon Danon

Maths on the Move

Jack Thorne

Simon Singh

Ed Hill

Lewis Carroll

Leonard Euler

Holly Krieger

Nalini Joshi

Manjul Bhargava

Artur Avila

John Milnor

Brendan Mackay

Akshay Venkatesh

Cheryl Praeger

Martin Hairer

Julia Gog

OwlTail

Ellen Brooks

On the mathematical front line is a special series of the Plus podcast featuring epidemiologists whose efforts have been crucial in the fight against the pandemic. They are the people who make sense of the data to estimate things like the R number, and who make the mathematical models that inform (and sometimes do not inform) government policy. In this episode we talk to Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon, both from the University of Bristol. The are members of the JUNIPER consortium (https://maths.org/juniper/) of modelling groups from across the UK whose research and insights feed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of which advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ellen and Leon are also a couple, who have stuck it out through the lockdowns not just in terms of living arrangements and child care, but also in terms of work. And if you don't live with a partner but instead have benefited from the support bubbles that allowed you to team up with another household, then you have Ellen and Leon to thank for that: as we find out in the podcast, it was their work on household bubbling which showed that these support bubbles were safe. The podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER (https://maths.org/juniper/), the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER  comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster,  who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing questions about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here: https://plus.maths.org/content/juniper

On the mathematical front line is a special series of the Plus podcast featuring epidemiologists whose efforts have been crucial in the fight against the pandemic. They are the people who make sense of the data to estimate things like the R number, and who make the mathematical models that inform (and sometimes do not inform) government policy. In this episode we talk to Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon, both from the University of Bristol. The are members of the JUNIPER consortium (<a href="https://maths.org/juniper/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://maths.org/juniper/</a>) of modelling groups from across the UK whose research and insights feed into the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (otherwise known as SPI-M) and SAGE, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, both of which advise the UK government on the scientific aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ellen and Leon are also a couple, who have stuck it out through the lockdowns not just in terms of living arrangements and child care, but also in terms of work. And if you don't live with a partner but instead have benefited from the support bubbles that allowed you to team up with another household, then you have Ellen and Leon to thank for that: as we find out in the podcast, it was their work on household bubbling which showed that these support bubbles were safe. The podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER (<a href="https://maths.org/juniper/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://maths.org/juniper/</a>), the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing questions about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here: <a href="https://plus.maths.org/content/juniper" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://plus.maths.org/content/juniper</a>

On the mathematical frontline: Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon