As the world slowly begins to return to \u201cnormality\u201d, how long can pupils safely spend in a classroom if one person is infected? Or how long can patients safely wait in a doctors\u2019 waiting room? Is a supermarket safe?<\/p>\n
Mathematical models can give us some answers by predicting the rate of spread of viruses in an indoor space. Ian Griffiths<\/strong>, Professor of Industrial Mathematics,\u00a0develops models that determine the quantity of SARS-CoV-2 in a room. Based on these models, scientists can decide whether a room\u00a0needs more or less ventilation and if people in it should talk less.<\/p>\n During his captivating speech titled “How can mathematics help us reopen the world?”<\/strong><\/em>, Griffiths will also mention some innovative inventions of air purifiers that could take us back to normality faster.<\/p>\n The discussion is realized in collaboration with\u00a0the Mediterranean Science Festival <\/strong>and\u00a0will be moderated by Dr. Katerina Kaouri<\/strong> (Cardiff University).<\/p>\n Ian Griffiths is a Professor of Industrial Mathematics and a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. His research includes: finding new strategies to provide clean water to the developed and developing world; improving the performance of filters in Dyson vacuum cleaners and air-purifiers; finding how to make star-shaped Nestl\u00e9 Cheerios; fabricating glass for bendable smartphones; and providing deployment strategies for coronavirus air-purifiers.<\/em><\/p>\n Speech title:<\/i><\/b>\u00a0How can mathematics help us reopen the world?<\/em>\u00a0||\u00a0<\/i>Date & time:\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Monday<\/i>\u00a029, March, 11.00-11.50<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the world slowly begins to return to \u201cnormality\u201d, how long can pupils safely spend in a classroom if one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26136"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26610,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions\/26610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.athens-science-festival.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}