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Limerick: What are the Odds?, Nadia Baker NRICH

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Outreach lecture by Dr Nadia Baker, Cambridge. Is it worth playing the lottery? How can you increase your chances of winning a game? If it sounds too good to be true, what haven’t you been told? Can you spot a scam before you fall for it? Nadia Baker from the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge will reveal some of the hidden mathematics in our lives, helping to make sense of the world in situations involving risk, probability, chance and uncertainty.

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  • Limerick
  • Munster
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When Oct 15, 2009
Where MACSI, University of Limerick
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What are the Odds?

Outreach lecture by Dr Nadia Baker, Cambridge

Is it worth playing the lottery? How can you increase your chances of winning a game? If it sounds too good to be true, what haven’t you been told? Can you spot a scam before you fall for it?

Nadia Baker from the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge will reveal some of the hidden mathematics in our lives, helping to make sense of the world in situations involving risk, probability, chance and uncertainty.

Maths week activity, University of Limerick

Date: Thursday 15th October

Starts: 10.30 am

Ends: 11.30 am

Venue: University Concert Hall

            University of Limerick

Admission Free

This lecture is suitable for secondary school students aged between 15 and 18.

Space is limited, booking is essential.

Further information about this lecture may be obtained from Jean Charpin (061-233725), Martina O’Sullivan (061

202293) Peg Hanrahan (061-213013), Niamh Dooley (061202207) or email jean.charpin@ul.ie.

Please note no food or drinks are allowed in the University Concert Hall.


Nadia Baker


Australian, Nadia Baker studied Maths, Computer Science and Japanese at Adelaide University and has just completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge. While a student, she then spent time working at the Investigator Science and Technology Centre in Adelaide, where she realised her true passion for making Science and Maths fun, relevant and interesting.Then Nadia joined the ‘Shell Questacon Science Circus’ and traveled to rural, regional, and remote areas of Australia bringing Science to life through explosive demonstrations, giant bubbles, slime, liquid nitrogen and fire! She has been a secondary school teacher in Australia, Malawi, Nepal and England. Since 2007 she has been with the Millennium Mathematics Project, based at Cambridge University as the Enigma Schools Project Officer. Combining her Maths, Science Communication and teaching experiences, Nadia travels to all parts of the UK and beyond, using codes and code breaking as a way of demonstrating the exciting aspects and relevance of Maths.

When she isn’t out and about cracking codes and sharing her enthusiasm for Maths, Nadia spends time socialising, going to the gym, and traveling to various music festivals and remote parts of the world.

Home page: http://mmp.maths.org/projects/enigma.html

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