Models. They are dictating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can it be?

In our first online only Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture Robin Thompson, Research Fellow in Mathematical Epidemiology in Oxford and expert on the modelling of infectious diseases such as Covid-19, explains all.

Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.