2009 Annual Lecture by Ian Stewart - After Darwin's Watch

Professor Ian Stewart, FRS gave the Society's 2009 Sixth Annual Lecture After Darwin's Watch on Monday, 23rd March 2009 at ThinkTank.

 Professor Michael Overduin, Honorary Secretary, Lunar Society and Professor Stuart Palmer, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick co-chair. The event was sponsored by the University of Warwick and Ebury Publishing.

Ian Stewart often appears on radio and TV, and gave the Royal Institution 1997 Christmas Lectures. He is aptly qualified to give this Lecture in the 200th anniversary year of Charles Darwin's birth, having written widely on the subject of evolution, including co-authoring the Science of Discworld series with Lunarman Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett, the last of which was called . . . Darwin's Watch.

A prolific author for academic and the lay-reader as well as a world-renown mathematician, Ian Stewart is a lucid speaker and writer on mathematics for all audiences. His research is in dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, pattern formation and biomathematics.

The Society is grateful for the support of Think Tank, the University of Warwick and Ebury Publishing.