Dr Robert Hunt: public understanding of mathematics; causality in differential equations; theoretical fluid dynamics, with particular reference to local and global instabilities.

Professor Frank Kelly: Professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the University of Cambridge. Random processes, networks and optimization, the mathematics of very large-scale systems, such as telecommunication or transport networks.

Professor Peter Landshoff: Until September 2004 Professor of Mathematical Physics in the University and Chair the School of the Physical Sciences. Interests include Millennium Mathematics Project, Cambridge eScience Centre, the National Institute for Environmental eScience, the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute, and the Newton Institute.

Professor Simon Tavaré: the interface between probability, statistics and molecular biology.

Mr Julian Holstein: algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, category theory and in particular their interplay and intersection.