Somerville’s Ada Lovelace Bicentenary: celebrating women in computer science

The event celebrates the life of a mathematician and scientific visionary who was tutored and mentored by Mary Somerville as well as women in science more generally. The celebration is open to alumni and students from across the university as well as to current students and Fellows of the College, and to secondary school students and teachers. There will also be a limited allocation for members of the general public. Speakers will include: Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge; Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester; Ursula Martin CBE, University of Oxford; James Essinger, biographer of Ada Lovelace; Jennifer Widom, Stanford University.