A talk followed by discussion session will be held by NEMIG co-founder Christopher Spargo.

The talk will briefly outline Heaviside’s life from childhood until his death, his friendships, relations and recognitions. The talk will then proceed to discuss some of his major achievements such as the reformulation of Maxwell’s equations into today’s known form, the problem of Victorian telegraphy and Heaviside’s solution due to the development of his distributed transmission line model through to some little known aspects of his work but which have major impact. The talk will conclude with an introduction to the Heaviside Memorial Project of which the speaker is the founder and project director. Questions and discussion amongst the group afterwards are most welcome.