The paper “Adjusting higher Chern-Simons theory“, co-authored by G. Gagliardo, D. Rist, C. Saemann (all three part of Heriot-Watt, and the Maxwell Institute), and Martin Wolf, has been published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics (open access link here). A fundamental problem in formulating higher Chern–Simons theories is the construction of a consistent higher gauge […]
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XLVI Dynamics Days Europe – DDE 2026 was held in Lisbon this year. It took place from 19 to 24 July at the Rectorate of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Colégio Almada Negreiros, located in the heart of Lisbon, near the iconic Praça de Espanha. DDE 2026 continues the tradition of fostering interdisciplinary research in […]
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Polina Vytnova is visiting the Sydney Mathematics Research Institute in Australia for four weeks, supported by the SMRI International Visitor Program. Her host and co-author is Caroline Wormell (a DECRA Fellow in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney). They have been working on a couple of projects related to dimension computations of fractal […]
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Rachel Bernasconi, who won the University of Surrey’s 3-minute thesis competition, has now been selected as one of the six finalists in Vitae’s national Three-Minute Thesis competition. The finals will be aired on 1st October, and more details can be found at the website (link here) The screenshot below shows Rachel’s entry on the website.
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Stanislaw Biber was in New York City during the past weekend (30 July to 3 August) to attend and present a poster at the 2026 NYC Neuromodulation Conference, which was hosted at City College of NY. This conference is the largest international conference focused on the technology and science of brain interfaces. This series has […]
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On Friday 24th July, Tom Bridges gave a virtual talk in the seminar of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Network on “Instability Phenomena in Asymptotic Models in Fluid Dynamics“. The title of the talk was “A theory for water wave breaking in three dimensions“. The talk was based on joint work with Matt Turner, Frederic […]
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