The paper “The failure of the Ehlers–Kundt conjecture in the impulsive case“, co-authored by M.L. Frauenberger, J.D.E. Grant & R. Steinbauer, has been published in the journal “General Relativity and Gravitation”. The Ehlers and Kundt conjecture, postulated in 1962, claimed that plane waves are the only class of complete Ricci-flat pp-waves. The paper summarises completeness […]
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The workshop “Preparing for the New Space Age: Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Health While Living and Working in Space”, was held at the University of Surrey in July (22nd-23rd) (workshop website here). It was organised by Professors Simon Archer, Steven Lockley, and Derk-Jan Dijk, all three from the Surrey Sleep Research Centre. Anne Skeldon gave […]
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Martin Wolf is visiting the Mathematisches Institut at Georg-August Geottingen University, located in North Germany between Frankfurt and Hamburg, this week (28-30 October). His host for the visit is Dr Simon Fischer. He is giving two talks during the visit. On Thurday 29th he is giving the Mathematics Colloquium. The title is “From Chern-Simons to […]
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Rachel Bernasconi was in Chicago last week (12-14 October) for the NITMB Scientific Focus Workshop: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience – Dynamics in Neuroscience (workshop website here). It was held at the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, It has a standalone venue but is closely associated with Northwestern University and the University […]
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Episode 1 of the PGR Seminar Series, where PGRs speak to PGRs in the School about their research, was held last Wednesday, 14 October. Esha Joshi is the principal organiser. The first speakers were: Esha Joshi (Maths): Model-informed Design of Rational Dosing Strategies Using Mechanistic Tumour Growth Modelling (first photo below)Marc Russo (Physics): Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations […]
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Next week, on 15-16 October, a Commemorative Symposium Honoring Professor Erik Bollt’s Contributions to Complex Systems Science (web link here), will be held at Clarkson University in New York State. Naratip Santitissadeekorn is one of the invited speakers. His talk will be virtual and it will be on “Influence network reconstruction from discrete time-series of […]
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