Congratulations to Euan Littlejohns for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place yesterday (20 November) and the photo left shows Euan at the post-viva celebration. The external examiner was Dr Rosemary Dyson (Birmingham) and the internal examiner was Matt Turner. The title of Euan‘s thesis is “Continuum elasticity models for tissue growth and mechanotransduction”, […]
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Paul Skerritt has been awarded a £1.5k grant by the London Mathematical Society to organise year 4 of the UK Applied Geometric Mechanics Network. The AGM Network links Geometric Mechanics groups at City University, Imperial College, and the University of Surrey. It is planned to organise three workshops in 2019 with location and theme […]
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The paper “Impinging Howarth stagnation-point flows” co-authored by Matt Turner and Patrick Weidman (Univ of Colorado at Boulder) has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids. The paper presents new exact similarity solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations consisting of two impinging Howarth stagnation point flows. Numerical solutions are given to the […]
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Faenia Vaia, from the Mathematics Department at Università Roma III, is visiting the Department at Surrey as well as the Mathematics Department at Imperial till 10 November. Her host at Surrey is Michele Bartuccelli. She will give a talk in the Dynamical Systems and PDEs Seminar series on Wednesday 7th November. Her talk will be […]
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The paper “Ergodic properties of matrix equilibrium states“, sole authored by Ian Morris, has just been published in the journal Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. A link to the abstract and published paper is here. The arXiv version can be found here.
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The paper “Wall stress enhanced exocytosis of extracellular vesicles as a possible mechanism of left-right symmetry-breaking in vertebrate development“, co-authored by Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn, David J. Smith (Birmingham), Susana S. Lopes (Nova University of Lisbon), Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson (Birmingham) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The in press accepted version is […]
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