Congratulations to Michael Foskett for passing his PhD confirmation this afternoon, Monday 29 January 2018. The examiners were Jan Gutowski and Alessandro Torrielli. The title of Michael‘s confirmation report is “A geometric mechanical approach to wavefunction factorisations in nonadiabatic dynamics“. The project is supervised by Cesare Tronci.
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The paper “q-Poincaré supersymmetry in AdS5/CFT4” co-authored by Riccardo Borsato (Stockholm University and KTH) and Alessandro Torrielli has been accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B. Abstract and final-form preprint can be found on the arXiv here.
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The paper “A coherent structure approach for parameter estimation in Lagrangian data assimilation“, co-authored by John Maclean (U North Carolina), Naratip Santitissadeekorn, and Christopher K.R.T. Jones (U North Carolina) has been published in the December 2017 issue of PhysicaD (link here). The paper shows that coherent patterns can be used to form effective data assimilation […]
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Cesare Tronci has been appointed to a Research Membership at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley for the four month programme on Hamiltonian Systems. The Research Membership provides local funding for four months and round-trip travel to San Francisco. The programme will take place from 13 August 2018 to […]
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Carina Dunlop visited Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton on Tuesday 9 January to give a seminar in the Applied Mathematics Series. Her talk was on “Mechanical models for cell and tissue culture exploring mechanotransduction“. An abstract of the talk follows: the ability of cells to sense and respond to the mechanical properties of […]
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David Lloyd is part of a team (including Martin Short (Georgia Tech) and Theodore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie University)) that has been awarded funding for a one week conference programme on “Mathematical Criminology and Security” to be held at the Banff International Research Station for mathematical innovation and discovery in Alberta Canada. The programme is to be […]
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