Cesare Tronci is in France this week (29-31 October) for the 2025 Geometric Science of Information conference, held in Saint-Malo. St-Malo is a historic port city in Brittany, located on the northwest coast of France. Cesare gave a talk in the session Geometric Methods in Thermodynamics on “Entropy functionals and equilibrium states in mixed quantum-classical […]
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Congratulations to Dominic Stone for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place on Wednesday 29 October. Dominic‘s thesis was on lower bounds of the attractor dimension for 2D Navier–Stokes equations (preprint here), as well as regularity and existence for the 3D Navier-Stokes-Brinkman-Forchheimer equaion (published paper here). His examiners were James Robinson (Warwick) and Camilla Nobili, with […]
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On Wednesday 15 October, part II of the Quantum Sciences Research Retreat was hosted by the School of Mathematics and Physics and organised by Andrea Rocco and Alessandro Torrielli. (Blog post of part I here.) The retreat got together members of the Quantum Sciences Group to speak about their latest research, and to invite others […]
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Tom Bridges visited the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Exeter last week (20-24 October). His host for the visit was Hamid Alemi Ardakani (former PhD student and Postdoc at Surrey, now Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Exeter) The visit involved research interaction and meeting with members of the department. On the […]
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Congratulations to Anusha Amber Catherine Corlett Schutz for passing her PhD Confirmation viva! It was held on Wednesday 22 October, and her examiners were Werner Bauer and Bin Cheng. The title of her report is “Breaking water waves in a finite depth fluid”. Her project is funded by a Breaking Barriers Scholarship awarded by the […]
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The XIX Conference of the Julian Aleksandrowicz Polish Magnesium Society was held 16-18 October at Potocki Palace (near Poznań, Poland). The theme was “Magnesium and other bioelements in medical, chemical, and natural sciences“. Stanislaw Biber was an invited speaker, and his talk “Dynamics of elements in soil — a mathematical approach at capturing the changes […]
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