Congratulations to Elliott Farrall for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place on Monday 22 September. The title of Elliott’s thesis is “Conditions for the Non-Negativity of Excess Functionals in Constrained Variational Problems“. The external examiner was Prof Martin Kružík (Czech Academy of Sciences), and the internal examiner was James Grant. Elliott’s primary supervisor was Jon Bevan and second supervisor […]
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Anne Skeldon was in Lübeck Germany at the end of August (24-28 August) for the 2025 Congress of the European Biological Rhythms Society (link here). She gave a talk in a special session on “Post-translational regulations in clock and sleep” which was jointly organised by the Japanese Society of Chronobiology (JSC) and EBRS as part […]
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Next week (21-26 September) Dorje Brody will be participating in the ESI programme on “Simplicity behind Absurdity: The Power of Quantum Thinking” (link here). His role is as a contributor for the “Background Papers”. ESI is physically located in Frankfurt, Germany, but the event will likely be held virtually. Dorje is one of two scholars […]
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Anne Skeldon was in Barcelona, Spain, in July (6-11 July) to attend and present a poster at the Gordon Research Centre Conference on “Circadian Clock Dynamics and Physiology Across Biological Scales” (conference website here). The Gordon Research Centre conferences have a distinct structure where a limited number of scientists (typically less than 200) are invited […]
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The paper “Fine-tuning for Extreme Event Prediction: Are Ensemble Methods All You Need?“, co-authored by Imran Nasim (IBM UK and Maths@Surrey) and Joao Lucas de Sousa Almeida (IBM Research, Brazil), was accepted for presentation at KDD 2025, the world’s premier conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It was held this year in Toronto, Canada, […]
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In July, Anne Skeldon was awarded two pump-priming grants by the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OHBRC). One was funded by the Better Sleep theme and is for £12k. The project title is “Personalised quantitative guidance for sleep therapies by combining data with mathematical models: translating mathematical models to clinical practice”. The second award was […]
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