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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The 24th Southeast Mathematical Physics Conference took place at Surrey on Monday 8th September, organised by Andrea Prinsloo and Alessandro Torrielli. The conference website is here. The SEMPS network includes mathematical physics groups from City University London, Kings College London (KCL), Kent, Cambridge, Southampton (Soton), Essex, Hertfordshire, and Surrey, and the network website is here. […]
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The paper “How fake news can turn against its spreader“, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Tomooki Yuasa (Tokyo Metropolitan University), was published last week (5 September) in PLOS One. It is open acccess (link here). The paper argues that when there are two information sources, one genuine and one containing disinformation, the effect of disinformation […]
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