The 2026 SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NWCS26) conference was held in Montreal during 26-29 May (website here). David Lloyd was invited to give a Plenary Lecture. The title of his talk was “Localised Multi-dimensional Patterns”, and an abstract can be found here. The chair of the plenary session was Michael Ward (UBC, Canada). […]
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In early May (9-13 May), Anne Skeldon was on Amelia Island, off the coast of Florida, for the 2026 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythm (SRBR). The Biennial Meeting is one of the world’s leading international forums for the exchange of scientific information and collaboration in all aspects of biological rhythms […]
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Ryan Jeffries has been awarded funding by the EPSRC for a Vacation Research internship in Mathematics. Ryan is an MMath student, currently completing his third year and beginning year 4 in Autumn 2026. This summer he will be working for 10 weeks with Matt Turner on “Stochastic motion of a vortex next to a wall […]
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Chalkdust magazine is “A magazine for the mathematically curious”. It is published on paper twice a year, and more frequently online. It was founded in 2015 by a group of PhD students from the mathematics department at University College London. They publish articles on mathematics research written for a general audience. Anne Skeldon was interviewed […]
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Alessandro Torrielli visited Durham University on Thursday 21st May to attend and speak at a workshop on “Integrability in (Quantum) Field Theory” (workshop website here). The work shop is part of the “Classical and Quantum Integrability Network”. Alessandro gave an introductory pre-conference talk on “Integrability for AdS3 strings” (abstract at the website), as well as […]
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Anne Skeldon visited the University of Oxford in the beginning of April (30 March to 1 April) to attend the Oxford Glymphatic and Brain Clearance Symposium, held at Keble College (website here). It was a very popular event on a hot topic in the field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A hallmark of AD is the […]
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