Matt Turner has been awarded a “Collaboration with Developing Countries” travel grant by the London Mathematical Society to fund a 10 day visit for Dr Sara Chikhi to visit the University of Surrey. Dr Chikhi’s home institurion is the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algeria. The LMS scheme promotes the collaboration of […]
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Congratulations to Johannes Benthaus for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place on Monday 22 June. Johannes’ thesis was on “A Quantitative Analysis of Scalar Decay in Time-Dependent Shear Flows.” His examiners were Michele Coti Zelati (Imperial) and Bin Cheng. Johannes‘ principal supervisor was Camilla Nobili with second supervisor Jon Bevan. The screenshot below is from Johannes‘ most recent […]
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The paper “Global bifurcation of localised 2D patterns emerging from spatial heterogeneity“, co-authored by Dan Hill (Oxford), Dave Lloyd, and Matt Turner, has been accepted for publication in Nonlinearity. The paper presents a general approach to prove the existence, both locally and globally in amplitude, of fully localised multi-dimensional patterns in partial differential equations containing […]
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The University of Surrey’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a premier competition challenging doctoral students to condense their complex research into an engaging, non-specialist 3-minute presentation using only one static slide. The competition is open to all Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) across all faculties who have passed their confirmation milestone. This year’s winner was Rachel Bernasconi, […]
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The workshop “Geometry Space Surrey” was held 8-10 June hosted by the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and co-organised with Maths@Surrey. The Principal Organiser was Arthur Limoge, a symplectic geometer currently a Postdoc in the SSC. A report on the workshop is available here. The workshop focused on applications of symplectic geometry to astrodynamics. Indeed, symplectic […]
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In the beginning of June (1-5 June), Camilla Nobili was in Lyon, France, for RBC2026: 10th International Conference on Rayleigh-Benard Turbulence (conference website here), at which she was a plenary speaker. RBC is a major series of conferences, held every 2-3 years, and attracting 100-200 participants. The title of her talk was “Heat Transport Scaling […]
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