Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The paper “Characterization of dominated splittings for operator cocycles acting on Banach spaces” co-authored by Alex Blumenthal (Maryland) and Ian Morris has just been published in the Journal of Differential Equations. The paper gives a partial extension of a criterion of Bochi and Gourmelon for the existence of a dominated splitting of a finite-dimensional linear […]

The paper “On the nature of space fluctuations of solutions of dissipative partial differential equations” by Michele Bartuccelli has been published in the October 2019 issue of Applied Mathematics Letters.  A link to the published paper is here.  The paper proves a crest-factor theorem for the Swift-Hohenberg equation.  The “crest factor” is the ratio of […]

Jacob Brooks (DSPDEs Research Group), Gianne Derks, and Anne Skeldon (MoLSS Research Group) are in Snowbird, Utah, this week (19-23 May) for the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. Jacob is speaking in MS20 (link here) on “Fronts in inhomogeneous wave equations“.  Gianne is speaking in MS69 (link here) on “One-dimensional periodic solutions in […]

Congratulations to Alex Close for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place today (15 May). The team of external examiners consisted of Alain Brizard (Professor at St Michael’s College, USA) and Darryl Holm (Professor at Imperial College).  The chair of the viva was Dorje Brody. The title of Alex‘s thesis is “Applications of geometric […]

Sergey Zelik has been awarded the title of “Thousand Talents Plan Distinguished Professor” by the Chinese government’s Thousand Talents Program.  The award is accompanied by approximately 5 Million RMB for research expenditure. The grant runs for 3 years and Sergey will spend 6 months of each year at Lanzhou University.  He is setting up a […]

Anna Kostianko is on an extended research visit to China this spring.  She is based at Lanzhou University.  The photo left shows Anna at the beginning of one of her talks.  The photo below shows her out and about in Pekin.