The article “Information overload: smartphones are exposing children to an avalanche of irrelevance“, authored by Dorje Brody, has been published in The Conversation on Friday 19 June (link here). The article focuses on a yet unnoticed impact of smartphone usage: information overload. The upshot is that it is important to keep the level of noise […]
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A team of five delegates from the University of Surrey’s School of Mathematics and Physics attended the 2025 BMC-BAMC meeting at the University of Exeter this week (23-26 June). British Mathematical Colloquium (BMC) and British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) are the largest annual mathematics events in the UK in pure and applied mathematics. Every 5 […]
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Dibakar Roychowdhury is visiting the School this week (16-20 June) for research interaction and to give a talk to the Quantum Group. His host for the visit is Alessandro Torrielli, and his talk (on Tuesday 17th) was on “Timelike Entanglement — A top down perspective” and it was based on arXiv:2505:20388. His visit is partially […]
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The “Three Minute Thesis” (3MT) is a competition established by the University of Queensland in 2008 that has since spread to more than 600 universities across the world. PhD students are challenged to condense their research into a talk of three minutes or less that is engaging, inspiring and entertaining for a non-specialist audience. The […]
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Matt Turner visited the University of Exeter on Friday 13 June for the one-day conference on “New Directions in Mathematical Modelling of Ocean Wave Energy“. Matt gave an invited talk on “Wave breaking due to a sharp-crested superharmonic instability“. The abstract can be found on the conference website (link here). Tom Bridges also attended as […]
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Werner Bauer attended the “Use case Hackathon“, Monday to Wednesday, 12-14 May 2025, held at Dartington Hall, in Totnes, Devon. It was organised by CCP-DCM, a “Collaborative Computational Community” centred around the FEniCS and Firedrake finite element systems. FEniCS and Firedrake are world-leading software frameworks for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). As […]
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