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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Cesare Tronci visited Giovanni Manfredi at the Strasbourg Institute of Material Physics and Chemistry (IPCMS), which is associated with the Université de Strasbourg. Paul Bergold (former Postdoc at Surrey, now at Gdansk) joined them at IPCMS. They worked together during 26-27 May on the mixed quantum-classical dynamics of spin-orbit coupling. The visit was funded by Cesare’s […]
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Estefania Loayza-Romero, a Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde, visited the School on Wednesday 7th May. Her research focuses on computational PDE-constrained optimisation, with particular interest in non-smooth optimisation algorithms and their applications, data assimilation, shape optimisation, and optimisation on manifolds. She gave a talk in the afternoon on “A Riemannian View on […]
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Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova, Professor of Mathematics, Vice President, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Impact) at the University of Exeter, visited the School on Friday 9th May. Her visit was hosted by the Interface Mathematics Group. Her research addresses open questions in Health and Life Sciences by means of mathematical modelling and analysis including dynamical systems and […]
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Rachel Bernasconi and Anne Skeldon attended the 2025 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, held in Denver Colorado, last week (11-15 May). Rachel gave a talk in Minisymposium CP28 (Neuroscience II) with title “The shape of sleep: How Timescale Separation Reveals Geometric Structure in a Mathematical Model of the Sleep/wake Cycle” (link to abstract […]
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