Kristian Kristiansen of the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen is visiting the department from 12-21 December.  His host is Claudia Wulff.  He gave a talk in the Geometric Mechanics Seminar on Wednesday 12th December on “Iterative methods for computing canards“.  Claudia and Kristian are working on a project to prove exponential asymptotic estimates of slow manifolds in analytic systems.  A preprint is available here .