Ayoub Mansar, a PhD student in Mathematics at École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay is visiting the Fundamental Mathematics Group (Group B) this week (8 February to 16 February). Ayoub is a third-year PhD student supervised at ENS by Prof Frédéric Dias. His PhD project is on the theory and numerical simulation of breaking water waves and is supported by the ERC grant HIGHWAVE (link here). His hosts at Surrey are Tom Bridges and Matt Turner. During his visit Ayoub gave a talk on 14 February on “Propagation and breaking of short crested Stokes waves”. The photo shows Ayoub with his hosts.