Vkadunur Rubtsov visited the department on Friday 8 November from the Universite d’Angers in France.  His visit was hosted by Ian Roulstone, and during his visit he interacted with members of the FSG and FMM groups, looking at transfer of ideas between mathematical physics and fluid mechanics.  He gave a talk in the Fluid Mechanics and Meteorology seminar on “Contact and symplectic geometry of Monge-Ampere equations“.