Congratulations to Giacomo Acciarini for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place on Thursday 3rd July. The title of Giacomo’s thesis is “Space Trajectory Design in Uncertain Environments”. The external examiner was Prof Jay McMahon (University of Colorado, Boulder), and the internal examiner was Werner Bauer. Gicomo’s supervisors were Nicola Baresi (Surrey Space Centre) and David Lloyd at Surrey, and Dario Izzo […]
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Imran Nasim (IBM, Surrey) attended the 2025 “International Conference on Scientific Computing and Machine Learning”, held in Kyoto, Japan, March 3-7 (conference website here). Imran presented a poster on “Towards a Diffusion-Based Virtual Subject Generator“, with co-author Adam Nasim (Merck, Surrey), and a poster on “Fine-Tuning MLP-Mixer Architectures For Extreme Weather Event Prediction“, with co-author […]
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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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