The review article “Higher gauge theory“, co-authored by L. Borsten (Hertfordshire), M.J. Farahani (Heriot-Watt), B. Jurčo (Charles University, Prague), H. Kim (Heriot-Watt), J. Nárožný (Charles University, Prague), D. Rist (Heriot-Watt), C. Saemann (Heriot-Watt), and Martin Wolf, has just been published in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics. A link to the arXiv preprint is here, a […]
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The paper “Boundary Bethe ansatz in massless AdS3“, co-authored by Daniele Bielli (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Vasileios Moustakis, and Alessandro Torrielli, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Daniele is a former PhD student at Surrey, and Vasileios is a current PhD student at Surrey. In the paper, they […]
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Dorje Brody has been invited to give a public lecture, as part of the BRIGHTHINK series, to be held on Wednesday 22 January in the Nightingale Room of the Grand Central Pub, in the city of Brighton in East Sussex (map here). The title of the talk is “Quantum Mind: how quantum physics could help […]
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Paul Ryan, currently a Postdoc at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), at the University of Hamburg, has been awarded an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for 3 years, beginning September 2025. He will be hosted by the Quantum Group, and working with Alessandro Torrielli and Andrea Prinsloo. Paul received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of […]
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The School of Mathematics, Physics, and Space had their award ceremony last week (Wednesday 4 December). At the ceremony it was announced that Jessica Furber was awarded School PhD student of the year. Jessica is in her final year of PhD studies; her project is “How do badgers interact with their environment?“, with co-supervisors Gianni […]
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Camilla Nobili is visiting Politecnico di Bari, on the southeast coast of Italy this week (4-6 December). Her host for the visit is Prof Giuseppe Maria Coclite. On Friday 6 December she is giving a seminar on “From PDEs to Scaling Laws: Quantitative Analysis on Turbulent Convection“. The photo below shows Camilla during her talk […]
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