Congratulations to Fabio Marino for passing the Milano-Bicocca component of his PhD viva today (Monday 27 January)! The subject of Fabio’s thesis is “Probing Bad Theories With The Dualisation Algorithm“. Fabio‘s supervisors are Sara Pasquetti for the Milano-Bicocca part and Alessandro Torrielli for the Surrey part. The examination committee consisted of Diego Rodriguez-Gomez (Oviedo), Itamar Yaakov […]
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Martin Wolf is visiting the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester today (Monday 27 January), to give a talk in the Manchester Geometry Seminar series (link here). The seminar title is “Homotopy algebras and field theories“. It is a pedagogical introduction to homotopy algebras and their applications in physical theories. The talk reviews […]
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The paper “Hausdorff dimension of the Apollonian gasket“, co-authored by Polina Vytnova and Caroline Wormell (University of Sydney) has been published in Inventiones Mathematicae (open access link here). In the paper, they develop an efficient method for solving the open problem of Hausdorff dimension, which allows them to compute the dimension of the gasket to […]
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This week (20-22 January) Ian Roulstone is a member of the adjudication panel for the NERC programme that funds training courses for environmental scientists (link here). The programme provides grants of the order of £60k-£100k to fund Training Short Courses in NERC directed priority areas (future marine research infrastructure and digital skills). The image below […]
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Imran Nasim attended and spoke at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, held at the Vancouver Convention Center, from Tuesday 10 December through Sunday 15 December. Imran‘s presentation was on “Fine-Tuned MLP-Mixer Foundation Models as Data-Driven Numerical Surrogates?”. He is an AI Engineer (WatsonX) at IBM UK (link here) and Visiting Lecturer […]
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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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