Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Ian Morris arrived in Santiago Chile this week for a two-week research visit to the Mathematics Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The visit runs from 3 to 14 February and his host is Dr Jairo Bochi. They are working on the dynamical and statistical properties of measures on self-affine fractals. After the […]

The paper “A geometric diffuse-interface method for droplet spreading“, co-authored by Darryl Holm (Imperial College), Lennon Ó Náraigh (University College Dublin) and Cesare Tronci, has been published in the Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London. The paper exploits the theory of geometric gradient flows to introduce an alternative regularization of the thin-film equation […]

Congratulations to Jonah Varney for passing his PhD confirmation examination. It was held today, Thursday 30 January, and the examiners were Jon Bevan and James Grant. The title of Jonah’s project is “Marginal stability rates for the joint spectral radius“, and his project supervisor is Ian Morris.

The paper “The future is not always open“, co-authored by James Grant, Michael Kunzinger (Vienna), Clemens Sämann (Vienna), and Roland Steinbauer (Vienna), has been published in Letters in Mathematical Physics. The paper demonstrates the breakdown of several fundamentals of Lorentzian causality theory in low regularity. A link to the published version is here. The diagram […]

Congratulations to Imran Usmani for passing his PhD confirmation examination. It was held on Wednesday 22 January, and the examiners were Vikki Revell (Surrey Sleep Research Centre) and Gianne Derks. The title of Imran’s project is “A mathematical modelling approach to the prediction of circadian phase“. The project supervisors are Anne Skeldon and Derk-Jan Dijk […]

Martin Wolf is visiting the Mathematics Department at Heriot-Watt University this week and giving a talk in the Edinburgh Mathematics Physics Seminar on Wednesday 22 January. The title is “Homotopy algebras and scattering amplitudes“. Abstract (click on title) and further information can be found here.