Congratulations to Adam Nasim for passing his PhD confirmation examination. It was held on Friday 20 September, and the examiners were David Lloyd and Anne Skeldon. The title of Adam‘s project is “Simple spatial models of cytotoxic chemotherapy“. The project supervisors are Carina Dunlop and Gianne Derks.
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Gianne Derks was at the University of Reading on Monday-Tuesday (9-10 September) this week co-organising the 3rd Exchange Workshop of the QSP-UK Network on “Artificial intelligence and mechanistic modelling in quantitative systems pharmacology“. The attendance was 50-50 industry and academia with a profitable exchange of ideas. QSP-UK is the Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Network, funded by […]
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The paper “Invasion fronts outside the homoclinic snaking region in the planar Swift-Hohenberg equation“, by David Lloyd, has been accepted for publication in the SIAM J Applied Dynamical Systems. The paper solves an open problem on numerical bifurcation analysis of depinning fronts. The final-form preprint can be found here. The diagram on the left is […]
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The Proceedings of the LMS/EPSRC Durham Symposium on “Higher Structures in M-Theory” have now been published in Volume 67 of the journal Progress of Physics (link here). The volume is edited by Branislav Jurčo (Charles University, Prague), Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt), Urs Schreiber (Czech Academy Sci), and Martin Wolf. A link to the introduction is here.
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Alessandro Torrielli visited the Dipartimento di Fisica at the University of Calabria, in the south of Italy, from 5-7 September. He gave a talk on 5 September on “Massless scattering in lower dimensional AdS/CFT“. A link to the department and abstract is here.
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Janet Godolphin attended the 2019 meeting of the Royal Statistical Society held in Belfast during 2-5 September (link here). She gave an invited presentation in Session 5.5: Methods and Theory: Theoretical advances in experimental design. The title of her talk was “Construction of blocked factorial and fractional factorial designs“. A link to the abstract of […]
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