Congratulations to Dan Hill for passing his PhD viva on Thursday 10 June! Dan’s thesis is entitled “Existence of small amplitude localised patterns on the surface of a ferrofluid“. The External Examiner was Prof Björn Sandstede of Brown University (Providence) and the Internal was Tom Bridges. The project was supervised by Dave Lloyd and Matt […]
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This week (7-9 June) the SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Conference is being hosted by the University of Reading and broadcast virtually via zoom. Naratip Santitissadeekorn is the keynote speaker on Tuesday 8th June, speaking on “Uncertainty quantification for time-series of count data and influence network reconstruction“. Stephen Falconer is giving a contributed talk, on “Forecasting GP […]
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Ian Roulstone‘s book “Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather“, co-authored with John Norbury (Oxford University), has been published in Chinese, by China Machine Press. The cover of the Chinese edition is shown left, and a copy can be ordered from the publisher here. The original English language version was published […]
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This week (23-38 May) is the 2021 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, DS21, formally know as “Snowbird” (link here). It is virtual, but capturing the planned location of Portland, Oregon (including a virtual beach). The conference has over 1250 registered participants, 219 minisymposia, 28 contributed presentation sessions and 9 plenary invited presentations. The […]
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Anne Skeldon is giving an invited talk on Friday 21 May at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR). The meeting is being held virtually and runs from Wednesday to Friday (link to the programme is here). The title of Anne’s talk is “Light, sleep and circadian rhythms: Using […]
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Congratulations to Nick Burgess for passing his PhD viva today (Wednesday 18 May)! Nick’s thesis is entitled “Symmetry and Modulation: from relative periodic orbits to multi-phase patterns“. The External Examiner was Dr Konstantin Blyuss (Sussex) and the Internal Examiner was David Lloyd. The project was supervised by Tom Bridges with second supervisor Ian Roulstone. The […]
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