Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Masanori Hanada is giving two talks this week on the topic of “Confinement/deconfinement transition in the D0-brane matrix model — A signature of M-theory?” The talks are based on a paper of the same title uploaded to the arXiv on 4 October 2021 (link here). The screenshot below shows the top of the front page […]

Dorje Brody is an invited participant at the 2021 Science Foo Camp for three days (22-24 October). Science Foo Camp (wikipedia entry here) is an interdisciplinary scientific conference organised by O’Reilly Media, Google Inc, and the Nature Publishing Group. The conference is via invitation only, with invitees identified by Google as leading researchers in various […]

Anne Skeldon visited the School of Mathematics at the University of Exeter today (Tuesday 12 October) and gave a talk on “Dynamics of the sleep-wake cycle: from circle maps to influencing policy“. A link to the seminar webpage is here. In the talk, Anne gave an introduction to the non-smooth coupled oscillator systems that form […]

The paper “Higher-order uncertainty bounds for mixed states“, co-authored by Alex Belfield and Dorje Brody, has been published this week in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical Theory. The paper is published gold open access and is available here. The image below shows the header of the title page.

Masanori Hanada is giving a virtual talk tomorrow (12 October) in the Seminar series at the Crete Center For Theoretical Physics. The title is “Bulk geometry in gauge/gravity duality and color degrees of freedom“. A link to the seminar page with abstract is here. The talk is based on the paper of the same title […]

Professor Vladimir Rubtsov, from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Angers, is visiting the Department this week (4-7 October), for research interaction in the areas of Monge-Ampère equations, contact and symplectic geometry. His hosts are Ian Roulstone and Martin Wolf. On Tuesday he is giving an FSG Seminar on “Quantization of Monodromy data […]