On Monday 11th February there was a parliamentary debate in Westminister Hall on school start times. The debate was in response to the petition School should start at 10am as teenagers are too tired, which has so far attracted over 184,000 signatures. In the debate, a paper on mathematical modelling of sleep cycles (link here) […]
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Martin Wolf is the opening speaker at the 13th South East Mathematical Physics Seminar held today (Thursday 21 February) at Kings College London. He will speak on “L-infinity algebras, the BV formalism, and classical fields“. There are 4 other speakers and a link to the programme and abstracts is here. The SE Mathematical Physics Seminar […]
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Gianne Derks and Anne Skeldon attended and gave talks at the workshop “The Dynamics of Energy, Sleep and Climate” organised by Chris Budd and Lorna Wilson. It was held today (Wednesday 20 February) at the University of Bath and sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Innovation (IMI). The workshop explored the links between the dynamical […]
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Bin Cheng and Tom Bridges visited University College London and gave talks in the Applied Mathematics Seminar series. Bin visited on Tuesday 22 January and spoke on “Analysis of nonlinear dynamics with three time scales“, and Tom visited on Tuesday 19 February and gave a talk on “Reappraisal of Whitham modulation theory“. A link to […]
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Professor Steve Schochet, from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University, visited the department this week (week of 11 February) as part of the project team on the Leverhulme-funded project on Mathematical analysis of *near resonance* in the physical world of finiteness. Bin Cheng, leader of the Leverhulme project, was host for the […]
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The paper “Wetting and drying of two-layer shallow-water flow in a moving vessel via semi-Lagrangian simulation” co-authored by Matt Turner and Tom Bridges has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids. The paper considers a novel numerical approach to solve the shallow-water resonant rectilinear sloshing problem in a rectangular vessel. The […]
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