Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Congratulations to Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn for passing her PhD confirmation examination today (Monday 11 February)!  The examiners were Gianne Derks and Anne Skeldon. The title of Josephine’s project is “Models for cellular force generation and the cell-substrate interface” and the project is supervised by Carina Dunlop.

Congratulations to Rebecca Atkinson for passing her PhD confirmation examination today (Wednesday 6 February)!  The examiners were Alex Hagen-Zanker  (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Surrey) and  Naratip Santitissadeekorn. The title of Rebecca’s project is “Localisation and Optimal Mitigation of Sampling Error in Ensemble Data Assimilation” and the project is supervised by Sue Hughes (Civil and Environmental […]

Carina Dunlop gave a talk today (Thursday 31 January) in the Applied Mathematics Seminar series at the University of Birmingham on “Mechanical models for cellular mechanotransduction“.  Carina talked about the ability of cells to sense and respond to the mechanical properties of their environments which is fundamental to cellular behaviour, with stiffness found to be […]

Congratulations to Marcel Dengler for passing his PhD confirmation examination today (Thursday 31 January)!  The examiners were Bin Cheng and Stephen Gourley. The title of Marcel’s project is “New regularity methods for polyconvex functionals” and the project is supervised by Jon Bevan with second supervisor James Grant.

The paper “On equality of Hausdorff and affinity dimensions, via self-affine measures on positive subsystems” co-authored by Ian Morris and Pablo Shmerkin (Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina) has been published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. In the paper they show that the affinity dimension of a planar self-affine set is equal to […]

The paper “An integro-differential equation with variable delay arising in machine tool vibration” co-authored by Feng-Bin Wang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan), Stephen Gourley, and Yanyu Xiao (University of Cincinnati), has been published in the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics. The paper rigorously derives and analyzes an integro-differential equation as a model for the possible onset […]