Dan Hill has been selected as one of the finalists for the 2021 IMA Lighthill-Thwaites Prize. The prize is awarded biannually to an outstanding PhD student nearing completion, and is based on a submitted piece of work that describes an aspect of the candidate’s original research in any area of the application of mathematics and […]
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Sergey Zelik is giving a virtual seminar today (Friday 11 December) in the Scientific seminar of the “Dynamical systems and applications” Laboratory, at the Higher School of Economics in Nizhy Novgorod, which is about 400km east of Moscow. The title of his talk is “Inertial manifolds and finite dimensional reduction for dissipative PDEs“. A link […]
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The paper “A continuously perturbed Dirichlet energy with area-preserving stationary points that ‘buckle’ and occur in equal-energy pairs“, co-authored by Jon Bevan and Jonathan Deane, has been accepted for publication in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (a link to the journal webpage is here). The paper exhibits a family of parameter-dependent convex functionals with infinitely […]
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Alessandro Torrielli gave a talk at IIT Roorkee in India on Wednesday 25 November, in their Virtual Meeting on Gravity, Strings, and Fields series. The title of his talk was “Massless particles in two-dimensional integrable scattering“. A link to the programme is here and a link to the main page is here. The photo below […]
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The paper “Homann stagnation-point flow impinging on a biaxially stretching surface“, coauthored by Matt Turner and Patrick Weidman (University of Colorado), has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids. The paper identifies exact solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations when a stretching surface is placed below a stagnation point flow. Four branches of […]
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Congratulations to Jacob Brooks for passing his PhD viva on Thursday 26 November! Jacob’s thesis is entitled “Inhomogeneous semi-linear wave equations“. The External Examiner was Prof Dr Peter van Heijster of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, and the Internal was Tom Bridges. The viva was chaired by Jonathan Deane. The project was […]
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