Dan Hill is giving a virtual seminar via zoom to the Applied Analysis Group at the University of Bremen (link here), today 5th May. The title is “Magnetic Mountains — Investigating the existence of localised axisymmetric patterns on the surface of a ferrofluid“. Dan’s PhD project is supervised by Dave Lloyd and Matt Turner. Abstract: […]
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David Lloyd is leading up a range of activity devoted to data analysis and modelling of Covid-19: (1) Steve Falconer (PhD student working with Dave and Naratip Santitissadeekorn) is taking time out from his PhD to help the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC), with their weekly reporting of communicable and […]
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The London Mathematical Society has awarded a grant to Sergey Zelik, to support the undergraduate summer research project of Benjamin Galbally. The title of the project is “Convergence of lattice sums and Madelung constants“. The project runs for 8 weeks and is scheduled to start on 3rd August. A definition of the Madelung constant can […]
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Cesare Tronci and an international team consisting of Denys Bondar (Physics, Tulane) Francois Gay-Balmaz (Fluid Dynamics, Paris), Irene Burghardt (Chemistry, Frankfurt), and Igor Mezic (Dynamical Systems, Santa Barbara), have been awarded a grant of Euro 27000 to fund a one-week conference, to take place in April 2021, on “Applications of Koopman methods and classical-quantum mechanics“. […]
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The paper “Making sense of the divergent series for reconstructing a Hamiltonian from its eigenstates and eigenvalues“, co-authored by Carl Bender (Washington University), Dorje Brody, and Matthew Parry (University of Otago), has been published in the American Journal of Physics. The paper presents a method for summing divergent series of eigenstates of a Hamiltonian in […]
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The paper “Twists and shear maps in nonlinear elasticity: explicit solutions and vanishing Jacobians” co-authored by Jon Bevan and Sandra Käbisch, has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics. A link to the published paper is here, and a link to the arXiv version is here. The paper studies […]
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