The paper “Invasion fronts outside the homoclinic snaking region in the planar Swift-Hohenberg equation“, by David Lloyd, has been accepted for publication in the SIAM J Applied Dynamical Systems. The paper solves an open problem on numerical bifurcation analysis of depinning fronts. The final-form preprint can be found here. The diagram on the left is […]
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The Proceedings of the LMS/EPSRC Durham Symposium on “Higher Structures in M-Theory” have now been published in Volume 67 of the journal Progress of Physics (link here). The volume is edited by Branislav Jurčo (Charles University, Prague), Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt), Urs Schreiber (Czech Academy Sci), and Martin Wolf. A link to the introduction is here.
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Alessandro Torrielli visited the Dipartimento di Fisica at the University of Calabria, in the south of Italy, from 5-7 September. He gave a talk on 5 September on “Massless scattering in lower dimensional AdS/CFT“. A link to the department and abstract is here.
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Janet Godolphin attended the 2019 meeting of the Royal Statistical Society held in Belfast during 2-5 September (link here). She gave an invited presentation in Session 5.5: Methods and Theory: Theoretical advances in experimental design. The title of her talk was “Construction of blocked factorial and fractional factorial designs“. A link to the abstract of […]
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Prof Dr Mark Groves visited the department the week of 19 August for research interaction with members of the department, predominantly interacting with “Team Ferrofluids” who are working on the theory of localised patterns at the surface of a ferrofluid. The photo below shows Mark (left) with the team: Dan Hill, Dave Lloyd, and Matt […]
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Congratulations to Roberto Sisca for passing his PhD viva today! The External Examiner was Mario Garcia-Fernandez ICMAT, Madrid), the Internal Examiner was Martin Wolf, and Alessandro Torrielli chaired the viva. Roberto‘s supervisor is Jock McOrist. The title of Roberto’s thesis is: Heterotic vacua and their universal geometry“.
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