In the paper “How to model fake news” by Dorje Brody and David Meier (Brunel University), a mathematical model for fake news based on the theory of information is developed. A definition is given and two approaches for the modelling of fake news and its impact in elections are introduced. A preprint of the paper […]
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The National Environmental Research Council (NERC) has announced that the Reading-Surrey Partnership has been awarded a five-year Doctoral Training grant in weather and climate, extending the current SCENARIO DTP to 2025. The grant funds 12 PhD studentships per year for 5 years. The Surrey node leaders are Sue Hughes (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Ian Roulstone, […]
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Congratulations to Matthew Bailey for passing his PhD viva today! The external examiner was Peter Achermann (Zurich), the internal examiner was Ian Morris, and Philip Aston was in the role of Chair. The title of Matt‘s thesis is “Modelling sleep-wake regulation: the dynamics, bifurcations and applications of the two process model”, and his project has […]
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The paper “The low-energy limit of AdS3/CFT2 and its TBA“, co-authored by Diego Bombardelli (Torino), Bogdan Stefanski (City U, London), and Alessandro Torrielli has been accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics. The abstract and final final form arXiv version can be found here.
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Gianne Derks visited Herriot-Watt University and gave a talk at the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh on Friday 5 October. Her talk was on “Existence and stability of fronts in inhomogeneous wave equations“. Further details and the abstract can be found here.
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Cesare Tronci is participating in a 3 month Workshop on “Hamiltonian systems, from topology to applications through analysis” at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California at Berkeley. Cesare is attending from mid September to mid December. On Friday 12 October, as part of the first week-long minisymposium, Cesare is speaking on […]
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