Ian Morris is visiting the University of Udine this week (Tuesday 19 November to Thursday 21 November) to attend a give a talk at the mini-Workshop on “The joint spectral radius” (link here for the programme). The title of his talk is “Fast approximation of the p-norm joint spectral radius“. The p-norm joint spectral radius […]
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The paper “A rigorous mathematical treatment of the shape of a dissipative rope fountain” co-authored by Jon Bevan and Jonathan Deane, has been published today (Wednesday 13 November) by the Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London (link here). The diagram on the left is Figure 3 from the paper. A video showing a […]
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Congratulations to Ying Huang for passing his PhD viva today (Monday 4 November)! The External Examiner was Mark Cooker (East Anglia) and the Internal Examiner was Anne Skeldon. Ying‘s supervisor is Matt Turner. The title of Ying’s thesis is: “Dynamic Coupling between Fluid Motion and Rectilinear Vessel Motion in a System of Connected Vessels“.
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Jon Bevan is in Prague, the Czech Republic, this week (29 October to 1 November) for the conference “Mathematics for Mechanics“. Jon is giving an invited talk on “The regularity of elastic energy minimisers with positive twist“. A link to the website with full details of the programme and abstracts is here. The picture below […]
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Congratulations to Donal Harkin for passing his PhD viva today (Tuesday 29 October)! The External Examiner was Colin Cotter (Imperial) and the Internal Examiner was Janet Godolphin. Donal‘s supervisor is Naratip Santitissadeekorn. The title of Donal’s thesis is: “Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems for Reactive Transport Models in Bioirrigated Sediments“.
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Martin Wolf visited the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southampton where he gave a talk in the String Theory Seminar series, on “L-infinity algebras, field theory and scattering amplitudes.” A link to the seminar page with abstract is here.
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