Congratulations to Nick Burgess for passing his PhD confirmation examination today (Wednesday 16 January)! The examiners were Bin Cheng and Matt Turner. Nick’s project title is “Shallow water sloshing” and the project is supervised by Tom Bridges with second supervisor Ian Roulstone.
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The book Zonal Jets: Phenomenology, Genesis, and Physics will be published by Cambridge University Press at the end of February. The book collects papers on zonal jets from across disciplines (atmospheric science, oceanography, planetary science, geophysical fluid dynamics, plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics, and turbulence theory). The book is edited by Boris Galperin (University of South Florida) […]
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Dan Hill, Dave Lloyd, and Matt Turner are on a research visit this week (17-19 December) to the Experimental Physics V Research Group at the University of Bayreuth in Bavaria, Germany. Their host is Professor Dr Reinhard Richter. The trip is funded by the Bavarian programme for the initiation of international projects. During the visit […]
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Professor Alex Mahalov, Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University, is visiting the Department for two weeks, arriving Sunday 9 December. His host for the visit is Bin Cheng. and they are working together on multi-scale problems in atmospheric dynamics. On Wednesday 12 December Alex gave a […]
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Vassilios Rothos, Associate Professor of Dynamical Systems at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is visiting the Department this week as part of a London Mathematical Society Scheme 2 grant. He has been in the UK for two weeks, visiting and speaking at the University of Essex and the University of Edinburgh as well. On Friday, he […]
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Alessandro Torrielli is the principal investigator on a major grant awarded by EPSRC and SFI as part of a UK-Ireland programme (link here). The grant links Surrey with Trinity College Dublin. The title of the proposal is “Solving spins and strings” and the co-investigator is Marius de Leeuw (holder of a Royal Society Fellowship at […]
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