The paper “Wall stress enhanced exocytosis of extracellular vesicles as a possible mechanism of left-right symmetry-breaking in vertebrate development“, co-authored by Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn, David J. Smith (Birmingham), Susana S. Lopes (Nova University of Lisbon), Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson (Birmingham) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The in press accepted version is […]
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Carina Dunlop visited the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday 9th October and gave a talk in the Mathematical Biology Seminar series (link here). The title of her talk was “Mechanical models for cell and tissue mechanotransduction” and the abstract can be found here. The figure left is the logo for […]
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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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