Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Two papers on modulation by Tom Bridges and Dan Ratliff (Loughborough) have been accepted for publication.  The papers address a problem which has been unsolved for over 50 years: what happens to a nonlinear wave when the Whitham modulation equations, evaluated on the wave, break down?  A new nonlinear and universal theory is developed in […]

Martin Wolf and his PhD student Lorenzo Raspollini are at the University of Leeds this week to attend the Workshop on Higher Gauge Theory:” where should we look for higher gauge matter? (From emerging physics and topological quantum computing to string and M-theory).   Martin is also giving a talk entitled “Twistor Geometry and Higher […]

Andrea Fontanella is visiting the String Theory Group at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, this week, and on Monday 26 February he is giving a talk in the String Theory Seminar on “Heterotic near horizon geometries“. An abstract of the talk can be found here. The talk is based on the papers arXiv:1605.05635 and arXiv:1610.09949. Andrea […]

Carina Dunlop visited the Department of Mathematics at the University of Portsmouth yesterday (Wednesday 21 February) to give a talk in their Mathematics Seminar Series. The title of her talk was “Mechanical models for cell and tissue mechanotransduction“.  The abstract follows similar lines to her recent talks at Oxford (link here) and Southampton (link here).

Jan Gutowski is visiting the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London today (Wednesday 14 February), and giving a talk in the Triangle Seminar Series on “Highly supersymmetric AdS solutions“. Anti-de-Sitter solutions play an important role in the gauge-theory/gravity correspondence, and understanding their properties has provided important insights into the dual field theories. In the […]

The paper “q-Poincare invariance of the AdS-3/CFT-2 R-matrix” co-authored by Riccardo Borsato (Nordita-Sweden), Surrey PhD student Joakim Strömwall and Alessandro Torrielli has been accepted for publication in Physical Review D.  The final form preprint is available for downloading here.