Carina Dunlop gave a talk today (Thursday 31 January) in the Applied Mathematics Seminar series at the University of Birmingham on “Mechanical models for cellular mechanotransduction“. Carina talked about the ability of cells to sense and respond to the mechanical properties of their environments which is fundamental to cellular behaviour, with stiffness found to be […]
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Congratulations to Marcel Dengler for passing his PhD confirmation examination today (Thursday 31 January)! The examiners were Bin Cheng and Stephen Gourley. The title of Marcel’s project is “New regularity methods for polyconvex functionals” and the project is supervised by Jon Bevan with second supervisor James Grant.
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The paper “On equality of Hausdorff and affinity dimensions, via self-affine measures on positive subsystems” co-authored by Ian Morris and Pablo Shmerkin (Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina) has been published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. In the paper they show that the affinity dimension of a planar self-affine set is equal to […]
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The paper “An integro-differential equation with variable delay arising in machine tool vibration” co-authored by Feng-Bin Wang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan), Stephen Gourley, and Yanyu Xiao (University of Cincinnati), has been published in the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics. The paper rigorously derives and analyzes an integro-differential equation as a model for the possible onset […]
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Congratulations to Dan Hill for passing his PhD confirmation examination today (Thursday 17 January)! The examiners were Claudia Wulff and Tom Bridges. The title of Dan’s project is “Localised Radial Spots on the Surface of a Ferrofluid” and the project is supervised by Dave Lloyd with second supervisor Matt Turner.
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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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