Congratulations to Andy Oxley for passing his PhD viva today! The examiners were George Craig (Munich) and Matt Turner. The title of his thesis is “Linear Models of Non-Precipitating Convection“. His project was co-supervised by Ian Roulstone and Peter Clark (Reading).
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Anne Skeldon is visiting the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester today (Monday 4 December) to give a seminar and for research interaction with Paul Glendinning. Her seminar is in the “Mathematics of Life Sciences” series and the title is “Mathematical modelling of sleep and (other) daily biological rhythms: light, clocks and social […]
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A new Doctoral Training Centre in Quantum Biology (QB) at the University of Surrey has been set up with a grant of £1.05M awarded by the Leverhulme Trust. The grant funds 15 PhD studentships over 3 years. The DTC in QB is led by Professor Johnjoe McFadden of the School for Biosciences and Medicine, and […]
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The paper “Dynamic fluid sloshing in a one-dimensional array of coupled vessels” co-authored by Ying Huang and Matt Turner has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids. The paper identifies multiple (n+1)-fold 1:…:1 resonances in a system of N coupled vessels in a 1D array, with each vessel containing a sloshing fluid. The vessels […]
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Two papers co-authored by Jan Gutowski have appeared in the Journal of High Energy Physics in 2017. The paper “Dynamical symmetry enhancement near N=2, D=4 gauged supergravity horizons“, co-authored with T. Mohaupt (Liverpool) and G. Papadopoulos (Kings College London), was published in March, link here. The paper “Calibrated entanglement entropy“, co-authored with I. Bakhmatov (Pohang, […]
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The paper “Optimal mixing enhancement” co-authored by Gary Froyland (University of New South Wales) and Naratip Santitissadeekorn has recently appeared in the SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics. A link to the published paper is here. The paper introduces a general-purpose method for optimizing the mixing rate of advective fluid flows.
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