The paper “On AdS2/CFT1 transfer matrices, Bethe ansatz and scale invariance” sole authored by Alessandro Torrielli, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. A link to the final form arXiv version is here. In the paper, he explicitly calculates the AdS2×S2×T6 transfer-matrix eigenvalues in the massless sector using […]
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Alexei Ilyin of the Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow is visiting the department for two weeks, arriving Monday 23 October. He is on a research visit as part of the EPSRC-supported project on nonlinear PDEs of Sergey Zelik and Anna Kostianko. Alexei’s Researchgate profile is here. Alexei […]
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Andrea Fontanella is visiting DAMTP at the University of Cambridge today (Tuesday 17th October) to give a talk in the Mathematical Physics Seminar series. The title of his talk is “Towards bulk extension of near-horizon geometries“. A link to the seminar page is here, and the talk is based the paper “Moduli Spaces of Transverse […]
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Anne Skeldon is at the World Sleep Congress in Prague, Czech Republic, this week (7-11 October). The congress is hosting 2400 people interested in sleep including medics, psychologists, mathematicians, and sleep scientists. Anne organised and chaired a session on: “Environmental challenges: the impact of artificial light on sleep and circadian biology“, and a link to […]
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Sergey Zelik visited the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Durham yesterday (Monday 9th October) to give the Pure Mathematics Colloquium. His talk was on “Recent progress in the theory of inertial manifolds“. Abstract and further details can be found at the Durham Colloq website here.
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Congratulations to Daniel Ratliff for passing his PhD viva yesterday (Wednesday 4th October). The examiners were Gennady El (Loughborough) and David Lloyd. The title of his thesis is “Conservation laws, multiphase modulation, and the emergence of universal forms”. His project was supervised by Tom Bridges and Matt Turner. Dan has started a 3-year postdoc at […]
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