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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The paper “On equality of Hausdorff and affinity dimensions, via self-affine measures on positive subsystems“, co-authored by Ian Morris and Pablo Shmerkin (Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina, and former Lecturer at Surrey), was recently accepted for publication by the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. In this article they establish a new method for obtaining […]
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The paper “Inertial manifolds for 1D reaction-diffusion-advection systems. Part I: Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions” co-authored by Anna Kostianko and Sergey Zelik, has been published in Communications in Pure and Applied Analysis. The paper is the first part of their study of inertial manifolds for systems of reaction-diffusion-advection equations in one space dimension, and covers […]
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The paper “Designs with Blocks of Size Two and Applications to Microarray Experiments” by Janet Godolphin has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Statistics. The final form electronic version of the paper can be downloaded from the publisher’s website here.
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Ian Morris is in Sweden for the first two weeks of September attending and speaking at the Fractal Geometry and Dynamics programme, being held at the Institut Mittag-Leffler which is part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Djursholm Sweden. On Thursday 14 September he is giving a talk on “Continuity, computability, and strict […]
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Tom Bridges was in London last week (4-8 September) for the IUTAM Symposium on Wind-Wave Interaction held in the Mathematics Department at University College London. At the conference he gave a talk on “Breakdown of two-wave interaction and extremity: a nonlinear mechanism“.
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