Vice Chancellor Max Lu visited the Department of Mathematics on Monday 22 May. It was his first visit to the department and he took the opportunity to present his vision for the university and the role of mathematics in the future strategy. Topics under discussion included data science, interdisciplinary research across faculties and how the […]
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Congratulations to Anna Kostianko for passing her PhD viva today! The examiners were James Robinson (Warwick) and James Grant. The title of her thesis is “Inertial manifolds for semilinear parabolic equations which do not satisfy the spectral gap condition“. Her project was supervised by Sergey Zelik and the second supervisor was Bin Cheng.
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Gianne Derks is attending the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems this week, 21-25 May. The conference is being held at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in the mountains of Utah. She is giving a talk in the session on Mathematical Pharmacology titled “Dimer dynamics and degenerate transversally intersecting manifolds“. A link to […]
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A team from the Department of Mathematics will be taking part in two exhibits at the Festival of Wonder at the University of Surrey on Saturday 13 May. They will be exhibiting in the “Wonder” marquee. Ester Bonet Luz, Jane Lyle and Ying Huang will be in the Tech zone discussing their work with Philip […]
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Anne Skeldon visited the Applied and Industrial Mathematical Science group at the University of Bath yesterday and gave a seminar on “Mathematical modelling of sleep and (other) daily biological rhythms: light, clocks and social jetlag“. Link and abstract here. In this talk she reviewed some of the existing mathematical models of the sleep/wake cycle and […]
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Ian Roulstone is visiting the Department of Mathematics at the University of Milano-Bicocca this week, 10-12 May. He is giving a Mathematics/Physics Colloquium on “Weather, Turbulence and Monge-Ampere geometry“, hosted by Sara Pasquetti and Silvia Penati. In his role as Head of Department he will be meeting with the Rector (VC) of the University, Professor […]
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