Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Congratulations to Jane Lyle for passing her PhD confirmation examination today (Monday 4 June)!  The examiners were Carina Dunlop and Anne Skeldon. Jane’s project title is “Attractor Reconstruction of ECG Signals” and the project is supervised by Philip Aston and Manasi Nandi (Kings College London). The picture to the left shows Jane at the Houses […]

The paper “Singularity formation and global existence of classical solutions for one-dimensional rotating shallow water system“, co-authored by Bin Cheng, Peng Qu (Fudan University, Shanghai) and Chunjing Xie (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), has been published in the SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis.  A link to the published version is here.  The paper studies classical solutions […]

Anna Kostianko and Sergey Zelik were in Baku, Azerbaijan, last week (21-24 May) to attend and speak at the “Operators, Functions, and PDEs of Mathematical Physics Conference” held in the Department of Mathematics at Khazar University. A link to the conference webpage is here. A special issue of the Azerbaijan Journal of Mathematics will publish […]

Gianne Derks was an invited speaker at the London Mathematical Society Northern Regional Meeting and Workshop on “Advances in the Theory of Nonlinear Waves“, held at the University of Northumbria, 23-25 May. Gianne’s talk was on “Existence and stability of fronts in inhomogeneous wave equations“.  A link to the conference website with full details is […]

Dorje Brody has been appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Surrey with effect from 1st April 2018.  Dorje was formerly Professor of Mathematics at Brunel University.  His research interests include geometry, information theory, quantum foundations, the Riemann hypothesis, and mathematical finance.  He received his PhD from Imperial College, and has held academic positions […]

Matt Turner is visiting Imperial College London today (Thursday 24 May).  He is one of the invited speakers at the 2nd International Applied and Computational Complex Analysis (ACCA) UK workshop organised by Darren Crowdy and Sheehan Olver. The title of Matt’s talk is “Numerical simulation of fluid sloshing in rectangular vessels using conformal mappings”.