The paper “Circle maps with gaps: Understanding the dynamics of the two-process model for sleep–wake regulation“, co-authored by Matt Bailey, Gianne Derks, and Anne Skeldon has been published in the European Journal of Applied Mathematics. The paper studies the “two-process model”, which has played a central role in the understanding of sleep/wake regulation for over […]
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The paper “A calibration method for estimating critical cavitation loads from below in three-dimensional nonlinear elasticity“, co-authored by Jonathan Bevan and Jonathan Deane, has been published in the SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis. A link to the published electronic version is here. In the paper they give an explicit sufficient condition for the affine lambda-map […]
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This week (14-18 May) Anne Skeldon is in America to attend a conference and visit Rush University Medical College to give a seminar. The conference is the Society for Research in Biological Rhythms meeting at the Omni Amelia island Plantation Resort, just northeast of Jacksonville Florida (photo shown left). At the conference Anne will be […]
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A team lead by Beth Wingate (Exeter) and including Bin Cheng (Surrey), Colin Cotter (Imperial), and David Acreman (Exeter) has been awarded an £850k EPSRC grant for the project “On the way to the asymptotic limit: mathematics of slow-fast coupling in PDEs” (EPSRC link here). The grant runs till March 2021. The main motivation of […]
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The paper A new model for the dynamics of Hepatitis C infection: Derivation, analysis and implications by Philip Aston has been published in a special issue on mathematical modelling of viral infections in the journal Viruses. Some existing models of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are reviewed and inconsistencies between the models and known behaviour of the […]
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Cesare Tronci has been awarded a Fellowship by the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation in Germany. The Fellowship pays a salary and expenses for a 10 month visit to the Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik. Cesare is planning to start the Fellowship on 1 January 2019. The institute is in Garching, near Munich, and his host […]
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