Congratulations to Tom O’Neill for passing his PhD confirmation examination today (Tuesday 30 January)! The examiners were Ian Roulstone and Jon Bevan. Tom‘s project title is “Validating the semigeostrophic equations as the vanishing Froude/Rossby number limit of the 3D Euler equations in the class of smooth solutions” and the project is supervised by Bin Cheng.
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Anne Skeldon is visiting the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds today (Tuesday 30 January), to give a talk in the Applied Mathematics Series (link here). The title is “Mathematical modelling of sleep and (other) daily biological rhythms: light, clocks and social jetlag“ and is based on joint work with Prof Derk-Jan Dijk […]
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Congratulations to Michael Foskett for passing his PhD confirmation this afternoon, Monday 29 January 2018. The examiners were Jan Gutowski and Alessandro Torrielli. The title of Michael‘s confirmation report is “A geometric mechanical approach to wavefunction factorisations in nonadiabatic dynamics“. The project is supervised by Cesare Tronci.
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The paper “q-Poincaré supersymmetry in AdS5/CFT4” co-authored by Riccardo Borsato (Stockholm University and KTH) and Alessandro Torrielli has been accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B. Abstract and final-form preprint can be found on the arXiv here.
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The paper “A coherent structure approach for parameter estimation in Lagrangian data assimilation“, co-authored by John Maclean (U North Carolina), Naratip Santitissadeekorn, and Christopher K.R.T. Jones (U North Carolina) has been published in the December 2017 issue of PhysicaD (link here). The paper shows that coherent patterns can be used to form effective data assimilation […]
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Cesare Tronci has been appointed to a Research Membership at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley for the four month programme on Hamiltonian Systems. The Research Membership provides local funding for four months and round-trip travel to San Francisco. The programme will take place from 13 August 2018 to […]
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