Carina Dunlop visited Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton on Tuesday 9 January to give a seminar in the Applied Mathematics Series. Her talk was on “Mechanical models for cell and tissue culture exploring mechanotransduction“. An abstract of the talk follows: the ability of cells to sense and respond to the mechanical properties of […]
Read more
David Lloyd is part of a team (including Martin Short (Georgia Tech) and Theodore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie University)) that has been awarded funding for a one week conference programme on “Mathematical Criminology and Security” to be held at the Banff International Research Station for mathematical innovation and discovery in Alberta Canada. The programme is to be […]
Read more
The paper “The Hawking-Penrose singularity theorem for C^{1,1} Lorentzian metrics” co-authored by Melanie Graf (Vienna), James Grant, Michael Kunzinger (Vienna), and Roland Steinbauer (Vienna), has just been published in the Communications in Mathematical Physics, link here. The paper shows that the Hawking–Penrose singularity theorem, and the generalisation of this theorem due to Galloway and Senovilla, […]
Read more
Congratulations to Jacob Brooks who passed his PhD confirmation examination on Monday 18th December. His confirmation report is titled “Existence of stationary fronts in a system of two coupled wave equations with spatial inhomogeneity”. The examiners were Tom Bridges and Sergey Zelik. The project co-supervisors are Gianne Derks and David Lloyd.
Read more
Congratulations to Chrissy Gavin for passing her PhD viva today! The examiners were Nikola Popovic (Edinburgh) and Carina Dunlop. The title of her thesis is “Geometric Singular Perturbation Theory for a Dimerisation Problem in Mathematical Pharmacology“. Her project was co-supervised by Philip Aston and Gianne Derks.
Read more
Congratulations to Dr Daniel Ratliff for being awarded university PhD student of the year at the University of Surrey. Dan passed his PhD viva in October and the title of Doctor was conferred at the end of November. Dan‘s PhD thesis was on “Conservation laws, modulation and the emergence of universal forms“, supervised by Tom […]
Read more
