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, […]
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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Claudia Wulff has been appointed to the editorial board of SIAM Review, with effect from 1 January 2018. SIAM Review is the flagship journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the largest applied mathematics society in the world. The journal is sent to all 11,000+ members of the society. Further detail about the […]
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A Surrey team, consisting of Alex Close, Michael Foskett, and Cesare Tronci are in London today (Thursday 7th December) for the second AGM meeting of the year on the theme of “Geometric Quantum Dynamics“. Michael is one of the principal speakers and he is talking on “Wavefunction factorizations and gauge structure dynamics in quantum chemistry“. […]
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