Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Congratulations to Bin Cheng and Jock McOrist, who have been promoted by the university to Senior Lecturer in Mathematics.  These promotions take effect on 1 August 2018.

Lord Hunt of Chesterton visited the department today (19 July) to discuss connections between some of his recent work on scaling of straining motions in homogeneous isotropic turbulence and Ian Roulstone‘s work with Jock McOrist and Martin Wolf on vorticity/strain imbalances and complex geometry.  During the day, Julian will also visit SSTL on behalf of […]

Congratulations to Lorenzo Raspollini for passing his PhD confirmation examination yesterday (Tuesday 17 July)!  The examiners were Alessandro  Torrielli and James Grant. Lorenzo’s project title is “Quantised higher gauge theory” and the project is supervised by Martin Wolf and Jan Gutowski.

Congratulations to Jonathan Deane, Alessandro Torrielli, and Cesare Tronci, who have been promoted by the university to Reader in Mathematics.  These promotions take effect on 1 August 2018.

Stephen Gourley is a member of a team of nine researchers, headed by Martha Betson of the Vet School at Surrey, who have been awarded a £560 K grant from the Medical Research Council to work on a project titled “Zoonotic transmission of intestinal parasites: implications for control and elimination“. The project aims to shed […]

Prof Dr Reinhard Richter and his PhD student Alexandra Fischer, from the Experimental Physics Group at the University of Bayreuth (link here), visited the FMS group this week.  They visited as part of a joint project between Surrey (Dan Hill, Dave Lloyd, Matt Turner) and Bayreuth, funded by the Bavarian initiative for international projects.  The […]