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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Martin Wolf gave a series of invited lectures for PhD student at Heriot-Watt University last week (27 Nov – 1 Dec) on “Twistors in Gauge and Gravity Theories“. Twistors form a very natural framework to study chiral theories, and in the lectures, it was shown how they facilitate the construction of four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and […]
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Matt Turner visited the Department of Engineering at the University Leicester on Wednesday 29 November for research interaction with Professor Stephen Garrett and to give a seminar. His talk was on “Time-dependent conformal mappings with applications to nonlinear sloshing“. Further details and an abstract can be found on the Leicester website here.
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Congratulations to Andy Oxley for passing his PhD viva today! The examiners were George Craig (Munich) and Matt Turner. The title of his thesis is “Linear Models of Non-Precipitating Convection“. His project was co-supervised by Ian Roulstone and Peter Clark (Reading).
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Anne Skeldon is visiting the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester today (Monday 4 December) to give a seminar and for research interaction with Paul Glendinning. Her seminar is in the “Mathematics of Life Sciences” series and the title is “Mathematical modelling of sleep and (other) daily biological rhythms: light, clocks and social […]
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A new Doctoral Training Centre in Quantum Biology (QB) at the University of Surrey has been set up with a grant of £1.05M awarded by the Leverhulme Trust. The grant funds 15 PhD studentships over 3 years. The DTC in QB is led by Professor Johnjoe McFadden of the School for Biosciences and Medicine, and […]
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