Sergey Zelik is on a four-week research visit to China, arriving on 12th August and returning 6th September. His base in China is the University of Lanzhou (see map left) and his host there is Chunyou Sun (who visited Surrey last year), and they are working on the theory of attractors for dissipative PDEs. He […]
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Congratulations to Jim Allen for passing his PhD viva today (Tuesday 22nd August). The examiners were Dr Anne Kandler (Max Planck, Leipzig) and Carina Dunlop with Stephen Gourley as Chair. The title of his thesis is “The Public Good’s Game on multiplex networks“. His project was supervised by Rebecca Hoyle (Southampton) and Anne Skeldon.
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The book “Symmetry, Phase Modulation, and Nonlinear Waves” by Tom Bridges has been published by Cambridge University Press. A link to the CUP webpage is here. The book is an introduction to “phase modulation” in conservative systems which generalises the classical Whitham modulation theory to include dispersion and singularities while maintaining universality. The theory shows […]
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The paper “Quantization of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation” co-authored by K.K. Kozlowski (Lyon), E.K. Sklyanin (York), and Alessandro Torrielli (in cyrillic: A. Торриеллиe) has just been published in the Russian journal Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika (English translation: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics). The English version is available here and the Russian version is available here.
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The paper “A Model for Moist Convection in an Ascending Atmospheric Column” co-authored by Bin Cheng, Mike Cullen (Met Office), Gavin Esler (UCL), John Norbury (Oxford), Matt Turner, Jacques Vanneste (Edinburgh) and Jingrui Cheng (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison) has been accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. The paper investigates a […]
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The Fields, Strings, and Geometry Group at Surrey and the Theoretical Physics Group at the University of Milano-Bicocca are jointly organising a summer school: the 2018 Bicocca-Surrey School on “Prospects in Strings, Fields and Related Topics”. The summer school will be held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, during 11-15 June 2018. The school is aimed […]
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