Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Bin Cheng is visiting the University of Bremen this week (12-16 December), and on Friday he is an invited speaker at the Conference on Mathematics, Waves, and Geophysical Flow. The event is sponsored by the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 181 “Energy Transfer in Atmosphere and Ocean” funded by DFG.  Bin’s talk is on Friday morning […]

The paper “Multiphase wavetrains, singular wave interactions and the emergence of the KdV equation“, co-authored by Dan Ratliff and Tom Bridges, has just (8 December) been published by the Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London.  The paper is published open access, and the abstract and paper are viewable here.

Alessandro Torrielli, and co-organisers of the Florence conference on “New Developments in AdS3/CFT2 holography“, have been awarded a grant of 64,000 EUR to fund Early Career Researcher  attendance.  The grant was awarded by Associazione di Fondazioni e di Casse di Risparmio Spa (ACRI), which collects Italian credit institutes and non-profit bank foundations, via the Istituto […]

Congratulations to Andreas Foiniotis, who passed his PhD confirmation examination today, Wednesday 7th December.  His PhD confirmation report is titled “Evolution of Resistance in Ecological and Epidemiological Contexts“.  The Examination Panel consisted of Tom Bridges and Sergey Zelik.  The principal supervisor of the project is Stephen Gourley, and second supervisor is David Lloyd.

The paper ` Lagrangian particle path formulation of multilayer shallow-water flows dynamically coupled to vessel motion’ co-authored by Matt Turner, Tom Bridges and Hamid Alemi Ardakani has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Engineering Mathematics. The paper presents a Lagrangian Particle Path (LPP) formulation for the two-layer shallow-water flow with a rigid lid. […]

Jon Bevan is visiting  the Fachbereich Mathematik at the University of Muenster in northwest Germany this week (21-25 November), hosted by Prof Dr Caterina Zeppieri.  On Wednesday he gave a talk in the Oberseminar Angewandte Mathematik with title “Conditions for the Holder regularity of local minimizers of a nonlinear elastic energy in two dimensions“.  A […]