The Reading-Surrey NERC-funded DTP on the SCience of the Environment: Natural and Anthropogenic pRocesses, Impacts and Opportunities (SCENARIO) has awarded Ian Roulstone a studentship for a project (joint with the UK Met Office) on “Optimal Mitigation of Sampling Error in Ensemble Data Assimilation“. This studentship has been taken up by a candidate from Durham and […]
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Gianne Derks is giving a talk in the Analysis and Differential Equations Seminar today (Thursday 2 March) at the University of Bath. The title of her talk is “Existence and stability of fronts in inhomogeneous wave equations“. In the talk, wave equations with finite length inhomogeneities are considered. The underlying Hamiltonian structure allows for a […]
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Jock McOrist is giving a talk today (Thursday 2 March) in the String Theory Seminar at DAMTP, University of Cambridge. The title of his talk is “A metric and geometry for heterotic moduli“. Abstract: heterotic vacua, defined by certain 3 complex-dimensional manifolds with a holomorphic bundle admitting a connection satisfying hermitian Yang-Mills and an anomaly […]
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Guido Gentile, a Professor at Università Roma Tre, and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, is visiting the department for research interaction with Jonathan Deane and Michele Bartuccelli. He will be with us for the next two weeks (till mid March) and the team will be working on a number of problems related to […]
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On Wednesday 22nd February, Philip Aston attended a reception organised by the Council for the Mathematical Sciences at the House of Commons. At the reception, Prof Sir Adrian Smith gave a few hints concerning his forthcoming report to government on post-16 mathematics education. There were also some talks about the revised format and membership of […]
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Congratulations to Timothy Burchell who passed his PhD confirmation examination today (Friday 17th February). His confirmation report is titled “Clifford analysis and nonlinear wave equations“. The examiners were Bin Cheng and Jan Gutowski. His principal supervisor is Tom Bridges and his second supervisor is Claudia Wulff.
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