Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Jon Bevan is in Philadelphia this week for the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science. He is giving a talk on “Conditions for the Holder regularity of local minimizers of a nonlinear elastic energy in two dimensions” in the Minisymposium on Soft Elastic Materials.  A link to the Minisymposium webpage with abstracts is […]

The paper “From liquid crystal models to the guiding-center theory of magnetized plasmas“, authored by Cesare Tronci, has been accepted for publication in the Annals of Physics.  Upon combining Northrop’s picture of charged particle motion with modern liquid crystal theories, the paper provides a new description of guiding center dynamics, to lowest order.  A final […]

Matthew Turner’s latest paper on forced fluid sloshing in a container with bottom topography is to appear in the Journal of Fluids and Structures. This paper uses a conformal mapping to map the interior of the fluid domain to a rectangle with time dependent aspect ratio, in order to perform efficient numerical simulations of the […]

Bin Cheng visited the University of Brescia in Italy during the week of 4 April.  His visit involved research interaction with Professor Paolo Secchi, and he gave a talk in the mathematics seminar series on Wednesday 6 April on “Existence of global weak solutions to a hybrid kinetic-MHD model for plasma dynamics“.

Congratulations to Andrea Fontanella who passed his PhD confirmation examination this morning.  The title of his report is “Supersymmetric event horizons“.  The project is supervised by Jan Gutowski and Jock McOrist, and the examiners were Alessandro Torrielli and Martin Wolf.

Matthew Turner is on a two-week research visit, returning 22 April, to the University of Colorado in Boulder visiting Patrick Weidman, who is a world leading experimentalist and theoretician on fluid sloshing in moving vessels.  Also on this visit Matthew gave a research seminar in the `Nonlinear Waves’ seminar series in the Mathematics Department on […]