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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Gianne Derks was an invited speaker at the Workshop on Mathematical Medicine and Mathematical Pharmacology held in the BioMaths group in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Swansea. It was held on Thursday-Friday 2-3 February. Her talk was on “Dimer dynamics and degenerate transversally intersecting manifolds“. An abstract can be found here. Click […]
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The paper “Fast numerics for the spin orbit equation with realistic tidal dissipation and constant eccentricity” co-authored by Michele Bartuccelli, Jonathan Deane, and Guido Gentile (Roma III and Visiting Professor at Surrey), has been accepted for publication in the journal Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy. A link to the arXiv version is here. The paper […]
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