The paper “Reconstructing ice-age palaeoclimates: quantifying low-CO2 effects on plants” has been accepted for publication in the Elsevier journal “Global and Planetary Change“. The co-authors are Colin Prentice (Imperial, Macquarie), Sean Cleator, Ying Huang, Sandy Harrison (Macquarie, Reading) and Ian Roulstone. The paper presents a novel method to quantify the ecophysiological effects of changes in […]
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Congratulations to Donal Harkin, who passed his PhD confirmation examination today, Monday 9th January. His PhD confirmation report is titled “Parameter estimation and inverse problems for reactive transport models in bioirrigated sediments“. The Examination Panel consisted of Janet Godolphin and Ian Roulstone. The principal supervisor of the project is Naratip Santitissadeekorn, and second supervisor is […]
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Matt Turner attended the Dynamics of Rotating Fluids 2017 Meeting held at the Department of Mathematics at UCL on Friday 6th January. In addition, Matt was there as part of the project meeting with Gavin Esler and John Norbury on their numerical weather prediction project.
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EPSRC and the KTN are supporting a Review of UK Mathematical Science Knowledge Exchange, which is chaired by Prof Philip Bond. Philip Aston is a member of the Review Committee which met in London for the first time on 20th December. The committee will be involved with gathering evidence for the review in the new […]
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Alessandro Torrielli is visiting ETH in Zurich Switzerland this week (w/c 19 December). He is visiting the Institute for Theoretical Physics and giving talk on Tuesday 20 December in the series Strings, CFT & Integrability. His talk is on “Integrability and massless modes in the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence”, and in it he discusses massless modes in […]
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Congratulations to Esther Bonet Luz for passing her PhD viva today (Friday 16th December). Her thesis title is “Geometry and symmetry of quantum and classical quantum dynamics“. The examiners were Marco Castrillon Lopez (Madrid) and Mark Roberts. Esther was supervised by Cesare Tronci.
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