Congratulations to Anna Kostianko, a final year PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, supervised by Bin Cheng and Sergey Zelik, who has been awarded PhD student of the year in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. The citation reads “Anna joined the Department of Mathematics as a PhD student in October 2013, having […]
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Gianne Derks is on a month-long research visit during July and August to Brisbane Australia, supported by a DECRA grant. She is visiting Peter van Heijster who is at Queensland University of Technology. While there she will be speaking at the Joint Australia-Japan workshop on dynamical systems with applications in life sciences which will take […]
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The paper “Coupled sloshing in hyperbolic containers suspended as a bifilar pendulum“, co-authored by Matt Turner and Patrick Weidman (University of Colorado, Boulder) has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids. The paper investigates the coupled dynamics between a sloshing fluid and its container, which is suspended as a bifilar pendulum. The two containers […]
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Alex Close passed his PhD confirmation examination on Friday 27 July. The examiners were Jan Gutowski and Alessandro Torrielli. The project has the title: Variational and Hamiltonian techniques for plasma kinetic theory. The PhD supervisor of Alex is Cesare Tronci.
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A Surrey team, comprising Carina Dunlop, Jim Allen, Euan Littlejohns, Matthew Bailey, and Gianne Derks, are attending ECMTB 2016 this week, 11-15 July. Carina, Jim, Euan, and Gianne are giving talks, Matthew is presenting a poster, and Gianne is organiser of a minisymposium on Mathematical Pharmacology. ECMTB is the 2016 joint meeting of the European […]
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The journal Studies in Applied Mathematics has announced that four papers have been chosen as Highlights of the year 2015. One of these papers is “Breakdown of the Whitham modulation theory and the emergence of dispersion“, authored by Tom Bridges. A link to the paper is here.
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