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“.
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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.
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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 […]
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The paper “Hamiltonian approach to Ehrenfest expectation values and Gaussian quantum states” co-authored by Esther Bonet-Luz and Cesare Tronci has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A. A link to the final form preprint is available here.
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Arnd Scheel, Professor Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, is visiting the department this week (11-15 April) funded by a London Mathematical Society Scheme 4 grant. David Lloyd is host for his visit, and they are working on a project involving a theory for dislocations in pattern formation.
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Sandra Kabisch is visiting the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics and the University of Leipzig in Germany this week. On Tuesday 12 April she gave a talk in the Oberseminar on Analysis on “n-polyconvexity: a new generalized semiconvexity which contains both poly- and rank-one convexity“. An abstract and announcement of the talk can be found here.
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