The paper “Decoherence implies information gain”, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Lane Hughston (Goldsmiths University of London) has been published this week in Physical Review Research. In the literature, quantum decoherence — a phenomenon that captures the emergence of classical world from the underlying quantum — is understood to represent the loss of information from […]
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Cesare Tronci visited the Mathematics Department at the University of Sussex today (Monday 3 March) and gave a talk in the Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Seminar. The title of his talk was “Koopmon trajectories in nonadiabatic quantum-classical dynamics“. The abstract can be found on the seminar webpage (link here). The photo below shows an example […]
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Congratulations to Laura Jones for passing her PhD viva! The viva took place on Thursday 27 February. The title of Laura’s thesis is “Mathematical modelling of Collective Efficacy“. The external examiner was Dr Toby Davies (Law, University of Leeds), and the internal examiner was Naratip Santitissadeekorn. Laura’s primary supervisor was David Lloyd and her second supervisor was Prof Ian Brunton-Smith (Sociology, University of Surrey). […]
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The paper “Effect of real-world perturbations on wave breaking due to a sharp-crested superharmonic instability“, co-authored by Ayoub Mansar, Matt Turner, Tom Bridges, and Frederic Dias, has been accepted for publication in the journal Water Waves (link to final-form manuscript here). Ayoub is a PhD student, and Frederic a Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure de […]
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Anne Skeldon visited the University of Umea last week (Thursday-Friday 20-21 February) for a collaborative research visit. Joining her from Surrey was Derk-Jan Dijk (Director Surrey Sleep Research Centre), and her host at Umea was Associate Professor Katharina Wulff, of the Department of Molecular Biology. In addition to research interaction, Anne and Derk-Jan gave back-to-back […]
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In response to the rapidly increasing demand for GP consultations, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) awarded a grant of around £900,000 to examine the impact of First Contact Physiotherapy (FCP) in alleviating the pressure on appointments with GPs. This was driven by the fact that approximately one third of GP consultations are related […]
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