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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The paper “A condition for the Hölder continuity of local minimizers of a nonlinear elastic energy in two dimensions“, by Jon Bevan, has been accepted for publication in the Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. The paper proves the local Hölder continuity of strong local minimizers of the stored energy functional subject to a condition […]
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The paper Constraining DALEC v2 using multiple data streams and ecological constraints: analysis and application” by Sylvain Delahaies, Ian Roulstone, and Nancy Nichols (Reading) has just been published in the journal Geoscientific Model Development, published by the European Geophysical Union. The paper uses a variational method to assimilate multiple data streams into the terrestrial ecosystem […]
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