The 2017 British Applied Mathematics Colloquium started on Monday 10 April at Surrey with opening remarks from the Vice Chancellor Prof Max Lu. The Monday programme had two plenaries: Karen Willcox (MIT) and Peter Grindrod (Oxford), as well as 11 Minisymposiums, and over 50 talks. At the end of the day Cambridge University Press organised […]
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The 2017 Postgraduate Ceremony for the University of Surrey took place 5-7 April 2017, with the mathematics awards taking place on Friday 7th April in the afternoon. Five PhDs in Mathematics were conferred (Esther Bonet Luz, Katie Cranfield, Sandra Kabisch, Jonathan Pennant, Antonio Pitelli). Representing and processing on behalf of the department were Tom Bridges, […]
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It is now straightforward to collect large quantities of physiological data, such as blood pressure and ECG. The key challenge is to unlock the information in these complex data sets. In both heart conditions and infection, early detection allows for critical interventions that will save lives and reduce chronic morbidities. The attractor reconstruction (AR) method […]
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The paper “Periodic and quasi-periodic attractors for the spin-orbit evolution of Mercury with a realistic tidal torque“, co-authored by M.V. Bartuccelli, J.H.B. Deane, and G. Gentile (Roma III) has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. In the paper, they make a detailed study of the spin-orbit dynamics of […]
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Congratulations to Ian Morris and Martin Wolf for promotion to Senior Lecturer. These promotions took effect on 1st April 2017. Ian is a member of the Dynamical Systems and nonlinear PDEs research group, and Martin is a member of the Fields, Strings, and Geometry research group. The picture below shows a self-affine fractal generated in […]
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The paper The effects of self-selected light-dark cycles and social constraints on human sleep and circadian timing: a modeling approach, co-authored by Anne Skeldon, Andrew Phillips (Harvard), and Derk-Jan Dijk (FHMS, Surrey) has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. The paper is attracting considerable media attention. Anne spoke on BBC Surrey radio today (28 […]
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