Ian Morris attended and gave a talk at the Mini-Workshop on Applied Koopmanism at the Mathematics Institute Oberwolfach in Germany from 7-13 February 2016. A link to the event is here. Applied Koopmanism is an alternative framework for dynamical systems based on the “dynamics of observables” picture. A review article can be found here.
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The book “Lectures on the Theory of Water Waves” co-edited by Tom Bridges, Mark Groves (U Saarbrücken), and Dave Nicholls (U Illinois-Chicago) has been published this week by Cambridge University Press. The announcement and further details about the book are here. The book has a collection of 12 chapters based on lectures at the 2014 […]
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Congratulations to Alessandro Torrielli who is part of an international team who submitted, in late 2015, a proposal for an extended workshop, entitled “New Developments in AdS3/CFT2 Holography”, to be held at the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) in Florence, Italy for 8 weeks in Spring 2017. The total budget is anticipated to be about 100,000 euros. The international team consists of: Prof […]
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Anne Skeldon visited City University London on Tuesday 9 February to give a seminar on “Modelling sleep-wake regulation”. Abstract: Sleep is core to our ability to function and there is increasing evidence that poor or mis-timed sleep increases our risk of cardio-vascular disease, type II diabetes, obesity and cognitive decline. In this talk I will […]
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On Tuesday 26th January, Philip Aston attended the event “Mathematical Sciences: Driving the UK Economy” at the House of Commons which was organised by the Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS). The event was opened by Stephen Metcalfe MP and the speakers were Sir Andrew Dilnot, Dr Mike Lynch, Prof Dame Celia Hoyles, Howard Covington […]
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The second meeting of the 2015-6 Applied Geometric Mechanics Network is held at the University of Surrey on Friday 22 January. The theme of this meeting is Geometric Fluid Dynamics, and the principal speakers are Peter Hydon (Kent), François Gay-Balmaz (Paris), and Emanuele Tassi (Marseille). This LMS-funded network is led by Cesare Tronci, and the […]
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