The conference Quantum Spacetime 2017 is being held this week (30 January – 3 February) in Porto, Portugal, at the Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, At the conference Martin Wolf is giving a talk on “Higher groupoid bundles and the self-dual higher field equations.” The local temperature forecast in […]
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Anne Skeldon gave a talk on Tuesday 10th January at the UK Clock Club meeting held at the University of Oxford with the title “Should we change school start times? Insights from the mathematical modelling of circadian oscillators, self-selected light-dark cycles and social time“. She spoke on joint work with Derk-Jan Dijk (Surrey Sleep Research […]
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The paper “Reconstructing ice-age palaeoclimates: quantifying low-CO2 effects on plants” has been accepted for publication in the Elsevier journal “Global and Planetary Change“. The co-authors are Colin Prentice (Imperial, Macquarie), Sean Cleator, Ying Huang, Sandy Harrison (Macquarie, Reading) and Ian Roulstone. The paper presents a novel method to quantify the ecophysiological effects of changes in […]
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Congratulations to Donal Harkin, who passed his PhD confirmation examination today, Monday 9th January. His PhD confirmation report is titled “Parameter estimation and inverse problems for reactive transport models in bioirrigated sediments“. The Examination Panel consisted of Janet Godolphin and Ian Roulstone. The principal supervisor of the project is Naratip Santitissadeekorn, and second supervisor is […]
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Matt Turner attended the Dynamics of Rotating Fluids 2017 Meeting held at the Department of Mathematics at UCL on Friday 6th January. In addition, Matt was there as part of the project meeting with Gavin Esler and John Norbury on their numerical weather prediction project.
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EPSRC and the KTN are supporting a Review of UK Mathematical Science Knowledge Exchange, which is chaired by Prof Philip Bond. Philip Aston is a member of the Review Committee which met in London for the first time on 20th December. The committee will be involved with gathering evidence for the review in the new […]
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