Alessandro Torrielli is visiting ETH in Zurich Switzerland this week (w/c 19 December). He is visiting the Institute for Theoretical Physics and giving talk on Tuesday 20 December in the series Strings, CFT & Integrability. His talk is on “Integrability and massless modes in the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence”, and in it he discusses massless modes in […]
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Congratulations to Esther Bonet Luz for passing her PhD viva today (Friday 16th December). Her thesis title is “Geometry and symmetry of quantum and classical quantum dynamics“. The examiners were Marco Castrillon Lopez (Madrid) and Mark Roberts. Esther was supervised by Cesare Tronci.
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Bin Cheng is visiting the University of Bremen this week (12-16 December), and on Friday he is an invited speaker at the Conference on Mathematics, Waves, and Geophysical Flow. The event is sponsored by the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 181 “Energy Transfer in Atmosphere and Ocean” funded by DFG. Bin’s talk is on Friday morning […]
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The paper “Multiphase wavetrains, singular wave interactions and the emergence of the KdV equation“, co-authored by Dan Ratliff and Tom Bridges, has just (8 December) been published by the Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London. The paper is published open access, and the abstract and paper are viewable here.
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Alessandro Torrielli, and co-organisers of the Florence conference on “New Developments in AdS3/CFT2 holography“, have been awarded a grant of 64,000 EUR to fund Early Career Researcher attendance. The grant was awarded by Associazione di Fondazioni e di Casse di Risparmio Spa (ACRI), which collects Italian credit institutes and non-profit bank foundations, via the Istituto […]
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Congratulations to Andreas Foiniotis, who passed his PhD confirmation examination today, Wednesday 7th December. His PhD confirmation report is titled “Evolution of Resistance in Ecological and Epidemiological Contexts“. The Examination Panel consisted of Tom Bridges and Sergey Zelik. The principal supervisor of the project is Stephen Gourley, and second supervisor is David Lloyd.
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