Alexander Timokha, of the Department of Marine Technology, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, is visiting the department this week to interact with Hamid Alemi Ardakani, Tom Bridges, and Matt Turner on the OWEL Research Project. Alexander is a world renowned expert on sloshing and co-author of the leading book on the subject […]
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The paper “The S-matrix algebra of the AdS_2 X S_2 superstring“, co-authored by Ben Hoare (ETH, Zürich), Antonio Pittelli, and Alessandro Torrielli, has been accepted for publication as a regular article in Physical Review D. In the paper they find the Yangian algebra responsible for the integrability of the AdS2 X S2 X T6 superstring […]
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The book UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics has now been published by Springer. It is edited by Philip Aston together with Tony Mulholland and Katy Tant (Strathclyde). This book contains 38 articles that showcase the work of UK mathematicians and statisticians by describing industrial problems that have been successfully solved, together with a summary […]
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Gianne Derks and Anne Skeldon are at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) in Barcelona for a two week programme on “Advances in Nonsmooth Dynamics“. Key themes are singular perturbation theory, and ODEs in social and economic systems. Gianne is at the programme 15-27 February and Anne is there 21-27 February. Information about the programme […]
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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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