Sylvain Delahaies, who is working on the NERC-funded Data Assimilation project with Ian Roulstone, gave presentations in Vienna and Paris in April. From 12-17 April he was in Vienna for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015 (EGU 2015). On Friday 17th he gave a talk on “A practical method to assess model sensitivity and […]
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Professor Paolo Secchi is visiting the Dynamical Systems and PDEs group in the department for two weeks, arriving on Wednesday 29th April, supported by a grant from the London Mathematical Society. He is a Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Brescia in Italy. His co-hosts are Michele Bartuccelli and Bin Cheng. The research to […]
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Martin Wolf visited Seoul Korea during the week of 21 April. He spent about a week at the Department of Physics and Astronomy & Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, hosted by Prof Seok Kim. He gave a talk on Thursday 23 April on “Self-dual higher gauge theory“. He also visited the School of […]
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Congratulations to Phd student Michelle Grant for passing her PhD confirmation examination today (Friday 24 April). The confirmation report was on “The application of data assimilation schemes close to a bifurcation in a noisy system“. The examiners were David Lloyd and Naratip Santitissadeekom. Her supervisors are Anne Skeldon and Ian Roulstone.
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Gianne Derks attended the BioDynamics Workshop 2015 which was held in Edinburgh on 15-17 April. This workshop was the second in a series of international workshops designed to bring together biologists, mathematicians, clinicians, physicists, and computer scientists who are interested in dynamical systems in the biological and medical sciences. At the conference Gianne presented a […]
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The paper of Ian Morris, co-authored with Jairo Bochi (Rio de Janiero), on “Continuity properties of the lower spectral radius“, has appeared in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. A link to the paper is here. The lower spectral radius, or joint spectral subradius, of a set of real d×d matrices is defined to […]
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