Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Ian Morris visited the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, yesterday (Thursday 26 November) to give a talk in the seminar of the Number Theory Group. His talk was on “The central limit theorem for the number of steps in the Euclidean algorithm“.  Abstract: The number of steps required by the Euclidean algorithm to find the […]

Congratulations to Hayley O’Farrell for passing her PhD viva today (Wednesday 25 November).  The title of her thesis is “Temporal modelling of disease outbreaks using state space and delay differential equations“, and the project was supervised by Janet Godolphin and Stephen Gourley at Surrey, and co-supervised by Mark Arnold at APHA.  The project was sponsored […]

Congratulations to Kavita Patni who passed her PhD viva today (Wednesday 25 November).  The title of her thesis is “Damped Navier-Stokes equations in 2D” and the project was supervised by Sergey Zelik.  The external examiner was John Gibbon (Imperial) and the internal examiner was Bin Cheng.

As part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the London Mathematical Society, there will be a Mathematics Festival at the Science Museum called What’s Your Angle? which will showcase how mathematics relates to everyday life. It is taking place from Wednesday 25th November to Sunday 29th November. Philip Aston is taking part in this Festival […]

Naratip Santitissadeekorn has been travelling around the UK giving seminars.  On Thursday 1 October, he gave one of the main talks at the 6th International Workshop on Set-Oriented Numerics held at Imperial College London.  Today, 13 November, he is visiting the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick to give a talk in the Applied […]

Anne Skeldon and Derk-Jan Dijk (Surrey Sleep Research Centre) have co-authored a News and Views article for Nature on “Biological Rhythms: human sleep before the industrial era”.  It has appeared in the November issue and can be found here. A quantitative study of sleep patterns in three pre-industrial societies implies that our natural sleep duration […]