SCENARIO, which is a NERC-funded Doctoral Training Partnership, linking the University of Reading with the University of Surrey and 20+ other partners, held its first annual conference today (9 June) at Surrey. The conference brings together current and potential PhD students from Reading and Surrey as well as current and potential supervisors. Further details and […]
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Anna Kostianko, Daniel Ratliff, and Anton Savostianov are at the University of Bielefeld in Germany this week to attend the workshop on “Longtime Behaviour of Nonlinear Waves” which runs from 8-12 June. Anton is giving a talk on “Global well-posedness and attractors for the hyperbolic Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation in the whole space“, and Daniel is presenting […]
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Priyata Gurung, a third year undergraduate on the MMath programme, has been awarded an EPSRC Vacation Bursary to work with Anne Skeldon and Dr Nayantara Santhi (Surrey Sleep Research Centre). The project title is “Modelling the impact of light on the body clock“. In the 1960’s it was discovered that the human body has an […]
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Naratip Santitissadeekorn is in Norway this week (8-10 June) for the 10th International Workshop on Ensemble Kalman Filtering, held at the Fretheim Hotel, Flåm, Sognefjord (shown in the picture on the left). The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) and its many variants have been proven effective for data assimilation in large models, including those in atmospheric, […]
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The paper “Modelling changes in sleep timing and duration across the lifespan: changes in circadian rhythmicity or sleep homeostasis?” by Anne Skeldon, Gianne Derks, and Derk-Jan Dijk (Surrey Sleep Research Centre) has been accepted for publication in the journal Sleep Medicine Reviews. Sleep patterns change across the lifespan. For example, a delay in sleep timing […]
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Ian Morris is visiting the Mathematics Department at the University of Vienna today (29 May). He is giving a talk at 16:45 in The Budapest-Wien Dynamics Seminar on “The transfer operator for the binary Euclidean algorithm“. A link to the abstract is here. The picture to the left is the new library building at the […]
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