In a talk on Order within Chaos: Big data and weather forecasting, ECMWF Director of Research Erland Kallen and Surrey Mathematics HoD Ian Roulstone join forces at the British Science Festival on Monday 7 September to describe and explain to delegates how weather forecasters identify order over chaos. They will present the latest developments in […]
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Daniel Ratliff is attending the British Science Festival 2015 this week, 7-10 September in Bradford. Daniel was one of two PhD students in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences to be selected for sponsorship. The award includes accommodation for five nights, travel, and free tickets to a selection of events and the student social.
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The paper “Geometry and symmetry of quantum and classical-quantum variational principles” by Esther Bonet Luz and Cesare Tronci has been published online today by the Journal of Mathematical Physics. The paper presents the geometric setting of quantum variational principles and extends it to comprise the interaction between classical and quantum degrees of freedom. The article […]
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Congratulations to Anton Savostianov who passed his Phd viva today. The external examiner was Michael Ruzhansky (Imperial) and the internal examiner was Claudia Wulff. Anton’s PhD project is on “Strichartz estimates and smooth attractors of dissipative hyperbolic equations“, supervised by Sergey Zelik. Anton will take up a postdoc position in France in the autumn.
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Donald Keedwell‘s 438 page book “Latin Squares and Their Applications“, co-authored with Jozsef Denes (Budapest), is published this month by North-Holland. A link to book on amazon is here. The book is the long-awaited update and reissue of the author’s seminal book on the subject from 1974. Latin squares, or sets of mutually orthogonal latin […]
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Claudia Wulff‘s paper, co-authored with Marcel Oliver (Jacobs University, Germany), on “Exponentially accurate Hamiltonian embeddings of symplectic A-stable Runge-Kutta methods for Hamiltonian semilinear evolution equations“, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A final-form pre-print can be found here. In this paper it is proved that a class […]
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