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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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David Lloyd visited the Department of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde yesterday (Tuesday 10 November) and gave a talk in the Joint CMIM and NASC Seminar series. The talk was on “Exploring data assimilation issues for an urban crime model” and an abstract can be found at the above link. A key part of […]
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The London Mathematical Society has funded a new network in “Mathematics in Life Sciences“, linking the Biosystems group at Surrey with similar groups in Nottingham and Southampton. The leader of the network is Gianne Derks, and the node leaders are Daniele Avitabile (Nottingham) and Rebecca Hoyle (Southampton). The network is expected to have meetings in […]
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