On Thursday and Friday, 19-20 February, Dr Agnese Bissi from the Mathematical Institute, Oxford, visited the FSG group, and gave a 10-hour series of lectures on “Conformal bootstrap meets supersymmetry“. The topics covered included conformal symmetry in d>2 dimensions, unitary representations of the conformal group, 2 and 3 point correlation functions, crossing symmetry and the […]
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Philip Aston, together with his collaborators Dr Manasi Nandi and Dr Mark Christie at Kings’ College London, filed a patent application in February 2014. Over the past year, they have done more work which has been added to the patent and the PCT application was filed on 16th February this year. The patent covers the […]
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Gianne Derks is visiting the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh today (19 February) to give a talk in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar series. Her talk is on “Existence and stability of stationary fronts in inhomogeneous wave equations“. An abstract for the talk can be found here, and the announcement of […]
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The paper of Antonio Pittelli, Alessandro Torrielli and Martin Wolf on “Secret symmetries of type IIB superstring theory on AdS_3 x S^3 x M^4” has been selected for inclusion in the Journal of Physics A Highlights of 2014 collection. A link to the paper is here. The complete list of J Phys A 2014 highlights […]
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Naratip Santitissadeekorn‘s paper, joint with Christopher K.R.T. Jones (North Carolina), has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Weather Review, published by the American Meteorological Society. The paper is on “Two-stage filtering for joint state parameter estimation“. It was accepted for publication on 20 January 2015. A link to the paper is here. The paper […]
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Congratulations to Anna Kostianko who passed her PhD confirmation on Thursday 12 February. Her confirmation report was entitled “Spatial and temporal averaging for nonlinear PDEs“. The examiners were Jon Bevan and James Grant, and her supervisors are Bin Cheng and Sergey Zelik.
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