David Lloyd was awarded a London Mathematical Society Scheme 2 grant (award date 2 March, award amount £1500). The grant funds a visit of Michael Henderson (IBM, retired) to Surrey, as well as visits to Bristol, Imperial, and Manchester to give talks there. At Surrey, Michael will give a talk at the Geometry, Space, Surrey […]
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Cesare Tronci is a Visiting Professor for two months in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University Singapore this spring (8 March to 8 May). His host for the visit is François Gay-Balmaz. The purpose of the visit is research interaction with Francois, Tudor Ratiu (also a Visiting Professor), and Juan-Pablo Ortega (Professor […]
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The article “Funding climate projects: our financial model can better illustrate long-term value“, by Dorje Brody, is published today (Tuesday 24 February) in The Conversation (link here). As a mathematician researching in finance, Dorje shows how to use a financial model called “social discounting” to value the long-term benefits of environmental projects far into the […]
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The paper “Decoherence from universal tomographic measurements“, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Rishindra Melanathuru, has been published this week in Physical Review Research (open access link here). In the paper, the effect of decoherence is analyzed by studying the evolution of Stratonovich-Weyl quasiprobability distributions on the state space of the system. It is shown that […]
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Congratulations to Rachel Bernasconi for passing her PhD viva! The viva took place on Friday 20 February. Rachel‘s thesis was on “A functional anatomy of sleep/wake modelling.” Her examiners were Prof Steve Coombes (Nottingham) and Prof Victoria Booth (University of Michigan), with Werner Bauer chairing the viva. Rachel’s principal supervisor was Anne Skeldon with second supervisor Polina Vytnova. The photo below […]
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Emir Ahmed, a final-year undergraduate in mathematics, was on placement last year at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, supervised at NPL by Dr Ciaran Bench. A faculty-wide contest was held for the best placement student last year, and Emir was the winner. He is the first mathematician in over 5 years to win this […]
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