Ian Morris is in Canada this week (19-23 January) attending and speaking at the BANFF International Mathematics Research Centre in the Canadian mountains just west of Calgary. The conference is on “Random Dynamical Systems and Multiplicative Ergodic Theorems“. On Thursday Ian spoke on “The transfer operator for the binary Euclidean algorithm“. The video of his […]
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The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is marking its 150th anniversary in 2015. To commemorate this historic occasion, the Society is launching a year-long programme of events aimed at celebrating the contributions of mathematics to the UK, looking back over 150 years of achievements and looking forward to exciting opportunities in mathematics for future generations. The […]
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Andrea Fontanella started his PhD project this month with the Fields, Strings and Geometry group, supervised by Jan Gutowski. The project title is “Geometry of supersymmetric solutions“. Andrea was an undergraduate at the Universita degli studi de Padova, which is in the northeast corner of Italy. During his undergraduate work he was an ERASMUS student at […]
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Sergey Zelik gave a series of lectures at the Maxwell Institute in Edinburgh in 2011 and the lecture notes from that talk have now been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The tittle of the paper is “Inertial manifolds and finite-dimensional reduction for dissipative PDEs“. The notes are devoted to the problem […]
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Ian Roulstone was in Phoenix Arizona last week to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Sociey. At the meeting he was formally awarded the 2015 Louis J Battan Award for his book “Invisible in the Storm: the role of Mathematics in understanding weather“. The announcement of the award is here.
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Last week, Sara Pasquetti visited SISSA: Scuola internazionale Superiure di Studi Avanzati in Trieste, Italy. On Thursday 8th January she gave a talk in the Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar on “Holomorphic blocks and compact manifolds“. In recent years a plethora of new exact results for supersymmetric gauge theories formulated on compact manifolds have been obtained […]
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