The paper “Six-dimensional superconformal field theories from principal 3-bundles over twistor space“, co-authored by Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt University) and Martin Wolf has been published in Letters in Mathematical Physics. In the paper they construct manifestly superconformal field theories in six dimensions which contain a non-Abelian tensor multiplet. In particular, they show how principal 3-bundles over […]
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This week (Mon-Wed, 9-11 June) Gianne Derks and Anne Skeldon will be participating in “Universities Week” at the Natural History Museum in London. They are part of the University of Surrey’s exhibit on The Science and Secrets of Sleep. For this exhibit Anne has put together an interactive piece of software that demonstrates the basic […]
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The paper “Fitness consequences of maternal and grandmaternal effects” has been accepted for publication in the journal Ecology and Evolution. The authors are Roshan Prizak (Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Thomas Ezard (Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton) and Rebecca Hoyle. An electronic version of the paper will be available […]
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Gianne Derks was invited to speak at SPT2014 and also gave the opening talk on Monday morning. SPT2014 took place in Cala Conone (Sardinia, Italy) from 25 May to 1 June. The conference is part of a series of conferences on “Symmetry and Perturbation Theory” that have been running since 1996. The website for SPT2014 […]
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The Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) has awarded two conference grants for wave conferences taking place this summer. ONRG awarded a $10000 grant for NW14: the SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, which takes place 11-14 August at Churchill College Cambridge. The NW14 website is here. ONRG awarded an $8000 grant for WW2014: […]
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Congratulations to Katie Cranfield for passing the PhD confirmation review on the 20th May. Her project title is “Bayesian approaches to determining for individuals with type 2 diabetes which therapies are most effective for them personally“. The confirmation was examined by Philip Aston and Jonathan Levy (Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism). Her project […]
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