Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Dr David Schmidtt is visiting the FSG group from 9 February to 13 February hosted by Alessandro Torrielli.  They plan to work on integrable deformations of sigma models.  In addition he gave a talk in the FSG Seminar series on Tuesday 10 February on “Classical origin of quantum group symmetry in lambda-deformed sigma models“.  In […]

Sara Pasquetti is in Switzerland today (Tuesday 10 February) visiting CERN to give a talk in the TH String Theory Seminar on “Holomorphic blocks and q-deformed correlators“.  In the talk she will discuss how supersymmetric partition functions on various compact manifolds in two, three, four and five dimensions can be expressed in terms of a […]

Three Phd students in the Department of Mathematics passed their PhD Confirmation Examination in the pass few weeks. First up was Chrissy Gavin who passed on 26 January.  Her examiners were Carina Dunlop and Rebecca Hoyle, and supervisors are Philip Aston and Gianne Derks.  The topic of her confirmation report was “Analysis of mathematical models […]

Ian Roulstone is visiting the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds today (Wednesday 28th January) to give a talk in the Geometry Seminar.  The title of his talk is “Kahler geometry and the Navier-Stokes equations“. A link to the announcement is here.

Martin Wolf is visiting the Mathematics Department at the University of Glasgow for 3 days (26-28 January) this week to give a talk in the Integrable Systems and Mathematical Physics Seminar series.  His talk is on “Self-dual higher gauge theory“.  The talk will review recent work on the formulation of self-dual higher (categorified) gauge theory […]

Dr Alessandro Sfondrini and Dr  Marco Baggio are visiting the Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, hosted by Alessandro Torrielli, from 19 January to 2 February.  Alessandro is from the Quantum Field and String Theory Group at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and Marco is from the Institute for Theoretical Physics at ETH in Zurich.  During […]