Anne Skeldon attended the European Sleep Research Society Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, from 16-20 September. She presented work on “Changes in sleep across the lifespan: using mathematical models to explore hypotheses to explain sleep timing“. The presentation was based on joint work with Derk-Jan Dijk (Surrey Sleep Centre) and Gianne Derks. The website for the […]
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The third meeting of the Applied Geometric Mechanics Network will be held at Brunel University on Friday 3rd October. The theme of this meeting is “Geometric Quantum Mechanics”, with specific topics: geometry of quantum states, quantum integrable systems, reduction by symmetry. The programme is posted here. The AGM network is sponsored by the London Mathematical Society […]
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The paper “Mathematical models of sleep-wake dynamics: comparison of the two process model and a mutual inhibition model“, co-authored by Anne Skeldon, Derk-JanDijk (Surrey Sleep Centre) and Gianne Derks has been published in PloS ONE. It is an open access paper and can be viewed here. The paper shows how recent neuronal models of sleep […]
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The department will host a “Maths and Data Day” joint with welcoming Dr Naratip Santitissadeekorn to the department. This half-day event will feature a range of talks involving exploring mathematical techniques applied to data assimilation and analysis. The organizers are Bin Cheng, Gianne Derks, Ian Roulstone and Matt Turner. The website for the event is […]
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From 16 August to 16 September, James Grant was a Visiting Scholar at St. John’s College, University of Oxford. While in Oxford, he was also an Academic Visitor in the new Mathematical Institute, working on problems in analysis and mathematical relativity with Prof. K.P. Tod (St. John’s College) and Dr. Q. Wang (Mathematical Institute).
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The paper “Secret symmetries of type IIB superstring theory on AdS3 x S3 x M4” by Antonio Pittelli, Alessandro Torrielli, & Martin Wolf has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. The paper establish features of so-called Yangian secret symmetries for AdS3 type IIB superstring backgrounds thus verifying the […]
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