The paper “Equivalent variational approaches to biaxial liquid crystal dynamics” co-authored by Alexander Close and Cesare Tronci has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A. The arXiv verson of the paper can be downloaded here. Within the framework of liquid crystal flows, the Qian & Sheng model for […]
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Anne Skeldon visited the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Zurich on Thursday-Friday 8-9 October to give a seminar on “Modelling changes in sleep timing and duration across the lifespan: changes in circadian rhythmicity or sleep homeostasis?” The talk was based on joint work with Derk-Jan Dijk (Surrey Sleep Research Centre) and Gianne Derks.
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Antonio Pittelli and Martin Wolf visited the Theoretical Physics Group in Padova during the first week of October for a collaborative visit with Prof Dmitri Sorokin. During the visit Martin gave a seminar on 30 September on self-dual higher gauge theory. A link to the Padova group is here.
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The paper “The pendulum-slosh problem: Simulation using a time-dependent conformal mapping” by Matt Turner, Tom Bridges and Hamid Alemi Ardakani has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluids and Structures. The paper investigates coupled fluid/vessel sloshing motion numerically in a rectangular vessel suspended by a rigid pivoting pole. The results simulate the motion […]
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The paper “Integrable open spin-chains in AdS 3/CFT 2 correspondence“, co-authored by Andrea Prinsloo, Vidas Regelskis and Alessandro Torrielli, has been accepted for publication in Physical Review D. The arXiv version can be found here.
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Congratulations to Fabrizio Nieri, who passed his PhD viva on Tuesday 29 September with a confident defence. The title of his thesis is “Integrable structures in supersymmetric gauge theories” and the work was supervised by Sara Pasquetti and Martin Wolf. The external examiner was Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor (Paris) and the internal examiner was James Grant.
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