Mark Roberts has been appointed Rector of the new branch of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) that has opened in Tanzania. This branch is the fifth centre of AIMS. The centre will bring together top global scholars in mathematics and science to teach and research with Africa’s brightest students. Mark will be splitting […]
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The paper “S-matrix for the massive and massless modes of the AdS_2 x S^2 superstring“, co-authored by Ben Hoare (Humboldt University), Antonio Pittelli, and Alessandro Torrielli, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics. In the paper they derive the exact S-matrix for the integrable system associated to light-cone gauge string […]
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Carina Dunlop has been awarded a £120k EPSRC First Grant on the topic of “Modelling the mechanics of epithelial sheets on soft substrates: nonlinearity, feedback, and dissipation“. The 24 month project starts on 1st January 2015. The aim of the project is to develop a novel mathematical model for soft tissue-matrix interactions that accounts for […]
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NERC is to fund the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) for a further five years, signing a new contract worth £23m with the University of Leicester, which began on 1st October 2014. Surrey is part of the NCEO team, with Ian Roulstone as node leader. NCEO was set up in 2008 to get the most out […]
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Following on from his talk at the HEA STEM Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Philip Aston has written an article for the IMA publication Mathematics Today about the challenges associated with teaching Matlab programming to Mathematics students. Programming is an essential skill that many students will use when they enter employment, but many of them […]
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Andrea Prinsloo is visiting the Mathematics Department at the University of Durham today and giving the High Energy Physics Lunchtime Seminar on “Giant gravitons in an AdS3/CFT2 Correspondence“. In the talk she describes classes of supersymmetric D1 and D5 branes, known as giant gravitons, in IIB string theory on AdS3 x S3 x S3 x […]
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