Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Alessandro Torrielli visited the Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare at the University of Turin this week, giving a talk on Monday 14 December on “Lower dimensional AdS/CFT correspondences and their integrability“.  In the talk he gave an overview of AdS/CFT correspondences in dimensions lower than or equal to 5, with emphasis on their integrable structure. […]

Congratulations to Jon Pennant who passed his PhD viva today with minor corrections.  The title of his thesis is “On infinite energy solutions to dissipative PDEs in unbounded domains” and the work was supervised by Sergey Zelik.  The external examiner was Thierry Gallay from the University of Grenoble and the internal examiner was Claudia Wulff.

Gianne Derks is co-organiser of a week-long workshop on Mathematical Pharmacology, held at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, from 20 November to 4 December.  The other organisers are Pinky Dua (Cambridge), Piet Hein van der Graaf (Leiden), Coen van Hasselt (Leiden), and Vivi Rottschafer (Leiden).  The workshop brings together mathematicians and pharmacologists from […]

Ian Morris visited the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, yesterday (Thursday 26 November) to give a talk in the seminar of the Number Theory Group. His talk was on “The central limit theorem for the number of steps in the Euclidean algorithm“.  Abstract: The number of steps required by the Euclidean algorithm to find the […]

Congratulations to Hayley O’Farrell for passing her PhD viva today (Wednesday 25 November).  The title of her thesis is “Temporal modelling of disease outbreaks using state space and delay differential equations“, and the project was supervised by Janet Godolphin and Stephen Gourley at Surrey, and co-supervised by Mark Arnold at APHA.  The project was sponsored […]

Congratulations to Kavita Patni who passed her PhD viva today (Wednesday 25 November).  The title of her thesis is “Damped Navier-Stokes equations in 2D” and the project was supervised by Sergey Zelik.  The external examiner was John Gibbon (Imperial) and the internal examiner was Bin Cheng.