Congratulations to Phd student Michelle Grant for passing her PhD confirmation examination today (Friday 24 April). The confirmation report was on “The application of data assimilation schemes close to a bifurcation in a noisy system“. The examiners were David Lloyd and Naratip Santitissadeekom. Her supervisors are Anne Skeldon and Ian Roulstone.
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Gianne Derks attended the BioDynamics Workshop 2015 which was held in Edinburgh on 15-17 April. This workshop was the second in a series of international workshops designed to bring together biologists, mathematicians, clinicians, physicists, and computer scientists who are interested in dynamical systems in the biological and medical sciences. At the conference Gianne presented a […]
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The paper of Ian Morris, co-authored with Jairo Bochi (Rio de Janiero), on “Continuity properties of the lower spectral radius“, has appeared in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. A link to the paper is here. The lower spectral radius, or joint spectral subradius, of a set of real d×d matrices is defined to […]
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Stephen Gourley visited the Department of Applied Mathematics at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 5 April to 14 April for research interaction with Prof Yijun Lou. Stephen and Yijun are developing new approaches to modelling competition among the larvae of disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes. If larvae grow at a rate that depends on how many other […]
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Tom Bridges is attending a week long meeting on the “Mathematical Theory of Water Waves” at the Mathematics Research Institute at Oberwolfach” located in the hills of the black forest in southern Germany, during 12-18 April. At the conference he is giving a talk on “Phase dynamics in the theory of water waves”.
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Gianne Derks visited the Universiteit Twente in Enschede on Friday 27 March to give one of the four invited lectures at the Retirement Symposium of Professor E. (Brenny) van Groesen. Her talk was on “Viscosity-induced instability for Euler and averaged Euler equations in a circular domain“. On 25-26 March she visited the Universiteit Leiden for […]
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