Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Ian Roulstone is visiting the University of Reading today (Wednesday 21 May) to give a talk in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Lecture Series.  This series of lectures is organised with the aim of finding common ground and research interests and foster interaction within the school.  Ian’s talk is on “Differential geometry of the semi-geostrophic […]

A summer bursary has been awarded to Bin Cheng by the London Mathematical Society to support an undergraduate summer project of Timothy Burchell.  The title of the project is “The rotating shallow water equations evolving on a sphere“.  This system is widely used as a testing example for numerical algorithms as well as theoretical studies […]

The paper “The effects of time-dependent dissipation on the basins of attraction for the pendulum with oscillating support“, co-authored by James Wright, Michele Bartuccelli, and Guido Gentile, has been accepted for publication in the journal Nonlinear Dynamics.  The paper considers a pendulum with vertically oscillating support and time-dependent damping coefficient which varies until reaching a finite […]

Professor Lara Anderson is visiting the department this week funded by a London Mathematical Society Scheme 2 grant.  Her principal research area is mathematical string theory and she is a member of the particle theory group in the department of physics at Virginia Tech.  Her visit is hosted by Jock McOrist.  She is giving a […]

The first meeting of the  Applied Geometric Mechanics Network is held at the University of Surrey on Friday 16 May.  This meeting is the first in a series of three associated with the London Mathematical Society funded AGM network.  The theme of this first meeting is Geometric Fluid Dynamics.  The programme, abstracts and timetable can […]

Peter Hydon is visiting the University of British Columbia in Vancouver this week for the conference Symmetry Methods, Applications, and Related Fields, which celebrates the work of George Bluman. Peter is on the Scientific Organizing Committee and will be speaking on “Conservation laws: from differential to difference“. Abstract: Conservation laws express fundamental properties that are […]