Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Sara Pasquetti visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University in Sweden during the week of 10 February.  While there she gave a seminar on Wednesday 12 February on “3d and 5d holomorphic blocks and 1-deformed CFT“.

The new “Applied Geometric Mechanics Network” is up and running.  The website is here.  The first  AGM meeting will be held on Friday 16th May on the theme of “geometric fluid dynamics“.  The network links research groups at Brunel, Imperial and Surrey.  Key themes are shape analysis, geometric quantum mechanics, geometric fluid dynamics, and geometric […]

Congratulations to Sandra Kabisch for passing her PhD confirmation examination on Friday 7th February. The title of the project is “Variational approach in material science with applications to liquid crystal elastomers“. Her project is supervised by Jon Bevan.   The examiners were James Adams (Physics) and Sergey Zelik.

Bin Cheng was an invited speaker at the London Mathematical Society sponsored conference on “Mathematics for the Fluid Earth“.  The conference was held 5-7 February at De Morgan House in London.  Bin Cheng spoke on “Time averaging and error estimates for reduced fluid models“.  In his talk Bin discussed the application of time-averaging in getting […]

David Lloyd is visiting Imperial College London today (Thursday 6th February) to give a talk in the DynamIC Seminar.  The title of his talk is “Nucleation of localised Ferrosolitons and Ferro-patterns”. Experiments involving a plate of magnetic fluid in the presence of a magnetic field have shown that it is possible for stable localised spots on […]

Carina Dunlop visited the University of Birmingham on Monday 2nd February to give a talk in the Applied Mathematics Seminar.  The title of the talk was Cells, cell sheets and insect embryos: modelling the role of mechanics in tissue development. It is becoming increasingly clear that mechanical interactions play a crucial role in controlling cellular […]