The conference Mathematics of String Theory 2014 will be held 2-3 June 2014 at King’s College London. This conference is a follow-up to the SMUK event held in 2013 at Surrey. Jock McOrist and Martin Wolf are members of the organising committee. It is sponsored by the London Mathematical Society. The goal of the workshop is […]
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The paper “Alternating Period Doubling Cascades” by Philip Aston and his PhD student Neil Bristow has been included in the Highlights of 2013 of the journal Nonlinearity. The paper studies cascades of period-doubling bifurcations that alternate in direction in two-dimensional maps. By tracking the eigenvalues of a typical map throughout such cascades it is shown […]
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The Clay Mathematics Institute will be hosting a one-week. Monday 7 April to Friday 11 April, conference on Geometry and Fluids, organised by Jock McOrist, Ian Roulstone, and Martin Wolf. The conference will be held in the Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematics Department, University of Oxford. In addition, Jock, Ian, Martin, as well as Bin Cheng, […]
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The department is now a member of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI). ECMI is a consortium of academic institutions and industrial companies that acts co-operatively with the following aims: (a) to promote and support the use of mathematical models in any activity of social or economic importance; (b) to educate industrial mathematicians […]
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The abstract “Improving carbon cycle models using inverse modelling techniques with in-situ measurements and satellite observations“, co-authored by Sylvain Delahaies, Ian Roulstone and Nancy Nichols (Reading), has been accepted for presentation at the 2014 general assembly of the European Geosciences Union, to be held in Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May. The session information […]
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Stephen Gourley has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year. The Fellowship frees up Stephen from teaching and administration for the year and provides travel funds for research interaction with colleagues in North America. The title of the project is”Larval competition and its intriguing role in malaria spread“. A summary follows. […]
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