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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A Surrey team (Bin Cheng, Hamid Alemi Ardakani, Matthew Bailey, Carina Dunlop, Dave Lloyd, Ian Roulstone, Naratip Santitissadeekorn, Anne Skeldon, and Matt Turner) is attending B(A)MC 2015: the 4th joint British Mathematical Colloquium and British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, from 30 March to 2 April 2015, in Cambridge. Details of talks and full programme can be […]
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Cesare Tronci attended the 2015 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference held at New York University the week of 16 March. At the conference he presented a poster on “Hybrid Vlasov-MHD models” with co-presenters E Tassi (CPT, Marseille), E. Camporeale (CWI Amsterdam) and, P.J. Morrison (UT Austin). A link to the presentation is here. This week Cesare […]
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