Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The paper of Antonio Pittelli, Alessandro Torrielli and Martin Wolf on “Secret symmetries of type IIB superstring theory on AdS_3 x S^3 x M^4” has been selected for inclusion in the Journal of Physics A Highlights of 2014 collection.  A link to the paper is here.  The complete list of J Phys A 2014 highlights […]

Naratip Santitissadeekorn‘s paper, joint with Christopher K.R.T. Jones (North Carolina), has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Weather Review, published by the American Meteorological Society.  The paper is on “Two-stage filtering for joint state parameter estimation“.  It was accepted for publication on 20 January 2015.  A link to the paper is here. The paper […]

Congratulations to Anna Kostianko who passed her PhD confirmation on Thursday 12 February.  Her confirmation report was entitled “Spatial and temporal averaging for nonlinear PDEs“.  The examiners were Jon Bevan and James Grant, and her supervisors are Bin Cheng and Sergey Zelik.

Dr David Schmidtt is visiting the FSG group from 9 February to 13 February hosted by Alessandro Torrielli.  They plan to work on integrable deformations of sigma models.  In addition he gave a talk in the FSG Seminar series on Tuesday 10 February on “Classical origin of quantum group symmetry in lambda-deformed sigma models“.  In […]

Sara Pasquetti is in Switzerland today (Tuesday 10 February) visiting CERN to give a talk in the TH String Theory Seminar on “Holomorphic blocks and q-deformed correlators“.  In the talk she will discuss how supersymmetric partition functions on various compact manifolds in two, three, four and five dimensions can be expressed in terms of a […]

Three Phd students in the Department of Mathematics passed their PhD Confirmation Examination in the pass few weeks. First up was Chrissy Gavin who passed on 26 January.  Her examiners were Carina Dunlop and Rebecca Hoyle, and supervisors are Philip Aston and Gianne Derks.  The topic of her confirmation report was “Analysis of mathematical models […]