Congratulations to Dan Catlin for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Monday 30th October, and the examiners were Ian Brunton-Smith (Sociology, Surrey) and Anne Skeldon. The title of his project is “The network dynamics of international drug trafficking”. His project is supervised by Giulia Berlusconi and David Lloyd. The image below shows […]
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This week (6-10 November) the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge is hosting a workshop on “Machine learning toolkits and integrability techniques in gravity“. Alessandro Torrielli gave the opening lecture on Monday morning at 10am on “The strange world of AdS2 integrability” (see link here for abstract). A link to the workshop website […]
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The article “My mathematical model cautions Rishi Sunak against shifting to the right ahead of the next election“, by Dorje Brody, has been published last Friday (3 November) in The Conversation. The article, and Dorje’s theory, suggest that the time before the next general election in the UK would not be well spent shifting his […]
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This week (31 October to 2 November) Tom Bridges visited the Coastal, Ocean, and Sediment Transport (COAST) Laboratory (link here) at the University of Plymouth. He was joined in the visit by Hamid Alemi Ardakani, from the University of Exeter. Their host for the visit was Simone Michele. Hamid, Simone, and Tom have a network […]
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The “International Conference on Nonlocal and Nonlinear Problems” is being held this week (23-28 October). The conference is hosted by the Peoples Friendship University of Russia and broadcast from Moscow. Sergey Zelik gave an invited talk on Wednesday on “Determining functionals and finite-dimensional reduction for dissipative PDEs revisited”. A link to the conference website with […]
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Cesare Tronci was on a fact-finding and marketing visit to India on behalf of the University last week (16-20 October). During his trip, he was invited for a research visit to the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS). His host for the visit was Joseph Samuel. Cesare gave an informal talk with the title “Dynamics […]
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