Congratulations to Roberto D’Onofrio for defending his PhD thesis at the University of Milano Bicocca today (Friday 24 May). The members of the committee were Milvia Francesca Rossini (Bicocca), Francesco De Montis (Cagliari), and Cesare Tronci. The title of the thesis is “Singularities in fluid dynamics: from the classics approach to Monge-Ampere geometry”. Roberto‘s project […]
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Anne Skeldon is in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week (18-22 May) to attend and speak at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR, link here). Anne points out that there are not too many mathematicians at these meetings so it a privilege to get to speak. She spoke on […]
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A 5-minute promotional video, prepared by the authors, has been posted on the Journal of Biological Rhythms website, to showcase the paper “Mathematical analysis of light-sensitivity related challenges in assessment of the intrinsic period of the human circadian pacemaker“. The authors are Imran Usmani, Derk-Jan Dijk, and Anne Skeldon. The paper was a result of […]
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Dave Lloyd is visiting the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds today (Monday 20 May) to give a talk in the Applied Mathematics Seminar Series (link here). His talk is on “Snakes on the plane: developing a theory of multidimensional localised patterns“. His hosts for the visit are Cédric Beaume, Alistair Rucklidge, and […]
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The book “Integrability using the Sine-Gordon and Thirring Duality“, with sole author Alessandro Torrielli, has been published by IOP (link to IOP page). A synopsis of the book follows. Quantum field theory is typically not solvable in closed form and represents a very complex and extremely accurate description of elementary particle physics. Integrable quantum field […]
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Aravind Kumar Kamaraj joined Surrey this month, taking up a 2-year Mathematics / Surrey Sleep Research Centre position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He is joining an interdisciplinary team led at Surrey by Derk-Jan Dijk (Director, Surrey Sleep Research Centre) investigating sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances in dementia (link here). Aravind will be jointly supervised by Anne […]
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