Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The paper “The effects of time-dependent dissipation on the basins of attraction for the pendulum with oscillating support“, co-authored by James Wright, Michele Bartuccelli, and Guido Gentile, has been accepted for publication in the journal Nonlinear Dynamics.  The paper considers a pendulum with vertically oscillating support and time-dependent damping coefficient which varies until reaching a finite […]

Professor Lara Anderson is visiting the department this week funded by a London Mathematical Society Scheme 2 grant.  Her principal research area is mathematical string theory and she is a member of the particle theory group in the department of physics at Virginia Tech.  Her visit is hosted by Jock McOrist.  She is giving a […]

The first meeting of the  Applied Geometric Mechanics Network is held at the University of Surrey on Friday 16 May.  This meeting is the first in a series of three associated with the London Mathematical Society funded AGM network.  The theme of this first meeting is Geometric Fluid Dynamics.  The programme, abstracts and timetable can […]

Peter Hydon is visiting the University of British Columbia in Vancouver this week for the conference Symmetry Methods, Applications, and Related Fields, which celebrates the work of George Bluman. Peter is on the Scientific Organizing Committee and will be speaking on “Conservation laws: from differential to difference“. Abstract: Conservation laws express fundamental properties that are […]

Gianne Derks visited the Mathematics Department at the University of Twente in the Netherlands on Friday 09 May.  She gave a talk on “Mathematical analysis of human sleep-wake dynamics“, reporting on joint work with Anne Skeldon and Derk-Jan Dijk.  An abstract follows.  Human sleep-wake dynamics is often modelled by multi-oscillator systems. Recent research has shown […]

Philip Aston recently attended the HEA STEM Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2014: Enhancing the STEM Student Journey which was held in Edinburgh. He gave a talk on “Using Computer Assisted Assessment to Enhance Learning of Matlab Skills“, which is based on his experience of teaching the Modelling and Experiment module to first year students. […]