Congratulations to Peter Anthony for passing his PhD viva voce examination today, Wednesday 26th February. His thesis title is “Infinite energy solutions for Navier-Stokes equations in a strip“. The external examiner was Professor Alain Miranville of the Universite de Poitiers, the internal examiner was Bin Cheng, and the Chair was Tom Bridges. Peter’s PhD project […]
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Stephen Gourley is an invited speaker at the “Workshop on Differential-Delay equations: theory and applications” which is held at University College London on 26-27 February. Stephen’s talk is on “Resistance to larvicides in mosquito populations and how it can benefit malaria control”. The website for the workshop is here.
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A showcase of Systems Biology research at the University of Surrey was held on Monday 23rd to Tuesday 24th February in the Duke of Kent building. Philip Aston, Rebecca Hoyle, Anne Skeldon and Matt Turner spoke on behalf of mathematics. Their talks were on “Mathematical modelling of DNA repair” (Aston), “Evolution of maternal effects” (Hoyle), […]
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Fabrizio Nieri, a PhD student in Mathematics, gave a talk on Tuesday 11 February at Pisa on “3d and 5d gauge theory partition functions as deformed CFT correlators“. Fabrizio is supervised by Sara Pasquetti and Martin Wolf. The announcement and abstract for the talk is here.
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Sara Pasquetti visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University in Sweden during the week of 10 February. While there she gave a seminar on Wednesday 12 February on “3d and 5d holomorphic blocks and 1-deformed CFT“.
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The new “Applied Geometric Mechanics Network” is up and running. The website is here. The first AGM meeting will be held on Friday 16th May on the theme of “geometric fluid dynamics“. The network links research groups at Brunel, Imperial and Surrey. Key themes are shape analysis, geometric quantum mechanics, geometric fluid dynamics, and geometric […]
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