NERC is to fund the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) for a further five years, signing a new contract worth £23m with the University of Leicester, which began on 1st October 2014. Surrey is part of the NCEO team, with Ian Roulstone as node leader. NCEO was set up in 2008 to get the most out […]
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Following on from his talk at the HEA STEM Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Philip Aston has written an article for the IMA publication Mathematics Today about the challenges associated with teaching Matlab programming to Mathematics students. Programming is an essential skill that many students will use when they enter employment, but many of them […]
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Andrea Prinsloo is visiting the Mathematics Department at the University of Durham today and giving the High Energy Physics Lunchtime Seminar on “Giant gravitons in an AdS3/CFT2 Correspondence“. In the talk she describes classes of supersymmetric D1 and D5 branes, known as giant gravitons, in IIB string theory on AdS3 x S3 x S3 x […]
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Michele Bartuccelli and Bin Cheng have been awarded an LMS grant of £1.5K for a visit of Professor Paolo Secchi from the University of Brescia (Italy). Professor Paolo Secchi is a very well known mathematician working in the areas of analysis of solutions of PDEs, Mathematical Theory of Fluid Dynamics such as the Navier-Stokes and the Euler equations, Magnetohydrodynamics […]
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Jonathan Deane has been awarded a grant of £900 by the London Mathematical Society to fund a visit of Professor Guido Gentile (ROMA TRE) to the University of Surrey. Professor Gentile is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey. The purpose of the visit is research collaboration with Jonathan and Michele Bartuccelli to […]
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Peter Hydon is giving a Mathematics Colloquium talk at the University of Glasgow today, Friday 10th October. His talk is on “Conservation laws: from differential to difference“. Famously, Noether’s (First) Theorem uses symmetries of a variational problem to generate conservation laws of the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations. It is less well-known that one can construct conservation […]
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