Oleg Kirillov from the Helmholz-Zentrum, Dresden-Rossendorf, is visiting the department this week to interact with members of the Fluid Mechanics and Meteorology Group. During the visit he is giving a seminar on Wednesday 19 March on “Instabilities in magnetized Keplerian flows at low magnetic Prandtl number“. An abstract of the talk can be found here. […]
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Congratulations to Gianne Derks! It was announced today by the University that she has been promoted to Professor of Mathematics with effect from 1st April 2014.
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Congratulations to David Lloyd! It was announced by the University today that he has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Mathematics with effect from 1st April 2014.
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Michele Bartuccelli is visiting Durham University today (Friday 14 March) to give a talk in the Numerical Analysis Seminar Series. The title of the talk is “Sharp constants for the L-infinity norm on the torus and applications to dissipative partial differential equations“. In the talk he will obtain sharp estimates for the constants appearing in […]
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Ian Morris has been awarded a £92.3K EPSRC First Grant on “Distributional analysis of GCD algorithms via the ergodic theory of random dynamical systems.” The project involves the study of algorithms for computing greatest common divisors, a topic of much ongoing interest, due partially to its role in key generation in public-key cryptography. The proposed […]
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James Wright is in Japan at the RIMS Conference – The 6th CREST-SBM International Conference: New Directions in Applied Dynamical Systems, held at Kyoto University during 10-14 March. He gave a talk on “The effects of time dependent dissipation on basins of attraction“, reporting on joint work with Michele Bartuccelli and Guido Gentile (Roma III). […]
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