Alessandro Torrielli is attending the IX AVOGADRO Meeting on String Theory, Supergravity and Gauge Theories, which is being held this week (18-20 December) at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati in Trieste, Italy. At this conference he is giving an invited review talk on “Integrability in AdS/CFT“. An abstract of the talk as well as […]
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Alessandro Torrielli visited the University of Bologna last week and gave a Theory Group Seminar in the Department of Physics on Tuesday 10 December. The talk was on “Yangians, massless modes and the AdS-3 string“. In the talk he reviewed recent progress in understanding the exact scattering theory for the massive sector of strings propagating […]
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Rebecca Hoyle is at a conference this week on “Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Nongenetic effects“. The conference is held from 9 December through 13 December at the Lorentz Center, which is associated with the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. The website for the conference is here.
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Bin Cheng was a Visiting Fellow at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, during the first semester, to participate in the programme “Mathematics for the Planet Earth“. The website for the programme is here.
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A NERC grant of £74k on “Exploiting new observations and data assimilation techniques for improved forecasting of convective precipitation” as been awarded to the Fluid Mechanics and Meteorology Group. The PI on the grant is Ian Roulstone. The project funds a PhD studentship to work on the project in partnership with the UK Met Office […]
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The Science and Technology Facilities Council has awarded a consolidation grant of £271 k to the Fields, Strings and Geometry Group, entitled Fundamental Implications of Fields, Strings and Gravity. The Principal Investigator is Kostas Sfetsos, and the co-investigators are the entire FSG team (Grant, Gutowski, McOrist, Pasquetti, Torrielli, Wolf). The proposal covers two major […]
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