Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The Surrey team working on underpinning theory for ocean wave energy harvesting (Hamid Alemi Ardakani, Tom Bridges, and Matt Turner) visited the headquarters of OWEL (Offshore Wave Energy Limited) in Bristol on Friday 21 June.  The purpose of the meeting was to find out the latest developments at OWEL, and to update them on recent […]

The Surrey team working on underpinning theory for ocean wave energy harvesting (Hamid Alemi Ardakani, Tom Bridges, and Matt Turner) visited the headquarters of OWEL (Offshore Wave Energy Limited) in Bristol on Friday 21 June.  The purpose of the meeting was to find out the latest developments at OWEL, and to update them on recent […]

Bin Cheng arrived in Shanghai on Thursday 20 June for a visit to the Insitute of Natural Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  The institute website is here.  While there he is also giving a talk at the Second PRIMA Conference which is held 24-28 June. PRIMA is the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association.

Vakhtang Putkaradze, Centennial Professor in Mathematics at the University of Alberta in Canada, is visiting the department for the week of 17-21 June.  Vakhtang works on a range of problems in geometric mechanics from the nanoscale to the macroscale.  His host is Cesare Tronci.  During his visit he gave a talk on Wednesday in the […]

 Mark Roberts’ paper, “Modeling the gravitational potential of a nonspherical asteroid” has appeared online in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics which is published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  The co-authors are Beth Herrera-Sucarrat and Phil Palmer of the Surrey Space Centre.  The paper gives a simple and very general approximation […]

Sara Pasquetti is visiting Korea to attend and speak at 3 conferences.  The main conference is STRINGS 2013.  This conference has grown, since the 1980s, to be the largest and most important conference in this field.  Sara is giving a plenary lecture on “3d&5d partition functions as q-CFT correlators”.  The website for the conference is […]