Daniel Ratliff started his PhD project today (1st July) on the theory of water waves, joining the Fluid Mechanics and Meteorology Research Group. Daniel was awarded a First Class MMath degree in mathematics from the University of East Anglia. His MMath project was on “The existence and stability of hydrodynamic rogue wave solutions“, supervised by […]
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Martin Wolf is attending the Workshop on Higher Gauge Theory and Higher Quantization held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, on 26-27 June. At the workshop he gave the opening lecture, on the first day, on “Self dual higher gauge theory“. The website for the workshop is here.
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Jon Bevan visited the Department of Mathematics at the University of Sussex on Monday 2nd June to give a talk in the Analysis and PDEs Seminar series. The talk was on “A stability criterion for the radial cavitating map in nonlinear elasticity“. Abstract and further information can be found at here.
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Congratulations to Antonio Pittelli on passing his PhD Confirmation Examination yesterday (Thursday 19 June). Antonio presented his work on “The secret symmetry of the AdS3 x S3 x M4 superstring” to his examiners Jock McOrist and Cesare Tronci. Antonio’s supervisors are Alessandro Torrielli and Martin Wolf.
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Rebecca Hoyle was a speaker at the London Meeting on Evolutionary Dynamics and Complexity held at City University on Friday 13 June. The aim of the meeting was to bring together researchers in the greater London area working on modelling of evolutionary dynamics and complexity, and also to explore the idea of a London Network […]
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Anton Savostianov, a 3rd year PhD student at Surrey, supervised by Sergey Zelik, has been shortlisted for the Student Paper Competition at the 10th American Institute of Mathematics Conference, to be held in Madrid in July. Anton will speak on “Strichartz estimates and smooth attractors for wave equations with fractional damping in bounded domains“. The […]
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