Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The blog on research in mathematics at the University of Surrey

Roulstone article appears in Scientific American

The article “How math helped forecast Hurricane Sandy – the mathematics of predicting a hurricane’s path“, authored by John Norbury (Oxford) and Ian Roulstone, has been published this month in Scientific American.   Many early forecasts for Hurricane Sandy last year predicted that the system would fizzle over the Atlantic. Yet a model developed by researchers […]


The mathematics behind the heat wave

Ian Roulstone, in collaboration with John Norbury (Oxford), has an article on the Huffington Post Blog on 19 July, giving the mathematics behind the heat wave. A heat wave in the UK is usually measured by temperatures reaching in excess of 30 degrees Celsius for more than a week.  The current heat wave – the […]


Aston-Bristow paper on doubling cascades accepted in Nonlinearity

 The paper of Philip Aston and Neil Bristow on “Alternating period doubling cascades” has been accepted for publication in Nonlinearity.  In the paper, they consider period-doubling cascades in two-dimensional iterated maps in which forward and backward period-doubling bifurcations alternate to form an alternating period-doubling cascade. By tracking the eigenvalues of a typical map through such […]


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