On 12th March 2014, James Grant’s student Annegret Burtscher, graduated with her PhD sub auspiciis praesidentis in the University of Vienna. Promotio sub auspicii is an honour reserved for students who have passed all examinations with distinction from high school through to their PhD. They attend a special graduation ceremony, and are presented with their […]
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Gianne Derks is visiting the Mathematical Institute and the Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research at the University of Leiden for three months. During her visit she presented a series of two lectures in the Analysis Lunch Seminar Series. On Monday 3rd March she presented her work on “A minimal model of DNA dynamics in […]
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Martin Wolf’s paper, co-authored with Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt University), has appeared in Communications in Mathematical Physics. The title is “Non-Abelian tensor multiplet equation from twistor space“, with abstract: the paper establishes a Penrose–Ward transform yielding a bijection between holomorphic principal 2-bundles over a twistor space and non-Abelian self-dual tensor fields on six-dimensional flat space-time. Extending […]
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Ian Morris visited the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London on Thursday 20 March to give a talk in the Dynamical Systems Seminar. His talk was on “A random dynamical model for the binary Euclidean algorithm“. An abstract follows: the binary Euclidean algorithm is a variation on the classical Euclidean algorithm which is designed […]
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Carina Dunlop and Rebecca Hoyle are attending the Forces in Biology Workshop at the University of Warwick on Wednesday and Thursday 19-20 March. This Workshop is the first of a series of Focussed Workshops which will consider several themes of the EPSRC NetworkPlus in ‘Understanding the Physics of Life’, which have developed through intensive discussion […]
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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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