Congratulations to David Fairbairn on the successful outcome of his EngD viva this morning (Thursday 9 January). The title of his thesis is “Comparing Variational and Ensemble Data Assimilation Methods for Numerical Weather Prediction“, supervised by Andrew Lorenc (Met Office and Visiting Professor at Surrey), Lucia Elghali (CES, Surrey) and Ian Roulstone. David’s examiners were […]
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SIAM Review, the flagship journal of SIAM (the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in the USA), published a review of Roulstone’s book, co-authored with John Norbury, Invisible in the Storm: The role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather, in their December issue. SIAM has 14,000 members worldwide and SIAM Review is sent to all as […]
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Miriam Manoel, an Associate Professor at the Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC) on the São Carlos campus of the University of São Paulo, is visiting the Surrey Department of Mathematics for a year supported by a Brazilian FAPESP “Bolsa Pesquisador no Exterior” (Research Fellowship Abroad) on “Symmetries of Functions on Networks and Mappings on […]
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Sergey Zelik is visiting the Laboratoire Dieudonne at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France. While there he has given a talk in the Geometry and Analysis Seminar on Thursday 19th December with title “Recent progress in attractors for quintic wave equations in bounded domains“. In the talk he presented some new results concerning […]
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Gianne Derks is one of the principal speakers at the London Mathematical Society Prospects in Mathematics Meeting, held 18-20 December at the University of Durham. The meeting is aimed at final year undergraduate (and MSc) students across the UK considering applying for PhD study in Mathematics for entry in 2014. The conference will introduce some […]
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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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