A showcase of Systems Biology research at the University of Surrey was held on Monday 23rd to Tuesday 24th February in the Duke of Kent building. Philip Aston, Rebecca Hoyle, Anne Skeldon and Matt Turner spoke on behalf of mathematics. Their talks were on “Mathematical modelling of DNA repair” (Aston), “Evolution of maternal effects” (Hoyle), […]
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Fabrizio Nieri, a PhD student in Mathematics, gave a talk on Tuesday 11 February at Pisa on “3d and 5d gauge theory partition functions as deformed CFT correlators“. Fabrizio is supervised by Sara Pasquetti and Martin Wolf. The announcement and abstract for the talk is here.
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Sara Pasquetti visited the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University in Sweden during the week of 10 February. While there she gave a seminar on Wednesday 12 February on “3d and 5d holomorphic blocks and 1-deformed CFT“.
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The new “Applied Geometric Mechanics Network” is up and running. The website is here. The first AGM meeting will be held on Friday 16th May on the theme of “geometric fluid dynamics“. The network links research groups at Brunel, Imperial and Surrey. Key themes are shape analysis, geometric quantum mechanics, geometric fluid dynamics, and geometric […]
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Congratulations to Sandra Kabisch for passing her PhD confirmation examination on Friday 7th February. The title of the project is “Variational approach in material science with applications to liquid crystal elastomers“. Her project is supervised by Jon Bevan. The examiners were James Adams (Physics) and Sergey Zelik.
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Bin Cheng was an invited speaker at the London Mathematical Society sponsored conference on “Mathematics for the Fluid Earth“. The conference was held 5-7 February at De Morgan House in London. Bin Cheng spoke on “Time averaging and error estimates for reduced fluid models“. In his talk Bin discussed the application of time-averaging in getting […]
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