Stephen Gourley has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year. The Fellowship frees up Stephen from teaching and administration for the year and provides travel funds for research interaction with colleagues in North America. The title of the project is”Larval competition and its intriguing role in malaria spread“. A summary follows. […]
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Sara Pasquetti is spending this semester as an Emmy Noether Fellow at the Perimeter Institute in Canada. On Wednesday 18th March, she gave a colloquium on “Exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories in various dimension“. One of the central challenges in theoretical physics is to develop non-perturbative methods to describe quantitatively the dynamics of strongly […]
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Cesare Tronci visited the Mathematics Department at the University of Sheffield on Monday 24 March. He gave a talk in the Differential Geometry Seminar on “The geometry of collisionless kinetic theories“. An abstract follows: kinetic theories of multiparticle systems are dynamical continuum models governing the evolution of a probability density function on phase space. These […]
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Guido Gentile from the University of Rome III is visiting the department for two weeks, arriving on Thursday 13 March. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, and during this visit he is working with Michele Bartuccelli and Jonathan Deane on the spin-orbit project. The spin orbit resonance is where there is […]
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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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