Vakhtang Putkaradze, Centennial Professor in Mathematics at the University of Alberta in Canada, is visiting the department for the week of 17-21 June. Vakhtang works on a range of problems in geometric mechanics from the nanoscale to the macroscale. His host is Cesare Tronci. During his visit he gave a talk on Wednesday in the […]
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Mark Roberts’ paper, “Modeling the gravitational potential of a nonspherical asteroid” has appeared online in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics which is published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The co-authors are Beth Herrera-Sucarrat and Phil Palmer of the Surrey Space Centre. The paper gives a simple and very general approximation […]
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Sara Pasquetti is visiting Korea to attend and speak at 3 conferences. The main conference is STRINGS 2013. This conference has grown, since the 1980s, to be the largest and most important conference in this field. Sara is giving a plenary lecture on “3d&5d partition functions as q-CFT correlators”. The website for the conference is […]
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Jon Bevan attended the conference “Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science“, sponsored by the SIAM activity group on maths of materials science, and held at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 9-12 June. He gave a talk on “Austentite as a local minimizer in a model of material microstructure with a surface […]
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Jon Bevan attended the conference “Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science“, sponsored by the SIAM activity group on maths of materials science, and held at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 9-12 June. He gave a talk on “Austentite as a local minimizer in a model of material microstructure with a surface […]
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Bin Cheng is at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery in Canada for a 5 day (9 June to 14 June) workshop on “Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Related Models“. The website for the conference, including videos of the talks, can be found here.
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