Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

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.

In 1996, Philip Aston decoded a war time diary that had been written by an RAF pilot, Donald Hill, in a prisoner-of-war camp in Hong Kong (click here for details). In 2000, Andro Linklater told the story of Donald and Pamela Hill and the decoding of Donald’s diary in a book called The Code of […]

In 1996, Philip Aston decoded a war time diary that had been written by an RAF pilot, Donald Hill, in a prisoner-of-war camp in Hong Kong (click here for details). In 2000, Andro Linklater told the story of Donald and Pamela Hill and the decoding of Donald’s diary in a book called The Code of […]

The project: Models and Mathematics in Life and Social Sciences (MILES) has had its EPSRC funding extended to 31 January 2014.  This project emerged from an EPSRC Bridging the Gaps programme, and involves a collaboration between mathematics, sociology, biology and computing.  The PI is Rebecca Hoyle and the co-Is are Paul Krause (Computing), Johnjoe McFadden […]

The project: Models and Mathematics in Life and Social Sciences (MILES) has had its EPSRC funding extended to 31 January 2014.  This project emerged from an EPSRC Bridging the Gaps programme, and involves a collaboration between mathematics, sociology, biology and computing.  The PI is Rebecca Hoyle and the co-Is are Paul Krause (Computing), Johnjoe McFadden […]

Robert Gray passed his PhD viva today (4 June), subject to minor corrections and additions. The external examiner was Peter Clarkson (Kent) and the internal examiner was Mark Roberts.    Robert’s thesis, entitled Automorphisms of Lie algebras, includes a complete classification of automorphisms for all six-dimensional real Lie algebras, together with some fundamental theorems on the […]