Congratulations to Johannes Benthaus for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Friday 19 January, and the examiners were Bin Cheng and Sergey Zelik. The title of his project is “Enhanced dissipation for time-dependent shear flows: a hypocoercive approach“. His project is supervised by Camilla Nobili and his second supervisor is Jon Bevan.The image below […]
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Philip Aston has recently had two papers accepted. The paper “ECG Feature Importance Rankings: Cardiologists vs. Algorithms” will be published in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. It came out of the MedalCare project at NPL. There are many methods for ranking features according to importance for a given classification task but the rankings from different methods […]
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Cesare Tronci is in North America this week (22-26 January). The first stop is the University of Toronto where he is visiting Raymond Kapral in the Department of Chemistry (Kapral is one of the Co-Is on Cesare‘s Leverhulme project). The second stop is the University of Pennsylvania where he is visiting Joseph Subotnik (Department of Chemistry) […]
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The Mathematics and Physics Postgraduate Research Conference was held this week (on Tuesday 16 January). The Organising Committee consisted of Jessica Furber, Laura Jones, Ryan Poole, and Elliott Sullinge-Farrall, with Laura and Jessica taking the lead as Principal Organisers. This event showcases the research of current PhD students. This year it included a guest speaker […]
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Camilla Nobili is visiting Imperial College London today (Thursday 18 January) to give a talk in the London Analysis and Probability Seminar. Her talk is on “Scaling laws in turbulent convection” and a link to abstract and other details can be found at the LAPS website. The event is being held in the Thomas Huxley […]
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The paper “The maths of rightwing populism: easy answers + confidence = reassuring certainty“, authored by Dorje Brody, has been published today (18 January) in The Conversation. Populism appears to be enjoying a surge across the western world. For those who don’t support the parties of populism, their appeal can be baffling and unsettling. They […]
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