Congratulations to Kieran Boniface for passing his PhD viva yesterday (Thursday 21 December)! The examiners were Prof Bindi Brook (Nottingham) and Anne Skeldon (internal). The title of the thesis is “Mathematical models for mechanotransduction with application to organoids“. Kieran‘s supervisor was Carina Dunlop. The photo below is from his presentation at the House’s of Parliament STEM […]
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Sergey Zelik is giving a seminar today (Monday 18 December) at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in St Petersburg (link to the institute here). He is speaking in the V.I. Smirnov Seminar on Mathematical Physics. The title of his talk is “A sharp Poincare inequality for functions from W1,∞“. Abstract and further information can be found […]
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The paper “Approximate localised dihedral patterns near a Turing instability“, co-authored by Dan Hill (Saarland University), Jason Bramburger (Concordia University), and David Lloyd, which was published in Nonlinearity in March 2023 (open access, link here), has been selected for the cover of the January 2024 issue. The planned cover page is shown below. The original […]
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The paper “Tree-level color-kinematics duality from pure spinor actions“, co-authored by Leron Borsten (University of Hertfordshire Hatfield), Branislav Jurčo (Charles University Prague), Hyungrok Kim (Heriot-Watt), Tommaso Macrelli (ETH Zurich), Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt), and Martin Wolf, has just been published in Physical Review D (open access, direct link here). The paper proves that the tree-level scattering […]
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This week (15-16 December), the “Shilnikov Workshop 2023” is being held at the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. The conference has both virtual and live talks. A link to the conference website is here. Sergey Zelik is an invited speaker and is talking on Saturday 16 December on “Instability and non-uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes […]
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Anne Skeldon was invited to write an Editorial for the journal SLEEP on a paper that uses a mathematical model to analyse sleep in flies (Abhilash & Shafer, 2023). The Editorial, co-authored by Anne and Derk-Jan Dijk, Director of the Surrey Sleep Research Centre, is now available online (link here). The Editorial highlights some of […]
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