Gregory Faye (Minnesota) and David Lloyd are organising a one-day special workshop at the IMA, University of Minnesota on Tuesday 28 May. The title of the workshop is “Analysis and Computation of Coherent Structures” and the website is here. The aim of this one-day workshop is to present an overview of some of the techniques, […]
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Kostas Sfetsos is visiting the University of Sao Paulo, which is just south of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, from 23rd May to the 5th June. He is visiting the Institute of Physics, and he gave a talk on Monday 27th May in the seminar of the IFT/SAIFR (Institute for Theoretical Physics/South American Center for […]
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The article “Can math improve climate prediction?” by Ian Roulstone and John Norbury was published on 23 May in the The Blog of the Huffington Post. The article discusses the role of mathematics in modelling the distribution of water, and in particular rain, in a background of changing average temperature, using material from their recently […]
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The paper “Equivalent theories of liquid crystal dynamics” has been accepted for publication in the Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. The authors are Francois-Gay Balmaz (Paris), Tudor Ratiu (Lausanne) and Cesare Tronci. An abstract of the paper follows. There are two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystal dynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie director theory and the […]
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Kavita Patni passed her PhD confirmation examination on Thursday 23 May. The title of her project is “Analysis of the damped and driven Navier-Stokes equations in two space dimensions”. Sergey Zelik is the project supervisor, and the examiners were Bin Cheng and Tom Bridges.
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Five undergraduate students in mathematics have been awarded EPSRC summer research bursaries this year. The award for each student is £2500 and it funds the student to work on a research topic with a member of staff for 10 weeks. Hannah Smith will be working with Bin Cheng on vortex dynamics on a rotating sphere. […]
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