Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Neville Boon passed his PhD viva today with flying colours.  The title of his thesis is “Discrete stochastic models of molecular motor stepping cycles“.  The external examiner was Matthew Turner (University of Warwick) and the internal examiner was Gianne Derks.  Neville’s project was supervised by Rebecca Hoyle and funded by EPSRC.

Philip Aston participated in the Mathematics in Medicine Study Group on 15-17 April in London (the UK MMSG NC3Rs Study Group 2013).  He worked on the project “Modelling heart rate changes in the mouse as a system of delayed, weakly coupled oscillators“.  Details of the research problem can be found here.  According to Philip, “it […]

Matt Turner visited the Mathematics Department at the University of Exeter this week for two days, 15-16 April, for research interaction with Andrew Gilbert. During the visit he gave a short talk on “Sloshing and resonances in rectangular vessels“.

Dave Lloyd is attending the British Applied Mathematics Colloquiuim 2013 held at the University of Leeds, which runs from 9-12 April.  On Wednesday 10 April he gave a talk on “Localised crime hotspots” in the minisymposium on “Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation in memory of Thomas Wagenknecht”.

 Sara Pasquetti attended a workshop on “Gromov-Witten invariants and Number Theory“, during the week of 1st April.  It was held at the American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto, California, organized by Albrecht Klemm, Yongbin Ruan and Don Zagier.  The website for the conference is here.

The paper “Global solvability and blow up for the convective Cahn-Hilliard equations with concave potentials“, by A Eden (Bogazici University, Turkey), V.K. Kalantarov (Koc University, Turkey) and Sergey Zelik, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.  The paper studies initial boundary value problems for the unstable convective Cahn-Hilliard (CH) equation, i.e., […]