Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

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 […]

Hamid Alemi Ardakani as been appointed a Research Fellow on the OWEL wave energy project which started on 1st June.  Hamid was formerly a PhD student at the University of Surrey where he worked on the Surrey sloshing project and his website can be found here. He will be working on the EPSRC supported ocean […]

Professor Seok Kim, from the Seoul National University in Korea, is visiting the Fields, Strings and Geometry Group from Monday, 10th of June until Friday, 15th of June 2013. He will be giving a seminar on “M5-brane indices from 5d gauge theories” on Tuesday, the 11th of June at 4pm.  His visit is supported by […]

David Lloyd is attending an IMA Special Workshop: Joint US-Japan Conference for Young Researchers on Interactions among Localized Patterns in Dissipative Systems, held during 3-7 June at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota.  At the conference David gave a talk on “Nucleation of localised ferro-patterns” on Monday, and presented a poster […]

David Lloyd is attending an IMA Special Workshop: Joint US-Japan Conference for Young Researchers on Interactions among Localized Patterns in Dissipative Systems, held during 3-7 June at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota.  At the conference David gave a talk on “Nucleation of localised ferro-patterns” on Monday, and presented a poster […]

Bin Cheng visited the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the University of Cambridge on Thursday 30 May to give a talk in the Applied and Computational Analysis Series.  The title of the talk was “Analysis of some nonlinear PDEs from multi-scale geophysical applications“.  The talk was on PDE systems from geophysical applications with multiple time scales, […]