Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Stephen Gourley has been involved in an ongoing collaboration with Rongsong Liu (University of Wyoming), Donald L. DeAngelis (US Geological Survey and the Department of Biology, University of Miami) and John P. Bryant (Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska) on how certain plants defend themselves against snowshoe hares in northern Canada and Alaska, and […]

Stephen Gourley has been involved in an ongoing collaboration with Rongsong Liu (University of Wyoming), Donald L. DeAngelis (US Geological Survey and the Department of Biology, University of Miami) and John P. Bryant (Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska) on how certain plants defend themselves against snowshoe hares in northern Canada and Alaska, and […]

Stephen Gourley is involved in an ongoing project that aims to understand the evolution of insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, how we can make more effective use of insecticides to delay the onset of resistance, and the implications for malaria control.  Two papers on this topic have been accepted for publication recently.  The first paper, on […]

Ville Suomala from the University of Oulu in Finland visited the department for the period 20-25 January to work with Pablo Shmerkin.   During his visit he gave a talk in the Analysis Seminar on “The size of random covering sets”.   Ville’s website can be found here.

Pablo Shmerkin gave at talk in the Discrete Analysis Seminar at the Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cambridge on Wednesday 6th February.  The title of the talk was “Normal numbers and fractal measures“.  An abstract of the talk follows.  It is known from E. Borel that almost all real numbers are normal to all integer bases.  On […]

A review of the book “Invisible in the Storm” by John Norbury and Ian Roulstone has appeared in Prospect written by Philip Ball.  The review can be found here and here.  Philip Ball writes “[O]ne of the great strengths of the book is the way it picks apart the challenge of making predictions about a […]