Michael Berry visited the School on Friday 8th December, hosted by Cesare Tronci (Fundamental Maths Group) and Jim Al-Khalili (Quantum Foundations Group). He gave a talk in the Friday Mathematics seminar on “Quantum trajectories, quantum potential, superoscillations: Bohm, Madelung, de Broglie, and Newton“. Michael is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol and has […]
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Laura Jones organised the Postgraduate Research (PGR) Seminar this semester. This seminar series gives the PhD students an opportunity to present their work in an informal setting. This semester (Autumn 2023) brought a lot of interesting discussions and there’s been a steady turnout every time. The five speakers this autumn (in alphabet order) are Daniel […]
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NC3R (National Council for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research) has awarded Carina Dunlop, in collaborationi with Dr Paola Campagnolo (FHMS, Surrey), a £135,000 grant for a 4 year PhD studentship. The title of the project is “Developing a digital twin of 3D vascular systems to study haemorrhagic viral diseases“, and a […]
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Bin Cheng visited Hamburg Germany last week (Thursday-Friday 23-24 November). He was invited to give the Lothar-Collatz Colloquium in Applied Mathematics at the the Universität Hamburg. His talk was on “Near resonant approximation in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics“. A link to the announcement with abstract is available (link here). His host for the visit was Prof […]
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Congratulations to Steve Falconer for passing his PhD viva today (Tuesday 28 November)! The examiners were Erik Bollt (Clarkson University, New York) and Ian Roulstone (internal) with Philip Aston in the Chair. The title of the thesis is “Data-driven modelling of dynamical systems from data streams“. Steve‘s supervisors were Naratip Santitissadeekorn and David Lloyd. Steve has […]
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The paper “Double-copying self-dual Yang-Mills theory to self-dual gravity on twistor space“, co-authored by L. Borsten (Hertfordshire), B. Jurco (Charles University, Prague), H. Kim (Heriot-Watt), T. Macrelli (ETH Zurich), C. Saemann (Heriot-Watt), and Martin Wolf, has been published in the Journal of High Energy Physics. The published version is open access and freely available (link […]
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