Anne Skeldon was in Ireland last week (18-22 September) visiting the School of Mathematical Sciences. Her host for the visit was Sebastian Wieczorek, Professor and Head of Department (link here). Anne and Sebastian spent time talking about her work on geometric singular perturbation theory and tipping points. On Thursday 21 September, Anne gave a talk […]
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Laura Jones and Ryan Poole organised a careers event yesterday (Wednesday 20 September) for PhD students and Postdocs. The event, held in Room 39AA04 in Mathematics, included a series of talks, and then a panel discussion. The speakers included Rana Marrington (Surrey Careers Service), Janet Preston (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics at Surrey), Jessica Rowden […]
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Carina Dunlop is in London this week (18-19 September) to attend the London Mathematical Biology Conference at University College London. She is an invited speaker and gave a talk on cell mechanotransduction (“What do cells and tissues feel?“). A link to the conference website is available (link here) and the image below is from the […]
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Last week (Wednesday 13 September) Cesare Tronci visited the Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica “E. De Giorgi” at the University of Salento, and gave a seminar (in Italian) with the title “Modelli fluidi di dinamica mista quanto-classica“. An abstract can be found online (link here). The map below shows a map of Italy and the […]
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Educational YouTuber Steve Mould and Stand-up Mathematician Matt Parker visited Jonathan Deane‘s house on 17 September, in order to see for themselves the Wirtz pump in the stream at the bottom of the garden. Jon Bevan joined as well. Jonathan and Jon published a paper on the Wirtz pump in 2018 and this is how Steve Mould came to know about […]
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Carina Dunlop was at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge the first week of September (4-8 Sept) to participate in the workshop on “Active mechanics, from single cells to cell layers, tissues and development” (link here). The meeting brought mathematicians, physicists and cell biologists together to look at methodologies for modelling active […]
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