Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The Mathematics Department at Surrey is part of a EU team that has been awarded an International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) by the Marie Curie EU FP7 program.  The project title is “Brazilian-European Partnership in Dynamical Systems“.  The other EU partners are Imperial, Warwick, Augsburg, Dresden, ICTP, Pisa, CNRS, Porto, St Andrews, Paris, IM-Poland, […]

Congratulations to Gary Chaffey for passing his PhD confirmation examination.  The viva took place on Thursday 29 November.  The examiner was Stephen Gourley.  The project is on “Modelling the cell cycle” and the project supervisors are Anne Skeldon, David Lloyd, and Norman Kirkby (Chemical Engineering).

Eoin O’Colgain has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, funded by the EU.  The project was proposed by Kostas Sfetsos along with Martin Rocek (Stonybrook).  The fellowship is expected to start in Autumn 2013.  Eoin is currently a research fellow at the Universidad de Oviedo, supported by a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship from the […]

Dr Alessio Camobreco (University of Parma) has been awarded a Della Riccia Fellowship.  The fellowship provides funds for a 6-9 month visit to the University of Surrey.  His visit, hosted by Alessandro Torrielli, will commence sometime in 2013. His PhD work (supervised by Prof Marisa Bonini) has been on the pure spinor formulation of the […]

The book “Invisible in the storm: the role of mathematics in understanding weather” is due to be published by Princeton University Press in February 2013.  The authors are John Norbury (Oxford) and Ian Roulstone. It is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern […]

A paper of Michele Bartuccelli, Jonathan Deane and Guido Gentile appeared in the October issue of the Journal of Mathematical Physics.  The title of the paper is “Attractiveness of periodic orbits in parametrically-forced systems with time-increasing friction“.  The paper considers dissipative one-dimensional systems subject to a periodic force.  As a model system, particularly suited for […]