Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Ian Morris’ paper on “Extremal sequences of polynomial complexity“, joint with Nikita Sidorov (University of Manchester) and Kevin Hare (University of Waterloo, Canada), has recently been accepted for publication in the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.  A summary of the paper follows.  The joint spectral radius of a finite set of square matrices […]

Cesare Tronci & Claudia Wulff are long-term visitors at the Newton Institute Programme on “The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals“.  Cesare is visiting for 8 weeks during the period 7 January to 28 February.  Claudia is visiting for 4 weeks during the period 7 January to 1 February.  Details of the programme can be found at […]

Last year, Aston published a paper called “Is radioactive decay really exponential?” (Euro Phys Lett 97 52001).  The paper questioned the almost universally accepted belief that radioactive decay is always exponential.  He considered various arguments that suggest that slowly decaying isotopes may decay non-exponentially, which is hard to verify experimentally due to the long timescales […]

James Grant has been appointed to a Readership in Mathematics at the University of Surrey, starting 2nd January 2012.  James received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1993, supervised by Stephen Hawking.  Since then he has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Newcastle, University of Hull,  and the Universita […]

Bin Cheng has been appointed to a Lectureship in Mathematics at the University of Surrey starting 2nd January 2012.  Bin received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 2007, supervised by Eitan Tadmor.  He was a Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan from 2007-2010, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State […]

The article “Nonlinear energy transfer between fluid sloshing and vessel motion” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  The article examines the dynamic coupling between a sloshing fluid and the motion of the vessel containing the fluid.  A nonlinear mechanism is identified which leads to an energy exchange between the vessel […]