Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Jock McOrist gave a talk in the String Theory Seminar at Oxford on 23 October, and at the String Theory Seminar at CEA/Saclay in Paris on 9 November.   He is visiting Banff in Canada from 1-5 December for a String theory and Generalised Geometries workshop.  Banff by night is shown in the accompanying photo.

Sara Pasquetti gave a talk on Monday 19 November at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. The talk was in the String Theory Seminar and the title was “Holomorphic blocks in three dimensions.”  An abstract follows: we show that sphere partition functions and indices of 3 dimensional, N = 2, gauge theories can be decomposed into a […]

Pablo Shmerkin gave a talk at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford, on Tuesday 20 November.  The talk was in the Functional Analysis Seminar and the title was “Normal numbers and fractal measure”.

Karen Young is part of a team that has been awarded a grant to study the effect of vitamin D on paediatric patients with fatty liver disease (NAFLD).  In addition the project will also examine whether or not they have certain variants (known as polymorphisms) in genes that influence vitamin D status.   Furthermore, this […]

Alexei Ilyin of the Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow visited the Department the week of 12 November.  His host was Sergey Zelik.  He gave a talk on Thursday in the Analysis seminar on “The Navier Stokes equations and spectral inequalities”.

  Neville Boon, currently a final year PhD student in Mathematics at Surrey, supervised by Rebecca Hoyle, was one of two winners of the TakeAim Competition.  This prize is sponsored by he Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) for Industrial Mathematics.  The TakeAIM competition aims to make visible the crucial role that mathematics plays in all aspects […]