Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Anne Skeldon is visiting Leeds Tuesday-Thursday this week (20-22 November) to examine the PhD thesis of Pakwan Riyapan and to work with Alistair Rucklidge on pattern formation.

Sergey Zelik was one of two principle lecturers at a “crash course” on nonlinear PDEs held 8-9 November at the Centre for Analysis and Nonlinear PDEs at the Maxwell Institute in Edinburgh. Sergey gave 5 hours of lectures on “Invariant manifolds and finite-dimensional reduction for dissipative PDEs“.  A summary of the lectures is as follows: […]

Gianne Derks attended the Banff International Research Station in Canada the week of 4 November for a workshop on Analysis, Stability and Bifurcation in Modern Nonlinear Physical Systems. Her talk title was “Viscosity induced instability for Euler and averaged Euler equations in a circular domain” with abstract: We consider the infinite time behaviour of a […]

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”.