Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

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”.

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 […]