Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Pablo Shmerkin gave at talk in the Discrete Analysis Seminar at the Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cambridge on Wednesday 6th February.  The title of the talk was “Normal numbers and fractal measures“.  An abstract of the talk follows.  It is known from E. Borel that almost all real numbers are normal to all integer bases.  On […]

A review of the book “Invisible in the Storm” by John Norbury and Ian Roulstone has appeared in Prospect written by Philip Ball.  The review can be found here and here.  Philip Ball writes “[O]ne of the great strengths of the book is the way it picks apart the challenge of making predictions about a […]

The paper “A comparison of 4DVar with ensemble data assimilation methods” has been accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.  The authors are David Fairbairn (EngD student joint between Surrey and the Met Office),  Stephen Pring (Met Office), Andrew Lorenc (Met Office and Visiting Professor at Surrey), and Ian Roulstone.  […]

The paper “A comparison of 4DVar with ensemble data assimilation methods” has been accepted for publication in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.  The authors are David Fairbairn (EngD student joint between Surrey and the Met Office),  Stephen Pring (Met Office), Andrew Lorenc (Met Office and Visiting Professor at Surrey), and Ian Roulstone.  […]

Philip Aston has been awarded an UGPN grant for cooperative research between Surrey, North Carolina State University (Prof Hien Tran) and the University of Sao Paulo (Prof Aluisio Segurado).  The project is on “Clinical Data Validated Mathematical Models of HCV Infection Dynamics: An Interdisciplinary Approach for the Prevention, Treatment and Control of HCV Infection“.  Treatment […]

“Analysis Day” was held in the department on Friday 01 February.  The aim was to showcase research in the department in the area of analysis and to welcome Bin Cheng, new Lecturer in the area of analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations.  See below for the programme. Analysis Day Programme: 11:00 J .Bevan: “Twist maps” […]