Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Sara Pasquetti gave a talk in the String Theory Seminar at the Mathematical Sciences Institute in Cambridge on 17 January.  The title of the talk was “Holomorphic blocks in 3 dimensions“.  In the talk she showed that sphere partition functions and indices of 3 dimensional, N = 2, gauge theories can be decomposed into a […]

Congratulations to Anna Chuter for successfully passing her PhD viva on 22 January.  Anna’s thesis was on “A qualitative analysis of the data assimilation linked ecosystem carbon model DALEC“.  Anna was supervised by Philip Aston and Anne Skeldon with help from Ian Roulstone.  The examiners were Professors Shaun Quegan (Sheffield) and Rebecca Hoyle.  An abstract […]

Peter Hydon’s paper, co-authored with his former PhD student Tim Grant, on “Characteristics of conservation laws for difference equations” has been accepted for publication in the journal Foundations of Computational Mathematics.  The paper sets out the difference analogues of some well-known results on conservation laws, including a proof that the converse of Noether’s Theorem holds […]

At the University of Surrey PGR conference on 30 January, Gary Chaffey won the prize for the best poster.  The title of his poster was “Modelling the cell cycle” (see above for miniature version).  Gary’s PhD project is jointly supervised by Anne Skeldon and David Lloyd in Mathematics and Norman Kirkby in Chemical Engineering.  A […]

At the University of Surrey PGR conference on 30 January, Gary Chaffey won the prize for the best poster.  The title of his poster was “Modelling the cell cycle” (see above for miniature version).  Gary’s PhD project is jointly supervised by Anne Skeldon and David Lloyd in Mathematics and Norman Kirkby in Chemical Engineering.  A […]

Robyn Smith, a third year MMath student, has had her abstract selected for presentation at the Tomorrow’s Mathematician Today 2013 Conference.  The conference will be held on Saturday 16 February at the University of Greenwich, and is sponsored by IMA and GCHQ.  Robyn’s talk will be based on her summer 2012 research project on “Game […]