Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

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 […]

Martin Wolf will be giving a talk at the week-long conference on “Symmetry and Geometry of Branes in String/M Theory” to be held at Durham University during 28th January to 1st February.  Martin’s talk is on “Non-abelian self-dual tensor field theories from twistor space“.  The conference website is here.

Martin Wolf will be giving a talk at the week-long conference on “Symmetry and Geometry of Branes in String/M Theory” to be held at Durham University during 28th January to 1st February.  Martin’s talk is on “Non-abelian self-dual tensor field theories from twistor space“.  The conference website is here.

Martin Wolf’s paper, co-authored with Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt University), has appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of Mathematical Physics.  The paper is “On twistors and conformal field theories from six dimensions“.  The paper discusses chiral zero-rest-mass field equations on six-dimensional space-time from a twistorial point of view.  Specifically, the paper presents a detailed […]

Mark Roberts, Anne Skeldon, Cesare Tronci and Claudia Wulff attended the workshop on “Symmetry, bifurcation and order parameters” which was held the week of 7 January at the Newton Institute Cambridge.  This workshop is part of the 6 month programme on “The mathematics of liquid crystals“.  The workshop was organised by David Chillingworth and Peter […]

Third year undergraduate James Goodwin has been selected to be one of the speakers in 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.  James’ talk will be based on his summer 2012 project on “Lie Algebras […]