Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

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 […]

Ian Morris’ paper on “Extremal sequences of polynomial complexity“, joint with Nikita Sidorov (University of Manchester) and Kevin Hare (University of Waterloo, Canada), has recently been accepted for publication in the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.  A summary of the paper follows.  The joint spectral radius of a finite set of square matrices […]

Ian Morris’ paper on “Extremal sequences of polynomial complexity“, joint with Nikita Sidorov (University of Manchester) and Kevin Hare (University of Waterloo, Canada), has recently been accepted for publication in the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.  A summary of the paper follows.  The joint spectral radius of a finite set of square matrices […]

Cesare Tronci & Claudia Wulff are long-term visitors at the Newton Institute Programme on “The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals“.  Cesare is visiting for 8 weeks during the period 7 January to 28 February.  Claudia is visiting for 4 weeks during the period 7 January to 1 February.  Details of the programme can be found at […]

Last year, Aston published a paper called “Is radioactive decay really exponential?” (Euro Phys Lett 97 52001).  The paper questioned the almost universally accepted belief that radioactive decay is always exponential.  He considered various arguments that suggest that slowly decaying isotopes may decay non-exponentially, which is hard to verify experimentally due to the long timescales […]

James Grant has been appointed to a Readership in Mathematics at the University of Surrey, starting 2nd January 2012.  James received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1993, supervised by Stephen Hawking.  Since then he has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Newcastle, University of Hull,  and the Universita […]