Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The project “Mathematical Modelling of HDL cholesterol in males and females” has been funded by the MILES programme in November.  Some background on the project follows.  Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the world (WHO, 2009).  One of the many risk factors is low HDL cholesterol.  HDLs are a heterogenous group of […]

Jonathan Deane has been invited to be co-Editor for a special issue of the journal  “Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society“.  The co-editor is Xin-Chu Fu (a former Post-doc at the University of Surrey), and the title of the special issue is “Discontinuous Dynamical Systems arising in Science and Engineering”.   The special issue will […]

Congratulations to Matthew Wakeling for passing the EngD confirmation viva on Wednesday 21 November.  The project is on “Satellite retrievals and data assimilation”.  The examiners were Amos Lawless (Reading) and Chris France (Centre for Environmental Strategy).  The supervisors are John Eyre (MetOffice), Susan Hughes (Civil Engineering) and Ian Roulstone.

Claudia Wulff has been appointed Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS) with effect from January 2013.

Anne Skeldon is visiting Leeds Tuesday-Thursday this week (20-22 November) to examine the PhD thesis of Pakwan Riyapan and to work with Alistair Rucklidge on pattern formation.

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: […]