The paper “Equivalent theories of liquid crystal dynamics” has been accepted for publication in the Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. The authors are Francois-Gay Balmaz (Paris), Tudor Ratiu (Lausanne) and Cesare Tronci. An abstract of the paper follows. There are two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystal dynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie director theory and the […]
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Kavita Patni passed her PhD confirmation examination on Thursday 23 May. The title of her project is “Analysis of the damped and driven Navier-Stokes equations in two space dimensions”. Sergey Zelik is the project supervisor, and the examiners were Bin Cheng and Tom Bridges.
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Five undergraduate students in mathematics have been awarded EPSRC summer research bursaries this year. The award for each student is £2500 and it funds the student to work on a research topic with a member of staff for 10 weeks. Hannah Smith will be working with Bin Cheng on vortex dynamics on a rotating sphere. […]
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Gianne Derks visited the University of Leiden in the Netherlands during the first week of May. On 2nd May, she participated in the workshop “Systems Pharmacology – Towards a European Network“. The workshop brought together industrial and academic experts from different underpinning disciplines such as (molecular) biology, bio-analytical chemistry, pharmacology, bio-informatics, mathematics and statistics to […]
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Gianne Derks visited the University of Leiden in the Netherlands during the first week of May. On 2nd May, she participated in the workshop “Systems Pharmacology – Towards a European Network“. The workshop brought together industrial and academic experts from different underpinning disciplines such as (molecular) biology, bio-analytical chemistry, pharmacology, bio-informatics, mathematics and statistics to […]
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Bin Cheng is visiting the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University today (20 May) to give a talk in the Partial Differential Equations Seminar. The title of the talk is “Analysis of some nonlinear PDEs from multi-scale geophysical applications“. The talk is regarding PDE systems from geophysical applications with multiple time scales, in which linear skew-self-adjoint […]
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