Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

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: […]

Gianne Derks attended the Banff International Research Station in Canada the week of 4 November for a workshop on Analysis, Stability and Bifurcation in Modern Nonlinear Physical Systems. Her talk title was “Viscosity induced instability for Euler and averaged Euler equations in a circular domain” with abstract: We consider the infinite time behaviour of a […]

Jock McOrist gave a talk in the String Theory Seminar at Oxford on 23 October, and at the String Theory Seminar at CEA/Saclay in Paris on 9 November.   He is visiting Banff in Canada from 1-5 December for a String theory and Generalised Geometries workshop.  Banff by night is shown in the accompanying photo.