Ian Morris gave an invited talk at the One Day Ergodic Theory Meeting, held at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary College, University of London, on Wednesday 7th November. The talk was on “Unavoidable structures in positive-density subsets of Euclidean space; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the weak-* topology on […]
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The Mathematics Department at Surrey is part of a EU team that has been awarded an International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) by the Marie Curie EU FP7 program. The project title is “Brazilian-European Partnership in Dynamical Systems“. The other EU partners are Imperial, Warwick, Augsburg, Dresden, ICTP, Pisa, CNRS, Porto, St Andrews, Paris, IM-Poland, […]
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Congratulations to Gary Chaffey for passing his PhD confirmation examination. The viva took place on Thursday 29 November. The examiner was Stephen Gourley. The project is on “Modelling the cell cycle” and the project supervisors are Anne Skeldon, David Lloyd, and Norman Kirkby (Chemical Engineering).
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Eoin O’Colgain has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship, funded by the EU. The project was proposed by Kostas Sfetsos along with Martin Rocek (Stonybrook). The fellowship is expected to start in Autumn 2013. Eoin is currently a research fellow at the Universidad de Oviedo, supported by a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship from the […]
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Dr Alessio Camobreco (University of Parma) has been awarded a Della Riccia Fellowship. The fellowship provides funds for a 6-9 month visit to the University of Surrey. His visit, hosted by Alessandro Torrielli, will commence sometime in 2013. His PhD work (supervised by Prof Marisa Bonini) has been on the pure spinor formulation of the […]
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The book “Invisible in the storm: the role of mathematics in understanding weather” is due to be published by Princeton University Press in February 2013. The authors are John Norbury (Oxford) and Ian Roulstone. It is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern […]
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