Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The blog on research in mathematics at the University of Surrey

Article of Polina Vytnova on impact of Mandelbrot fractals on maths published in The Conversation

The article “Mandelbrot’s fractals are not only gorgeous — they taught mathematicians how to model the real world“, authored by Polina Vytnova, has been published (on Friday 22 November) in The Conversation (link here). The article discusses the concept and construction of fractals, discusses Mandelbrot’s seminal role, and their impact on mathematics. The screenshot below […]


Paper of Imran Nasim on data-driven numerical surrogates accepted for leading AI conference in Canada

The paper “Fine-tuned MLP-Mixer foundation models as data-driven numerical surrogates?“, co-authored by Imran Nasim and Joao Lucas de Sousa Almeida (IBM Brazil), has been accepted for presentation and publication at the NeurIPS 2024 Conference (38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) to be held 10 December through 15 December in Vancouver (link here). Imran […]


Article of Dorje Brody on entropy and information control published in The Conversation

The article “Entropy and information control: the key to understanding how to mount the fightback against Trump and other populists“, authored by Dorje Brody, has been published today (Wednesday 20 November) in The Conversation (link here). The article emphasises the value of the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the analysis of political discourse. The Second […]


Ryan Poole passes PhD viva

Congratulations to Ryan Poole for passing his PhD viva today (Wednesday 13 November)! The title of Ryan’s thesis is “The Effects of Wall Compliance on the Stability of Jets and Wakes“. Ryan‘s primary supervisor was Matt Turner, and his second supervisor was Bin Cheng. The external examiner was Jonathan Healey (University of Keele) and the internal […]


Paper of Martin Wolf on metric BV* algebras published in Fortschritte der Physik

The paper “Double Copy From Tensor Products of Metric BV*-Algebras“, co-authored by Leron Borsten (University of Hertfordshire), Branislav Jurčo (Charles University, Prague), Hyungrok Kim (University of Hertfordshire), Tommaso Macrelli (ETH Zurich), Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt University), and Martin Wolf, has been published open access (link here) in Fortshcritte der Physik. Field theories with kinematic Lie algebras […]


Paper of Sergey Zelik on vector reaction-diffusion equations published in Mathematische Nachrichten

The paper “Nonconcentration phenomenon for one-dimensional reaction–diffusion systems with mass dissipation“, co-authored by Juan Yang (Lanzhou & Graz, Austria), Anna Kostianko (Imperial, Moscow, Zhejiang), Chunyou Sun (Lanzhou), Bao Quoc Tang (Graz, Austria), and Sergey Zelik, has been published in Mathematische Nachrichten. The paper removes an entropy assumption in previous work to successfully obtain global boundedness […]


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