Congratulations to Rachel Bernasconi for passing her PhD viva! The viva took place on Friday 20 February. Rachel‘s thesis was on “A functional anatomy of sleep/wake modelling.” Her examiners were Prof Steve Coombes (Nottingham) and Prof Victoria Booth (University of Michigan), with Werner Bauer chairing the viva. Rachel’s principal supervisor was Anne Skeldon with second supervisor Polina Vytnova. The photo below […]
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Emir Ahmed, a final-year undergraduate in mathematics, was on placement last year at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, supervised at NPL by Dr Ciaran Bench. A faculty-wide contest was held for the best placement student last year, and Emir was the winner. He is the first mathematician in over 5 years to win this […]
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The paper “New applications of Hadamard-in-the-mean inequalities to incompressible variational problems“, co-authored by Jon Bevan, Martin Kružík (Czech Academy of Sciences & Czech Technical University), and Jan Valdman (Czech Academy of Sciences & University of South Bohemia), has been published in the Springer journal Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (open access link here). […]
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Anne Skeldon visited Oxford University last week (Thursday 29 January), and gave a talk in the OCIAM Seminar series.. The talk was on “Mathematical Modelling of sleep-wake regulation: light, clocks and digital twins”. The talk was a tour through the work that she has been doing with the Surrey Sleep Research Centre. Full abstract at […]
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Shi Jin, Director of the Institute of Natural Sciences, and Chair Professor of Mathematics, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, visited mathematics last week (Friday 30 January) for research interaction and to give a Colloquium talk. His host for the visit was Cesare Tronci. The colloquium talk was in the morning, and the title was “Quantum […]
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The annual Mathematics, Physics and Space Postgraduate Research Conference was held last week (on Thursday 29 January). The Principal Organiser was Esha Joshi. Vasilis Moustakis helped with consultation on the abstracts. Dr. Stanislaw Biber and Dr. Payel Das were the ECR guest speakers. Dr Stanislaw Biber and Dr Alexia Beale were the co-judges. This event showcases […]
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