Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The blog on research in mathematics at the University of Surrey

Laura Jones passes PhD viva

Congratulations to Laura Jones for passing her PhD viva! The viva took place on Thursday 27 February. The title of Laura’s thesis is “Mathematical modelling of Collective Efficacy“. The external examiner was Dr Toby Davies (Law, University of Leeds), and the internal examiner was Naratip Santitissadeekorn. Laura’s primary supervisor was David Lloyd and her second supervisor was Prof Ian Brunton-Smith (Sociology, University of Surrey). […]


Paper of Matt Turner and Tom Bridges on a theory of wave breaking accepted in Water Waves

The paper “Effect of real-world perturbations on wave breaking due to a sharp-crested superharmonic instability“, co-authored by Ayoub Mansar, Matt Turner, Tom Bridges, and Frederic Dias, has been accepted for publication in the journal Water Waves (link to final-form manuscript here). Ayoub is a PhD student, and Frederic a Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure de […]


Anne Skeldon visits the University of Umea in Sweden and gives a Colloquium Talk

Anne Skeldon visited the University of Umea last week (Thursday-Friday 20-21 February) for a collaborative research visit. Joining her from Surrey was Derk-Jan Dijk (Director Surrey Sleep Research Centre), and her host at Umea was Associate Professor Katharina Wulff, of the Department of Molecular Biology. In addition to research interaction, Anne and Derk-Jan gave back-to-back […]


London Mathematical Society awards a Research in Pairs grant to Camilla Nobili

Camilla Nobili has been awarded a Research in Pairs grant (Award date 14 February) by the London Mathematical Society. This grant awards £1200 to Camilla to host a visitor at the University of Surrey in order to engage in a joint research project. The project is on “Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations” and the visitor is Prof Giuseppe Coclite […]


Lewis Napper passes PhD viva

Congratulations to Lewis Napper for passing his PhD viva! The viva took place on Thursday 20 February. The title of Lewis’ thesis is “Geometric Techniques in PDE Theory, Fluid Dynamics, and Relativity“. The external examiner was Prof Jan Slovak (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), and the internal examiner was Dr James Grant. Lewis‘ primary supervisor was Martin […]


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