Professor Dame Alison Etheridge (Statistics, Oxford University) visited Maths@Surrey today (Friday 7 March) and gave a Colloquium talk. Dame Alison is first President of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and was also Chair of the Mathematical Sciences sub-panel of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The title of her talk today was “The forwards […]
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Paul Bergold is visiting the School this week (3-8 March) for research interaction with Cesare Tronci and Andrea Rocco. Paul and Cesare discussed their latest paper about momentum coupling (Rashba Hamiltonians) for the koopmons. During his visit, Paul gave a talk on Thursday 6 March in the Fundamental Mathematics Seminar series on “Solving the time-dependent […]
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Tom Bridges visited the Courant Institute today (Wednesday 5 March) for research interaction. His host for the visit was Yuri Latushkin, and they worked on various research problems involving the Maslov index, Fredholm operators, and the stability of solitary waves. The institute is name after Richard Courant and the photo below shows Tom and Yuri […]
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The paper “Decoherence implies information gain”, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Lane Hughston (Goldsmiths University of London) has been published this week in Physical Review Research. In the literature, quantum decoherence — a phenomenon that captures the emergence of classical world from the underlying quantum — is understood to represent the loss of information from […]
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Cesare Tronci visited the Mathematics Department at the University of Sussex today (Monday 3 March) and gave a talk in the Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Seminar. The title of his talk was “Koopmon trajectories in nonadiabatic quantum-classical dynamics“. The abstract can be found on the seminar webpage (link here). The photo below shows an example […]
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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). […]
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