Congratulations to Giacomo Acciarini for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Monday 7th August, and the examiners were Andrea Lucca Fabris (Surrey Space Centre) and Tom Bridges. The title of his project is “Stochastic continuation for space trajectory design in uncertain environments”. Giacomo is a joint PhD student between Mathematics (with supervisor […]
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The paper “Attractors. Then and Now“, authored by Sergey Zelik, has been published in Russian Mathematical Surveys. It is 146 pages long, and is the longest paper ever published in the history of RMS. It is both a survey paper and a presentation of new results. It discusses the classical and modern results of the […]
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Polina Vytnova has been travelling around Europe this summer attending and speaking at a range of conferences on dynamical systems. During 14-19 May, she attended and spoke at the conference “Thermodynamic Formalism: Non-additive Aspects and Related Topics” in Bedlewo, Poland on “Discrepancy between dimensions of self-similar measures” (conference webpage here). Inn June she attended the […]
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The paper “The Gaussian wave packet transform via quadrature rules“, co-authored by Paul Bergold and Caroline Lasser (TU Munich), has been published in the IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis. Based on the Fourier inversion formula and a partition of unity, a new representation of square-integrable functions is presented. Including a rigorous error analysis, the variants […]
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Jessica Furber has been invited to spend two weeks at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. She will be participating in the programme on “Mathematics of movement: an interdisciplinary approach to mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology” during the period 21 August to 6 September. Jessica is a PhD student […]
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The paper “Kinematic Lie algebras from Twistor space“, co-authored by Leron Borsten (Hertfordshire), Jurco Bransilav (Charles University Prague), Hyungrok Kim (Heriot-Watt), Tommaso Macrelli (ETH Zurich), Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt), and Martin Wolf, has been published this week in Physical Review Letters (link here). The paper analyses theories with color-kinematics duality from an algebraic perspective and finds […]
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