Jan Gutowski was in Spain this week (19-23 February) to give a Plenary Lecture at a conference on “Mathematical Supergravity”, held on the scientific campus of Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, located in the northwest of the Autonomous Community of Madrid Spain. Jan‘s talk title was “Real Supersymmetric Solutions of (3,2) Signature Five-Dimensional […]
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Dorje Brody is visiting the University of Keele today (Tuesday 20 February) to give a public lecture in the evening. The talk is part of the Prof Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Lecture Series. The title of his talk is “Could quantum physics be the key that unlocks the secrets of human behaviour?” This series of lectures […]
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David Maratinez Crespo is visiting mathematics this semester for three months (4 January to 4 April). He is a PhD student from the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain. His host for the visit is Cesare Tronci, and his research topic for the visit is “Lyapunov stability of coupled quantum-classical dynamics“. He is also participating in […]
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The paper “Bounds on buoyancy driven flows with Navier-slip conditions on rough boundaries” co-authored by Fabian Bleitner and Camilla Nobili, has been published in Nonlinearity. It is published open access (link here). Fabian Bleitner was a PhD student of Camilla at the University of Hamburg. The paper considers two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection with Navier-slip and fixed-temperature […]
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Ayoub Mansar, a PhD student in Mathematics at École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay is visiting the Fundamental Mathematics Group (Group B) this week (8 February to 16 February). Ayoub is a third-year PhD student supervised at ENS by Prof Frédéric Dias. His PhD project is on the theory and numerical simulation of breaking water waves and […]
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Congratulations to Roberto D’Onofrio for passing his PhD viva today (Wednesday 14 February)! The External Examiners were John Gibbon (Imperial College London) and Raffaele Vitolo (Universita del Salento). The title of his thesis is “Singularities in fluid dynamics: from the classical approach to Monge-Ampere geometry” and he was supervised by Giovanni Ortenzi (University of Turin), […]
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