The paper “Three-candidate election strategy“, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Tomooki Yuasa (Tokyo Metropolitan University) has been published this week in Royal Society Open Science 10: 230584. The paper is published gold open access (link here). Both the UK general election and the US presidential election are expected to come up next year. Current polls […]
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Philip Aston has been appointed to the Newton Gateway Scientific Advisory Panel. The Newton Gateway to Mathematics is the impact initiative of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge and reaches out to and engages with the users of maths – in industry, business, public sector and other scientific disciplines. The Gateway Scientific Advisory Panel members […]
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Anne Skeldon was in Ireland last week (18-22 September) visiting the School of Mathematical Sciences. Her host for the visit was Sebastian Wieczorek, Professor and Head of Department (link here). Anne and Sebastian spent time talking about her work on geometric singular perturbation theory and tipping points. On Thursday 21 September, Anne gave a talk […]
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Laura Jones and Ryan Poole organised a careers event yesterday (Wednesday 20 September) for PhD students and Postdocs. The event, held in Room 39AA04 in Mathematics, included a series of talks, and then a panel discussion. The speakers included Rana Marrington (Surrey Careers Service), Janet Preston (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics at Surrey), Jessica Rowden […]
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Carina Dunlop is in London this week (18-19 September) to attend the London Mathematical Biology Conference at University College London. She is an invited speaker and gave a talk on cell mechanotransduction (“What do cells and tissues feel?“). A link to the conference website is available (link here) and the image below is from the […]
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Last week (Wednesday 13 September) Cesare Tronci visited the Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica “E. De Giorgi” at the University of Salento, and gave a seminar (in Italian) with the title “Modelli fluidi di dinamica mista quanto-classica“. An abstract can be found online (link here). The map below shows a map of Italy and the […]
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