The London Mathematical Society (LMS) has awarded a travel grant of 1k to Cesare Tronci. It funds a visit of Nicola Sansonetto, from Verona (see screenshot below), in the Autumn. Cesare and Nicola plan to work on the holonomy and nontrivial monodromy of quantum vortices in Madelung hydrodynamics. Separately, the Institute for Mathematics and its […]
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Vaibhav Gautam visited the University of Southampton on Thursday 29 June to speak at the 20th South East Mathematical Physics Seminar (link to the conference website here). Vaibhav spoke on “Matrix Entanglement“. Vaibhav is a PhD student of Masanori Hanada (Queen Mary University London, formerly University of Surrey). The picture below shows a part of […]
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Many congratulations to Daniele Farotti for passing his PhD viva on Tuesday 4 July! The examiners were George Papadopoulos (KCL, external) and Martin Wolf (internal). The title of the thesis is “Supergravity, supersymmetry and black holes“. Daniele’s supervisor was Jan Gutowski with second supervisor Alessandro Torrielli. The image below is a screenshot of the upper front page of one of his recent papers.
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Daniel Knott attended a two-week summer school on “Data science and machine learning for climate research” (link here), held at the Future Earth Research School in Bertinoro, Italy, during 5-17 June. Topics included model reduction, system identification, estimation of associated transfer operators, control, uncertainty quantification, deep learning, with applications. The principal organiser was Stefan Klus […]
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Elliott Sullinge-Farrall is visiting Padova in Italy this week (19-23 June) to attend a “Mini-Course on Mathematical Analysis” (link here). It is organised by a group from the University of Venice and the University of Padova. The key talks are “Eigenvalue problems on singularly perturbed domains“, “Spectral geometry of tubes“, and “Around Fuglede’s tiling-spectrality conjecture“. […]
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The paper “Cell-strain-energy costs of active control of contractility”, co-authored by Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn (former Surrey PhD student and now a postdoc at icelab in Umea Sweden) and Carina Dunlop, has been published as a Letter in Physical Review E. The paper shows that there is a complex relationship between the work done by the cell […]
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