Educational YouTuber Steve Mould and Stand-up Mathematician Matt Parker visited Jonathan Deane‘s house on 17 September, in order to see for themselves the Wirtz pump in the stream at the bottom of the garden. Jon Bevan joined as well. Jonathan and Jon published a paper on the Wirtz pump in 2018 and this is how Steve Mould came to know about […]
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Carina Dunlop was at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge the first week of September (4-8 Sept) to participate in the workshop on “Active mechanics, from single cells to cell layers, tissues and development” (link here). The meeting brought mathematicians, physicists and cell biologists together to look at methodologies for modelling active […]
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The sixth international conference on Geometric Science of Information (GSI 23) was held last week (30 August to 1st September) in Saint-Malo, Palais du Grand Large, France (website here). Werner Bauer spoke about joint work with Rüdiger Brecht on “Casimir-dissipation stabilized stochastic rotating shallow-water equations on the sphere“. Paul Bergold spoke about joint work with […]
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Dominic Stone, Polina Vytnova, and Sergey Zelik travel to China this week for Dynamics Days in Lanzhou (12-22 September). Dominic will give a talk on “The non-autonomous Navier-Stokes-Brinkman-Forchheimer equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions: dissipativity, regularity, and attractors“, Polina will give a series of three one-hour lectures on “A dynamical viewpoint on resonances of hyperbolic surfaces”, […]
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Michele Bartuccelli and Guido Gentile are visiting the Mathematics Department for two weeks, having arrived on Wednesday 23 August. Michele is a former member of staff and currently Reader Emeritus, and Guido is a Professor at Roma III and current Visiting Professor at Surrey. Their host for the visit is Jonathan Deane. They are working […]
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Alessandro Torrielli was at the University of Durham last week (Wednesday to Friday, 16-18 August) to attend an speak at the Fundamental Physics UK (fpuk) meeting (link here). Alessandro gave the first lecture on Friday morning on “The strange world of AdS2 integrability“. In the talk, he reviewed some of the features of integrable scattering […]
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