Andrew Hazel, Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester (link here), visited Mathematics on Friday 13 October. He held a meeting with the Leaders of Mathematics (Dave Lloyd and Matt Turner) sharing best practice, and gave a talk in the Friday Mathematics Colloquium. The title of his talk was “Bubbles and […]
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A paper of Jon Bevan and Jonathan Deane, about the Wirtz pump, that appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in 2018 (link here) has been picked up by Steve Mould, the science youtuber. He has made a video based on the theory (youtube link here). The video first shows a laboratory […]
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Ian Roulstone is currently on the panel for the Earth System Prediction programme (link here), which is advancing the frontiers of earth system prediction. In particular the job of the panel is to evaluate and rank the first phase of proposals for the Governance programme (link here). The other members of the panel are Prof […]
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Cesare Tronci visited IPCMS (Institut de physique et de chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg) last week (2-6 October) to visit Dr Giovanni Manfredi, funded by grants from the Templeton Foundation (link here) and the Royal Society of London (link here). Paul Bergold also attended the meeting via zoom. A link to the IPCMS webpage is […]
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The paper “Quantum formalism for the dynamics of cognitive psychology“, with sole author Dorje Brody, has been published in Nature/Scientific Reports. It is published open access (link here). It is well documented in cognitive psychology that human behaviour often exhibits “irrational” features. For example, you are likely to choose A if B happens, and you […]
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On Monday 2 October, Tom Bridges gave a webinar in the “Nonlinear waves and coherent structures online colloquium“, organised by Stathis Charalampidis (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo), Christopher Chong (Bowdoin College), and Panos Kevrekidis (UMass Amherst). The title of the talk was “Travelling wave solutions connecting periodic orbits in Hamiltonian PDEs“. A recording of the […]
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