Cesare Tronci was in Madrid Spain last week (12-14 July) visiting the Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas (ICMAT) for a conference on “Dynamical Systems, Mechanics and Control” in homour of Anthony Bloch. Cesare gave a talk on “Mixed quantum-classical dynamics and its closure models“. Abstract and further details of the conference are available online (link here). […]
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The paper “Traveling wave solution of the Kawahara equation joining distinct periodic waves“, co-authored by Pat Sprenger (Newton Institute, Cambridge), Tom Bridges, and Michael Shearer (North Carolina State University), has been published this week in the Journal of Nonlinear Science (link here). The paper combines jump conditions from the theory of conservation laws with dynamical […]
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Carina Dunlop visited the University of Reading today (Thursday 13 July) to speak at the Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) Network meeting. Her talk was on “Integrating mechanistic cancer models into pre-clinical drug trials: a spatially resolved model to predict tumour growing fractions“. The meeting (link here) was attended by both academics and representatives from the […]
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Alessandro Torrielli, promoted to Professor in summer 2022, gave his inaugural lecture to the university on Wednesday 5 July, on the topic of “What is a quantum integrable system?” A screenshot of the announcement is shown below.
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A conference in honour of Claudia Wulff, an outstanding mathematician and Reader in Mathematics at Surrey, who died in 2021, was held under the auspices of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Surrey, the week of 3 July (4-7 July, conference webpage here). The conference brought colleagues of Claudia from around the […]
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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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