The paper “Linear confinement in the partially-deconfined phase“, co-authored by Vaibhav Gautam, Masanori Hanada, Jack Holden (Southampton), and Enrico Rinaldi (RIKEN, Japan), has been published in the Journal of High Energy Physics (link here). In the paper, they consider the partially-deconfined saddle of large-N pure Yang-Mills theory lying between confined and deconfined phases, in which […]
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Vaibhav Gautam gave a virtual talk at the University of Milano-Bicocca on Wednesday 5th April. The title of the talk was “Matrix Entanglement” and was based on a paper of the same title (see blog post here). The main theme of the talk was how the entanglement on the gravity side can be described as […]
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A Surrey team (Rachel Bernasconi, Kieran Boniface, Dan Catlin, Dave Lloyd, Anne Skeldon, Matt Turner) attended the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, held in Bristol, 3-5 April, and hosted by UWE and Bristol University (link to main webpage). Anne Skeldon co-organised (with Jake Ahern, Bristol) a minisymposium on “Mathematical modelling of sleep and circadian rhythms: from […]
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A Surrey team (Werner Bauer, Paul Bergold, Tom Bridges, Cesare Tronci) attended a two-day workshop on Applied Geometric Mechanics at Imperial College London. The workshop, held on Thursday-Friday 30-31 March, is the third meeting of the two-year network on Applied Geometric Mechanics sponsored by the London Mathematical Society, linking Edinburgh, Exeter, Imperial, and Surrey, and […]
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The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a grant of £405,196 to Cesare Tronci for a project on “Solute motion in complex fluids: mathematics and solvation dynamics“. The co-investigators are Prof Irene Burghardt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Prof Raymond Kapral (University of Toronto), and Francois Gay-Balmaz (ENS Paris). Photos of the team are below (with mathematicians on the left […]
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Congratulations to Mirco di Gioia for passing his MPhil viva today (Friday 23 March)! The examiners were James Lucietti (Edinburgh, external) and Dorje Brody (internal). The title of the thesis is “Supersymmetry of de-Sitter solutions in string theory“. Mirco’s supervisors were Jan Gutowski and Andrea Prinsloo. The image below shows a schematic of anti de Sitter […]
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