The paper “Groups, Drift and Harmonic Measures“, co-authored by Mark Pollicott (Warwick) and Polina Vytnova, has been published in a special issue of Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Mathematics Going Forward, LNM 2313). The volume is a collection of open problems across mathematics. The article of Polina describes an old problem and a new approach. The […]
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Vaibhav Gautam is visiting RIKEN in Tokyo from early June until 23 June. Just before arriving in Tokyo, Vaibhav met up with Masanori Hanada and they visited APCTP (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics) in Pohang, South Korea, for the period 12-22 May, in order to participate in the workshop on “Entanglement, Large N, and […]
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Polina Vytnova was in Roscoff, France from 9-12 May, to attend and speak at the Conference on Probability and Dynamics, held at the Biological Centre of Roscoff. The Conference was part of the Thematic Semester 2023 on Probability of the Centre Henri Lebesgue. Polina gave a talk on “A new approach to compute Lyapunov exponents“. […]
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Anne Skeldon was in Lausanne last week (30 May to 1 June) for the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (link here). Anne gave a talk on “Identifying whether extreme sleep phenotypes are driven by endogenous circadian factors or environmental factors by combining light and sleep timing data with […]
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Rachel Bernasconi, Jessica Furber, and Elliott Sullinge-Farrall attended the SIAM UKIE National Student Chapter Conference 2023 (link here), hosted by the University of Oxford (1-2 June). Jessica presented a 12 minute talk, titled: “Spending Energy for a Reward: Understanding the Fine Movements of Badgers“; Rachel presented a 12 minute talk, titled “Owls, larks, and tongues. […]
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Anne Skeldon was in Edinburgh last week (24-25 May) for a conference on “Separation of time scales in biology“, held at the Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh (conference website here). Anne was an invited speaker and talked on “The fast-slow dynamics of sleep regulation“, which was based on joint work with Gianne Derks (Leiden) and […]
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