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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Dorje Brody has been asked by a company based in Tokyo to give a set of public lectures (in Japanese to a Japanese audience) titled “Quantum Theory and Cognitive Psychology” with subtitle “Does quantum theory hold the key to the next generation AI?”. There will be one online lecture per month, lasting for 12 months, […]
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Sergey Zelik is in Turkey this week (25-29 September) attending and speaking at the CHAOS conference with themes: homoclinic bifurcations, strange attractors, Arnold diffusion, Fermi acceleration, and solitons (link to website here). It is a celebration of the 60th birthday of Dmitry Turaev, and is being held in the Nesim Math Village in Izmir Turkey. […]
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The paper “Three-candidate election strategy“, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Tomooki Yuasa (Tokyo Metropolitan University) has been published this week in Royal Society Open Science 10: 230584. The paper is published gold open access (link here). Both the UK general election and the US presidential election are expected to come up next year. Current polls […]
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Philip Aston has been appointed to the Newton Gateway Scientific Advisory Panel. The Newton Gateway to Mathematics is the impact initiative of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge and reaches out to and engages with the users of maths – in industry, business, public sector and other scientific disciplines. The Gateway Scientific Advisory Panel members […]
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Anne Skeldon was in Ireland last week (18-22 September) visiting the School of Mathematical Sciences. Her host for the visit was Sebastian Wieczorek, Professor and Head of Department (link here). Anne and Sebastian spent time talking about her work on geometric singular perturbation theory and tipping points. On Thursday 21 September, Anne gave a talk […]
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