Congratulations to Lewis Napper for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Tuesday 17th January, and the examiners were Jan Gutowski and Paul Skerritt. The title of his project is “Monge–Ampere geometry and the topology of vortices”. His project is supervised by Martin Wolf and Ian Roulstone. The image below shows an example […]
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Francois Gay-Balmaz is visiting the department for a week (Wednesday 25 January to Tuesday 31 January), for research interaction. His host is Cesare Tronci. During his visit he is working with Cesare on fluid dynamics relative to a Nambu bracket. He is also interacting with Werner Bauer on a problem in geometric numerical integration. The […]
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Ian Roulstone is in Cambridge this week (24-25 January) to participate in a Isaac Newton Gateway Programme on Communicating Mathematics to the General Public. The workshop, which is face-to-face, aims to bring together not only mathematical and statistical communicators, but also representatives from the media and government. Key themes are (a) mediating processes, (b) sharing […]
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The paper “Solutions and Singularities of the Semigeostrophic Equations via the Geometry of Lagrangian Submanifolds“, co-authored by Roberto D’Onofrio (Surrey/Milano-Bicocca), Giovanni Ortenzi (Milano-Bococca), Ian Roulstone, and Volodya Rubtsov (Angers, France), has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London. The final form arXiv version is available (link here). The […]
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The paper “Enhanced dissipation by circularly symmetric and parallel pipe flows“, co-authored by Yuanyuan Feng (Shanghai Key Laboratory of PMMP), Anna Mazzucato (Penn State University), and Camilla Nobili, has been published in Physica D (link to published version). The paper gives rigorous estimates for enhanced dissipation due to the combined effect of diffusion or hyperdiffusion […]
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Congratulations to Elliott Sullinge-Farrall (shown in image below) for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Tuesday 17th January, and the examiners were Bin Cheng and James Grant. The title of Elliott’s project is “Topics in the multi-dimensional calculus of variations“. His project is supervised by Jon Bevan.
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