Camilla Nobili is visiting the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London today (Thursday 12 January), invited by Michele Coti-Zelati. She is giving at talk in the Applied PDEs Seminar on “The role of boundary conditions on scaling laws in the Rayleigh-Bénard convection problem“. Abstract and further information can be found on the seminar webpage […]
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Anne Skeldon visited the University of Bristol last Friday (6th January) and gave a talk in the Neural Dynamics Forum, which forms part of a Wellcome Trust funded PhD programme (link here). The talk was titled “Sleep regulation: physiological mechanisms and the design of light interventions for improved sleep”. While there, Anne caught up with […]
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Fabian Bleitner, currently a PhD student of Camilla Nobili and matriculating at the University of Hamburg, is visiting the department this week (9-13 January). Fabian is part of the Research Training Group 2583 on “Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Fluid Dynamic Applications“. During his visit, Fabian will be working with Camilla on “turbulent convection between […]
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The paper “Critical scaling of the deposition efficiency of inertia-driven particle collisions with a cylinder in high Reynolds number air flow” authored by Matt Turner and Richard Sear (Soft Matter Group, Physics) has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids. The paper identifies the leading order asymptotic scaling for the deposition efficiency of particles […]
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The University of Surrey is launching a new marketing initiative, via the website https://stories.surrey.ac.uk, highlighting research across the university. Their first story is “In search of a good night’s sleep“, by Dalitso Njolinjo (link here). It uses state of the art graphics with embedded text to highlight current research into sleep. Professor Derk-Jan Dijk, Director […]
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The paper “Hausdorff dimension of Gauss–Cantor sets and two applications to classical Lagrange and Markov spectra“, co-authored by Carlos Matheus (École Polytechnique), Carlos Gustavo Moreira (Nankai University, China & IMPA, Brazil), Mark Pollicott (Warwick), and Polina Vytnova, has been published in the November issue of Advances in Mathematics (link to the published version here). The […]
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