Congratulations to Chettha Saelim for passing his PhD Confirmation viva! It was held on Monday 14 October, and his examiners were Andrea Prinsloo and Alessandro Torrielli. The title of his report is “Deformations of Black Holes from an L-infinity Algebra Perspective”. The project is to encode deformation data of a near horizon geometry of an […]
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Denys Bondar, an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, is visiting Maths@Surrey this week (12-19 October) for research interaction with Cesare Tronci. His visit is funded by Cesare‘s Leverhulme grant. They are working together on the properties of equilibrium configurations in mixed quantum-classical dynamics. The screenshot […]
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Congratulations to Vaibhav Gautam for passing his PhD viva today (Monday 14 October)! The External Examiner was Prof Anosh Joseph (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa), and the internal examiner was Dorje Brody. The title of his thesis is “Partial Confinement, Matrix degrees of freedom, and Holography” and he was supervised by Masanori Hanada (Principal Supervisor, […]
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The SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (link here) invited David Lloyd to give a talk in their virtual seminar series (link here), which is broadcast internationally. The seminar took place on Tuesday 8 October at 12 noon EST (5pm in the UK). The title was “Localized Multi-Dimensional Patterns“. In it, Dave […]
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The paper “Multi-vortices and lower bounds for the attractor dimension of 2D Navier-Stokes equations“, co-authored by A.G. Kostianko (Zhejiang Normal University), A.A. IIlyin (Kelysh Institute Moscow), D. Stone, and S.V. Zelik, has been published in the Doklady Mathematics Journal. The paper presents a new method for obtaining lower bounds for the dimension of attractors for […]
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Last week (24-27 September) Anne Skeldon was in Seville Spain for the 27th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society, designated Sleep Europe 2024 (link here). The event had more than 3500 participants from 80 countries. Anne ran a symposium session on “From data to clinical application: Identifying sleep and circadian phenotypes”. There were 4 […]
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