Philip Aston attended an IPEM (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine) workshop on The Effect of Skin Pigmentation on Pulse Oximeter Accuracy in London on 22nd May 2024. He gave a talk entitled “Does skin tone affect the accuracy of machine learning classification applied to photoplethysmography signals?”. During the pandemic, it became apparent that […]
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Jessica Furber was in L’Aquila Italy this week (28-31 May) at the conference: Stochastic Modelling and Experiments in Ecology and Biology (link here). The conference themes were (i) stochastic population dynamics, (ii) quantitative and system biology, (iii) microbial ecology, (iv) statistical mechanics models in ecology, (v) evolution in microbial communities, biodiversity, coexistence and species interactions, […]
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Dave Lloyd visited the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester yesterday (Thursday 30 May) to give a talk in the Applied Mathematics Seminar. The title of his talk was “Snakes on the plane: Developing a Theory for Multidimensional Localised Patterns“. In the talk, Dave covered recent developments in the theory of Turing patterns, […]
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The paper “Numerical simulations of shallow-water sloshing coupled to horizontal vessel motion in the presence of a time-dependent porous baffle” authored by Matt Turner has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Engineering Mathematics. This paper numerically simulates the motion of a coupled fluid system which includes a porous baffle whose porosity can be […]
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Congratulations to Roberto D’Onofrio for defending his PhD thesis at the University of Milano Bicocca today (Friday 24 May). The members of the committee were Milvia Francesca Rossini (Bicocca), Francesco De Montis (Cagliari), and Cesare Tronci. The title of the thesis is “Singularities in fluid dynamics: from the classics approach to Monge-Ampere geometry”. Roberto‘s project […]
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Anne Skeldon is in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week (18-22 May) to attend and speak at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR, link here). Anne points out that there are not too many mathematicians at these meetings so it a privilege to get to speak. She spoke on […]
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