Alessandro Torrielli, promoted to Professor in summer 2022, gave his inaugural lecture to the university on Wednesday 5 July, on the topic of “What is a quantum integrable system?” A screenshot of the announcement is shown below.
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Conference in honour of Claudia Wulff held at the University of Surrey IAS
A conference in honour of Claudia Wulff, an outstanding mathematician and Reader in Mathematics at Surrey, who died in 2021, was held under the auspices of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Surrey, the week of 3 July (4-7 July, conference webpage here). The conference brought colleagues of Claudia from around the […]
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LMS and IMA award grants to Cesare Tronci to fund a visitor from Italy and attend a conference in France
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) has awarded a travel grant of 1k to Cesare Tronci. It funds a visit of Nicola Sansonetto, from Verona (see screenshot below), in the Autumn. Cesare and Nicola plan to work on the holonomy and nontrivial monodromy of quantum vortices in Madelung hydrodynamics. Separately, the Institute for Mathematics and its […]
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Vaibhav Gautam speaks at the 20th SEMP Seminar held at the University of Southampton
Vaibhav Gautam visited the University of Southampton on Thursday 29 June to speak at the 20th South East Mathematical Physics Seminar (link to the conference website here). Vaibhav spoke on “Matrix Entanglement“. Vaibhav is a PhD student of Masanori Hanada (Queen Mary University London, formerly University of Surrey). The picture below shows a part of […]
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Daniele Farotti passes PhD viva
Many congratulations to Daniele Farotti for passing his PhD viva on Tuesday 4 July! The examiners were George Papadopoulos (KCL, external) and Martin Wolf (internal). The title of the thesis is “Supergravity, supersymmetry and black holes“. Daniele’s supervisor was Jan Gutowski with second supervisor Alessandro Torrielli. The image below is a screenshot of the upper front page of one of his recent papers.
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Daniel Knott attends summer school on data science in Italy
Daniel Knott attended a two-week summer school on “Data science and machine learning for climate research” (link here), held at the Future Earth Research School in Bertinoro, Italy, during 5-17 June. Topics included model reduction, system identification, estimation of associated transfer operators, control, uncertainty quantification, deep learning, with applications. The principal organiser was Stefan Klus […]
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