Anne Skeldon was in Lausanne last week (30 May to 1 June) for the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (link here). Anne gave a talk on “Identifying whether extreme sleep phenotypes are driven by endogenous circadian factors or environmental factors by combining light and sleep timing data with […]
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Rachel Bernasconi, Jessica Furber, and Elliott Sullinge-Farrall attended the SIAM UKIE National Student Chapter Conference 2023 (link here), hosted by the University of Oxford (1-2 June). Jessica presented a 12 minute talk, titled: “Spending Energy for a Reward: Understanding the Fine Movements of Badgers“; Rachel presented a 12 minute talk, titled “Owls, larks, and tongues. […]
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Anne Skeldon was in Edinburgh last week (24-25 May) for a conference on “Separation of time scales in biology“, held at the Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh (conference website here). Anne was an invited speaker and talked on “The fast-slow dynamics of sleep regulation“, which was based on joint work with Gianne Derks (Leiden) and […]
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Shresth Gupta has joined the Department today (Monday 22 May) as a postdoc working with Philip Aston. His project lasts for 9 months, is funded by UKRI via an Impact Acceleration Account. The project is entitled “Blood Glucose Estimation from Photoplethysmography Signals to Enable Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring for Diabetics”. Shresth has just finished his […]
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Bin Cheng was in Marrakesh last week (15-17 May) for the Fifth Conference on Structural Nonlinear Dynamics and Diagnosis (CSNDD 2023, link here). Bin was invited to give a talk in the “Dynamics of PDEs” minisymposium, and the title of his talk was “Near-resonance approximation of rotating Navier-Stokes equations“. The abstract can be found in […]
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Danielle Bielli is a PhD student on the joint degree between the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Surrey. On Monday 22 May, Daniele passed the PhD viva at both institutions. The title of his thesis was “Non-abelian T-duality in superspace“. The external thesis reviewers were Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli (University of Queensland) and Pietro Grassi […]
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