Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is hosting a six-month programme on Dispersive Hydrodynamics, from July to December 2022 (link here). The opening conference was held this week (11-15 July) on “Modulation theory and dispersive shock waves“. Tom Bridges attended the event in person and gave one of the 5 plenary lectures, speaking on […]

Congratulations to Imran Usmani for passing his PhD viva today (Friday 8 July). The thesis title is “Parametric models of the circadian pacemaker in controlled lighting conditions“, and the examiners were Prof Victoria Booth (Michigan) and Prof Gianne Derks. Imran‘s supervisors are Prof Anne Skeldon and Prof Derk-Jan Dijk (Director, Surrey Sleep Research Centre). Figure […]

The paper “Evolution of hybrid quantum-classical wavefunctions“, co-authored by François Gay-Balmaz (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) and Cesare Tronci, has been accepted for publication in Physica D. In the paper, a gauge-invariant wave equation for the dynamics of hybrid quantum-classical systems is formulated by combining the variational setting of Lagrangian paths in continuum theories with Koopman […]

At the School of Veterinary Medicine 4th Research Conference, held 6-7 July at the Vet School, there was a session on 5 minute lightning talks. Jessica Furber gave a talk in this session on “Spending Energy for a Reward: Understanding the Fine Movements of Badgers“. The talk explained briefly her research and included some animations. […]

The annual Nizhny Novgorod Conference on Dynamical Systems, Theory and Applications, was held this year from 26 to 29 June, on the campus of the Higher School of Economics, as well as virtually. Sergey Zelik attended virtually and gave one of the Plenary Lectures. The topic of his talk was “Inertial manifolds and finite dimensional […]

Jessica Furber presented her poster “Spending energy for a reward: understanding the fine movement of badgers” at the School of Veterinary Medicine, held 6-7 July on the Manor Park campus of the University of Surrey. The audience consisted of a wide spectrum of mostly veterinary scientists. Jessica‘s project is linked to the Vet School with […]