Ian Roulstone is in Cambridge this week (24-25 January) to participate in a Isaac Newton Gateway Programme on Communicating Mathematics to the General Public. The workshop, which is face-to-face, aims to bring together not only mathematical and statistical communicators, but also representatives from the media and government. Key themes are (a) mediating processes, (b) sharing […]
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The paper “Solutions and Singularities of the Semigeostrophic Equations via the Geometry of Lagrangian Submanifolds“, co-authored by Roberto D’Onofrio (Surrey/Milano-Bicocca), Giovanni Ortenzi (Milano-Bococca), Ian Roulstone, and Volodya Rubtsov (Angers, France), has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London. The final form arXiv version is available (link here). The […]
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The paper “Enhanced dissipation by circularly symmetric and parallel pipe flows“, co-authored by Yuanyuan Feng (Shanghai Key Laboratory of PMMP), Anna Mazzucato (Penn State University), and Camilla Nobili, has been published in Physica D (link to published version). The paper gives rigorous estimates for enhanced dissipation due to the combined effect of diffusion or hyperdiffusion […]
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Congratulations to Elliott Sullinge-Farrall (shown in image below) for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Tuesday 17th January, and the examiners were Bin Cheng and James Grant. The title of Elliott’s project is “Topics in the multi-dimensional calculus of variations“. His project is supervised by Jon Bevan.
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Camilla Nobili is visiting the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London today (Thursday 12 January), invited by Michele Coti-Zelati. She is giving at talk in the Applied PDEs Seminar on “The role of boundary conditions on scaling laws in the Rayleigh-Bénard convection problem“. Abstract and further information can be found on the seminar webpage […]
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Anne Skeldon visited the University of Bristol last Friday (6th January) and gave a talk in the Neural Dynamics Forum, which forms part of a Wellcome Trust funded PhD programme (link here). The talk was titled “Sleep regulation: physiological mechanisms and the design of light interventions for improved sleep”. While there, Anne caught up with […]
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