Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

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 […]

The paper “Symplectic transversality and the Pego-Weinstein theory“, co-authored by Timothy Burchell and Tom Bridges, has been published in Advances in Mathematics. A link to the published paper is here. The paper gives a geometric formulation of the linear stability problem for solitary wave solutions in Hamiltonian partial differential equations. The screenshot below shows the […]