David Lloyd, who was promoted to Professor of Mathematics in 2021, gave his inaugural lecture yesterday (Wednesday 15 June). The title was “Snakes on a Plane“. Dave gave a history of Turing patterns, and then morphed the talk into his current research on the development of mathematical theory to explain the formation of patterns in […]
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The paper “Jordan blocks and the Bethe ansatz I: The eclectic spin chain as a limit“, co-authored by Juan Miguel Nieto Garcia and Leander Wyss, has been published in the August issue of Nuclear Physics B. It is 46 pages long and published gold open access (with arXiv version here). The paper presents a procedure […]
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Cesare Tronci is visiting the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona this week (30 May – 3 June). Verona is 160km east of Milan in the north of Italy. Cesare is giving a six-hour in-person series of lectures on “Euler-Poincare’ variational principles and applications to fluid dynamics“. A link to the website […]
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Jason Bramburger (Concordia, Surrey IAS Fellow) and Dave Lloyd are visiting the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath today (Friday 27 May) to participate in the Bath-Bristol meeting on dynamical systems. They will be presenting and discussing recent work on localised dihedral patterns near a Turing instability. The photo below shows Dave […]
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Last week (16-20 May) was Dementia Action Week. Resonating with this theme was the launch event for the new UK Dementia Research Institute Care Research & Technology Centre (DRI C&T) which is a collaboration between Imperial College London and the University of Surrey. The Imperial news item on the launch is here and the homepage […]
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J Nathan Kutz, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle (homepage here), is visiting the Data Group this week (22-27 May). In addition to interacting with members of the Data Group (Klus, Lloyd, Santitissadeekorn), he is one of the principal speakers at the conference on Data and Dynamics taking place this […]
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