Byung Kyu Na, who is just finishing his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the Technical University Munich, has started working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mathematics at Surrey, beginning in February 2026 (Byung’s Linkedin page). He is working on Cesare Tronci‘s Leverhulme funded grant “Solute motion in complex fluids: […]
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The Virtual International Seminar on Theoretical Advancements (VISTA) is an international virtual seminar series hosted by Professor Alexey V. Akimov at the University of Buffalo in the US. Cesare Tronci was a speaker in this series on 25 March, giving Seminar 105. The title of his talk was “Koopmon trajectories in nonadiabatic quantum-classical dynamics“. The […]
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A team from Surrey Mathematics attended, gave talks, and organised two minisymposia, at BAMC 2026. It was held at the University of East Anglia from 30 March to 1 April. (BAMC webpage here). The team included David Lloyd, Matt Turner, Aravind Kumar Kamaraj, Stanislaw Biber, Rachel Bernasconi, Daniel Knott and Anusha Schutz. Rachel gave a […]
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Cesare Tronci‘s new paper “Madelung hydrodynamics of spin-orbit coupling: action principles, currents, and correlations“, while still a preprint (arXiv:2601.10698) (link here) is already attracting attention. It has been written up in the online journal “Medium” in an article entitled “Open-Sourcing the Universe’s Code: Spin–Orbit Coupling Was Always Geometry” (link here) and written up in the […]
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STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) has awarded a Consolidator grant of £13,480 to a team in the Quantum Group. The PI was Alessandro Torrielli, and the Co-Is were Jan Gutowski, Andrea Rocco, and Martin Wolf. The grant runs from 2026 to 2030. Background on the project and its overarching aims are below. Quantum theory […]
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David Lloyd was awarded a London Mathematical Society Scheme 2 grant (award date 2 March, award amount £1500). The grant funds a visit of Michael Henderson (IBM, retired) to Surrey, as well as visits to Bristol, Imperial, and Manchester to give talks there. At Surrey, Michael will give a talk at the Geometry, Space, Surrey […]
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