Congratulations to Laura Jones for passing her PhD confirmation examination. It was held today (Monday 1st November), and the examiners were Naratip Santitissadeekorn and Anne Skeldon. The title of Laura’s project is “A Convolution model of collective efficacy“. Her project is supervised by David Lloyd. The image left is from the website here.
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The London Mathematical Society has funded the Applied Geometric Mechanics Network for two years (2022-2023). It links Edinburgh, Exeter, Imperial, and Surrey. The PI is Hamid Alemi Ardakani (Exeter), and the node leaders are Jacques Vanneste (Edinburgh), Darryl Holm (Imperial), and Cesare Tronci. The grant funds four meetings, one at each node. Further details of […]
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Masanori Hanada is giving a talk today (Wednesday 27 October) at the “YITP workshop QCD phase diagram and lattice QCD“. The conference is four days over 25-29 October, hosted by the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University. A link to the conference webpage is here. Masanori is speaking today on “Global Symmetries and Partial […]
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The paper “Existence and stability of kayaking orbits for nematic liquid crystals in simple shear flow“, co-authored by David Chillingworth (Southampton), M Gregory Forest (North Carolina), Reiner Lauterbach (Hamburg), and Claudia Wulff, has been published in the Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. A link to the (gold open access) electronic version of the paper […]
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Masanori Hanada is giving two talks this week on the topic of “Confinement/deconfinement transition in the D0-brane matrix model — A signature of M-theory?” The talks are based on a paper of the same title uploaded to the arXiv on 4 October 2021 (link here). The screenshot below shows the top of the front page […]
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Dorje Brody is an invited participant at the 2021 Science Foo Camp for three days (22-24 October). Science Foo Camp (wikipedia entry here) is an interdisciplinary scientific conference organised by O’Reilly Media, Google Inc, and the Nature Publishing Group. The conference is via invitation only, with invitees identified by Google as leading researchers in various […]
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