Jason Bramburger is visiting Stefan Klus, Naratip Santitissadeekorn and Dave Lloyd, of the Data Group, this week. He arrives Sunday 30 January and will visit the department for five days. Jason, shown left, is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University in Virginia and his homepage is here. His visit is funded by a grant […]
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Tom Bridges gave a virtual talk today (Thursday 27 January) in the Applied PDE Seminar of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. The talk was on “Reappraisal of Whitham’s 1967 theory for wave-meanflow interaction in shallow water”. Further information and abstract can be found on the UW Seminar page […]
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The Joint Theory Seminar, hosted by the University of Vienna and the Technical University Vienna, hosted a virtual talk by Masanori Hanada today (Tuesday 25 January). The title of the talk was “Entanglement between matrix degrees of freedom and QFT counterpart of entanglement island” In the talk, he discussed how entanglement in the gravity side […]
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The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University hosted a talk by Alessandro Torrielli today (Thursday 20 January). The talk was in the Centre for Particle Theory Colloquium series, and the title of the talk was “Integrable scattering of massless particles and the AdS/CFT correspondence.” After a brief introduction to some of the impact which […]
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Congratulations to Ryan Poole (shown in image left) for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Tuesday 18th January, and the examiners were Tom Bridges and Dave Lloyd. The title of Ryan’s project is “The effects of compliance on the stability of various flow configurations“. His project is supervised by Matt Turner with […]
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The paper “Supersymmetry enhancement of heterotic horizons“, co-authored by Daniele Farotti and Jan Gutowski, has been published open access (link here) in the January 2022 issue of Classical and Quantum gravity. The paper considers the near horizon region of supersymmetric extremal black holes in ten-dimensional heterotic supergravity. It investigates the necessary and sufficient conditions for […]
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