Jan Gutowski and the Fields, Strings, and Geometry Group, are hosting a two week visit (20-30 June) of Wafic Sabra, a Professor of Physics at the American University of Beirut. He works in the areas of supergravity, supersymmetry, hypersymplectic geometry, Kasner metrics, and gauge theory. His iNSPIRE-HEP page is here. The image below is a […]
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Andrew Lorenc, Senior Research Fellow at the UK Met Office and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. The announcement is on the RMS website (link here). Prof Lorenc is a collaborator of Ian Roulstone and contributed to one of Surrey’s Impact Case Studies […]
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Martin Wolf is speaking at the 65th North British Mathematical Physics Seminar, to be held at the University of York on Thursday 30 June. Martin is speaking on “Homotopy Algebras and Higher Gauge Theory“. Abstract and further details of the conference can be found at the website (link here). The NBMPS is held three times […]
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Jessica Furber was in Edinburgh on Thursday and Friday (23-24 June) for the annual SIAM UKIE National Student Chapter Conference (link here). Jessica presented a poster on “Spending energy for a reward: understanding the fine movement of badgers“, and was awarded the runner-up prize in the Best Poster Competition. The prize was a copy of […]
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The article “The mathematics of human behaviour: how my new model can spot liars and counter disinformation“, authored by Dorje Brody, has been published in “The Conversation” (link here). The article explains, for a general audience, the main ideas in Dorje‘s recent paper published in Frontiers in Psychology (link here). “The Conversation … is a […]
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Paul Bergold and Cesare Tronci are in France next week (27 June to 1 July) visiting the Institut de physique et de chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS) for research interaction with Dr Giovanni Manfredi, funded by grants from the Templeton Foundation (link here) and the Royal Society of London (link here). A link to the IPCMS […]
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