Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Congratulations to Rebecca Atkinson for passing her PhD viva today (Wednesday 8 December)! Rebecca’s thesis is entitled “Localisation and Optimal Mitigation of Sampling Error in Ensemble Data Assimilation“. The External Examiner was Ross Bannister (University of Reading) and the Internal was Naratip Santitissadeekorn. Rebecca‘s project was funded by the SCENARIO Reading/Surrey DTP, and her supervisory […]

Cesare Tronci took the Eurostar over to Paris this morning (Wednesday 8th December) for a three day research visit to École normale supérieure. His host and collaborator at ENS-Paris is François Gay-Balmaz. They will be working together on a range of problems in the area of hybrid quantum-classical dynamics, following up on their latest paper […]

Congratulations to Timothy Burchell for passing his PhD viva today (Monday 6 December)! Timothy’s thesis is entitled “Nonlinear wave equations, Clifford Analysis, and the stability of solitary waves“. The External Examiner was Dr Frédéric Chardard (University Jean Monnet & Camille Jordan Institute), the Internal was Bin Cheng, and the viva was chaired by Matt Turner. […]

Kieran Boniface presented a poster today (Wednesday 24 November) at the University of Surrey celebration of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM Day (link to the event page here). The title of Kieran‘s poster is “Modelling the response of tissues to their environment“. Kieran‘s PhD project is supervised by Carina Dunlop.

Cesare Tronci is in Strasbourg this week (22-26 November) visiting the Institut de physique et de chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS) for research interaction with Dr Giovanni Manfredi, funded by a grant from the Royal Society of London (link here). On Wednesday 24 November, Cesare is giving a talk in the IPCMS Seminar Series […]

Matt Turner is giving a talk today (Tuesday 23rd November) in the UCL Applied Mathematics seminar series. His talk is on “`Vortex Leapfrogging external to a circular cylinder” and a link to the UCL Seminar page and his abstract is here. An image from his talk is shown below.