The new PhD students starting in October 2021 are Jessica Furber (MOLSS), supervised by Dave Lloyd, Stefan Klus and Giovanni Lo Lacono (Vet School) Vaibhav Gautum (FSG), supervised by Masanori Hanada Lewis Napper (FSG), supervised by Martin Wolf and Ian Roulstone Dominic Stone (DSPDEs), supervised by Sergey Zelik Elliott Sullinge-Farrall (DSPDEs), supervised by Jon Bevan […]
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Leander Wyss has been awarded a Turing Grant (link here), funded by the UK’s global programme for study abroad. The grant funds an 8 week visit to the University of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain (see map left). His host at USC will be Dr Riccardo Borsato, and the topic of research will revolve […]
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The paper “Neutral signature gauged supergravity solutions” co-authored by Jan Gutowski and W.A. Sabra (American University of Beirut) has been published in the February 2021 issue of JHEP. A link to the published version (available gold open access) is here. The paper “Cosmological solutions, a new wick-rotation, and the first law of thermodynamics” co-authored by […]
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Congratulations to Jonah Varney (shown left) for passing his PhD viva! It took place today (Tuesday 2 November). Jonah’s thesis is entitled “Marginal Instability of Matrix Systems“. The External Examiner was Tom Kempton (Manchester) and the Internal was Jon Bevan. The project was supervised by Ian Morris (formerly Surrey, now at Queen Mary University London). […]
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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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