The paper “Bounds on heat flux for Rayleigh–Bénard convection between Navier-slip fixed-temperature boundaries” co-authored by Theodore Drivas (Stonybrook), Huy Nguyen (Brown), and Camilla Nobili (Hamburg/Surrey) has been published in the April issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. The paper studies two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection with Navier-slip, fixed temperature boundary conditions and […]
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The conference “Numerical Methods in Theoretical Physics 2022” is being held this week (16-20 May) at Asia Pacific Centre for Theoretical Physics in Pohang Korea + online (link here). Masanori Hanada is an invited speaker and is giving his virtual talk today (Monday 16 May) on “Black hole from matrices“. Matrix models can describe black […]
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The EMBL/EMBO European Molecular Biology Laboratory Symposium on Mechanobiology in Development and Disease is being held at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg Germany this week (15-18 May). Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn is attending in person and presenting a poster on “Working within constraints: a hypothesis for cellular mechanosensory feedback“. The symposium focuses on the interplay […]
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The paper “Existence of localised radial patterns in a model for dryland vegetation“, with sole author Dan Hill, has been published in the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics. The published version is here and the arXiv version is here. The paper considers stationary localised radial solutions to a reduced model for dryland vegetation on flat […]
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The project “The underpinning mathematics for a novel wave energy converter: the FlexSlosh WEC“, with Principal Investigator Hamid Alemi Ardakani (University of Exeter) and Co-Investigator Tom Bridges, has been funded by the EPSRC Small Grants Panel. The project starts 1st October 2022 and runs for one year. The award is for £79.4K and provides staff […]
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The paper “Noise, fake news, and tenacious Bayesians“, with sole author Dorje Brody, has been published in Frontiers in Psychology. It is published open access (link here). The paper addresses the question “How can one best model dynamical systems (like human behaviour) driven by the unravelling of noisy information?” The paper shows that the answer […]
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