Congratulations to Roberto D’Onofrio for passing his PhD Confirmation Examination! It was held today (Monday 4 April), and the examiners were Alessandro Torrielli and Cesare Tronci. The title of Roberto’s project is “Fluid Dynamics and Monge-Ampère Geometry”. Roberto is enrolled on our new dual PhD degree programme with the University of Milano-Bicocca. He is supervised in Italy by Giovanni […]
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The paper “Double copy from homotopy algebras“, with co-authors Leron Borsten (Heriot-Watt), Hyungrok Kim (Heriot Watt), Branislav Jurčo (Charles University Prague), Tommaso Macrelli, Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt), and Martin Wolf, published by Fortschritte der Physik in August 2021, has been recognised by the journal as “top-cited paper in the field”. The paper is 100 pages long […]
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Elizabeth Carlson is visiting the department this week (w/c 28th March) for research interaction with Camilla Nobili. She is currently a PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria (link to her home page here), and is also a current participant in the Newton Institute programme on Turbulence. On Thursday 31 March she gave a […]
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The project “Dynamic coupling in sloshing systems with multiple baffles“, led by Matt Turner, has been funded by the EPSRC Small Grants Panel. The project starts 1st October 2022 and runs for one year. The award is for £67.5K and provides 50% staff time and travel money. A link to the EPSRC page is here. […]
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The paper “Sticking around: Cell adhesion patterning for energy minimization and substrate mechanosensing“, co-authored by Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn and Carina Dunlop, has been published in the Biophysical Journal. It is published open access and is available here. The image below shows a simulation of cell deformation with a random placement of adhesive patches near the cell […]
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The paper “Inertial manifolds for 3D complex Ginzburg-Landau equations with periodic boundary conditions”, co-authored by Anna Kostianko (Imperial College London), Chunyou Sun (Lanzhou University), and Sergey Zelik, has been accepted for publication in the Indiana University Journal of Mathematics. A link to the arxiv version is here. The paper proves that the complex Ginzburg Landau […]
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