Congratulations to Kieran Boniface for passing his PhD confirmation examination. It was held today (Friday 26th March), and the examiners were Gianne Derks and Anne Skeldon. The title of Kieran’s project is “Models for mechanotransduction in tissues with applications to organoids and tissue engineering“. His project is supervised by Carina Dunlop. The figure below shows […]
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Masanori Hanada has been busy travelling the world this month, virtually, giving talks in five countries. On 16 March he spoke at Imperial College on “Encoding the hologram into matrices“. On 17 March he spoke at Swansea University on “Bulk geometry in gauge/gravity duality and color degrees of freedom“. He gave a talk on “Color […]
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Tommaso Macrelli and Martin Wolf are speaking this week at the YITP workshop “Homotopy Algebra of Quantum Field Theory and Its Application“, 24-31 March, in Kyoto and Online. Tommaso is speaking on “BV double copy from homotopy algebras. Part 2” and Martin is speaking on “Introduction to the BV formalism and homotopy algebras“. A link […]
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Cesare Tronci, along with Irene Burghardt (Frankfurt), Denys Bondar (Tulane), Igor Mezic (Santa Barbara), and François Gay-Balmaz (Paris), are organising a week-long conference during 19-23 April at the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation in Hanau, Germany. The conference topic is “Koopman Methods in Classical and Classical-Quantum Mechanics“. In addition to Cesare, speaking from Surrey are […]
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Rebekah Aspinwall, a final year BSc student in Mathematics, was an invited speaker at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Undergraduate Research Conference called “Tomorrow’s Mathematicians Today“. It was held on 6-7 March, hosted by the University of Greenwich, and delivered virtually. The title of Rebekah’s talk was “Mechanistic underpinning of phenomenological cancer […]
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The paper “Infinite energy solutions for weakly damped quintic wave equations in R^3“, co-authored by Xinyu Mei (Lanzhou University), Anton Savostianov (Uppsala University), Chunyou Sun (Lanzhou University), and Sergey Zelik, has been published in this month’s issue of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. A link to the published version is here, and a […]
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