The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University hosted a talk by Alessandro Torrielli today (Thursday 20 January). The talk was in the Centre for Particle Theory Colloquium series, and the title of the talk was “Integrable scattering of massless particles and the AdS/CFT correspondence.” After a brief introduction to some of the impact which […]
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Congratulations to Ryan Poole (shown in image left) for passing his PhD confirmation examination! It was held on Tuesday 18th January, and the examiners were Tom Bridges and Dave Lloyd. The title of Ryan’s project is “The effects of compliance on the stability of various flow configurations“. His project is supervised by Matt Turner with […]
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The paper “Supersymmetry enhancement of heterotic horizons“, co-authored by Daniele Farotti and Jan Gutowski, has been published open access (link here) in the January 2022 issue of Classical and Quantum gravity. The paper considers the near horizon region of supersymmetric extremal black holes in ten-dimensional heterotic supergravity. It investigates the necessary and sufficient conditions for […]
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Anne Skeldon and Derk-Jan Dijk (Director, Surrey Sleep Research Centre) are co-authors of Chapter 38 of a major two volume book on “Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine (Seventh Edition)”, published by Elsevier. The book has 2240 pages and 800 illustrations. Chapter 38 is entitled “Sleep homeostasis and models of sleep regulation.” A link to […]
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The paper “Inertial manifolds via spatial averaging revisited“, co-authored by Anna Kostianko (Imperial College London), Xinhua Li (Lanzhou University), Chunyou Sun (Lanzhou University), and Sergey Zelik, has been published in the SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis. The paper gives a comprehensive study of inertial manifolds for semilinear parabolic equations and their smoothness using the spatial […]
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The paper “Koopman wavefunctions and Clebsch variables in Vlasov–Maxwell kinetic theory“, co-authored by Cesare Tronci and Ilon Joseph (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), has been published in the Journal of Plasma Physics. A link to the published paper is here, and a link to the final form arxiv version is here. Motivated by recent discussions on […]
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