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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Masanori Hanada is giving a talk today (Wednesday 27 October) at the “YITP workshop QCD phase diagram and lattice QCD“. The conference is four days over 25-29 October, hosted by the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University. A link to the conference webpage is here. Masanori is speaking today on “Global Symmetries and Partial […]
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The paper “Existence and stability of kayaking orbits for nematic liquid crystals in simple shear flow“, co-authored by David Chillingworth (Southampton), M Gregory Forest (North Carolina), Reiner Lauterbach (Hamburg), and Claudia Wulff, has been published in the Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. A link to the (gold open access) electronic version of the paper […]
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