Surrey Mathematics Research Blog

Congratulations to Lorenzo Raspollini for passing his PhD viva today (Wednesday 28th July)! Lorenzo‘s thesis is entitled “Higher gauge theory, BV Formalism and self-dual theories from twistor space“. The External Examiner was Alexander Schenkel (University of Nottingham) and the Internal was Alessandro Torrielli. His project was supervised by Martin Wolf. The image below shows a first-order Yang-Mills complex from his […]

The paper “The floating point: tales of the unexpected“, co-authored by David Faux (Physics, Surrey) and Janet Godolphin, has been published in the American Journal of Physics (link here). The paper explores issues associated with significant-figure limits, propagation of floating point representation error, and rounding. Examples are presented of unexpected ways in which the digital […]

The paper “Color confinement and Bose-Einstein condensation“, co-authored by Masanori Hanada, Hidehiko Shimada (Okinawa Institute and Kyoto University), and Nico Wintergerst (Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics. The final-form arXiv version is available here. This paper shows that color confinement in large-N gauge theory is […]

Congratulations to Tommaso Macrelli for passing his PhD viva on Wednesday 21 July! Tommaso’s thesis is entitled “Homotopy algebras, gauge theory, and gravity“. The External Examiner was Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt University) and the Internal was  Jan Gutowski. His project was supervised by Martin Wolf. The image below shows an diagram from Tommaso’s research.

Congratulations to Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn for passing her PhD viva on Tuesday 20 July! Josephine’s thesis is entitled “Mathematical modelling of cell-substrate adhesion patterns and their role in mechanosensing“. The External Examiner was Fabian Spill (Birmingham University) and the Internal was Gianne Derks. Her project was supervised by Carina Dunlop. Josephine will now take up an […]

The Templeton Foundation in the US has awarded a team, led by Professor Jim Al-Khalili and Dr Andrea Rocco in the Department of Physics, a grant of $3million for the project “Life on the Edge: quantum thermodynamics, quantum biology and the arrow of time“. Dorje Brody and Cesare Tronci are co-investigators. Cesare will be leading […]