News Stories
Here are the latest news stories from Mathematics:
Grant awarded for research on ferrofluids
17 March 2010
Congratulations to David Lloyd on the award of an EPSRC First Grant for work on the “Nucleation of Ferro-Solitons and Localised Ferro-Patterns” (value: £99, 700). This will fund a two-year programme focusing on the analysis of localised ferro-patterns in equations describing experiments involving ferrofluids in the presence of a vertically directed magnetic field. The aim of the research is to provide theoretical insight for experimentalists working on ferrofluids (with Dr. Reinhard Richter, Bayreuth) and other solution bearing systems, while also providing new analytical techniques for free- boundary problems such as the ferrofluid problem (with Prof. Björn Sandstede, Brown).
Success in EPSRC ‘Bridging the Gaps’ application MILES
1 March 2010
Congratulations to Rebecca and her team (Co I’s Nigel Gilbert (Sociology), Paul Krause (Computing) and Johnjoe McFadden (Microbial Sciences)) on the success of their EPSRC ‘Bridging the Gaps’ application MILES (Models and Mathematics in LifE and Social Sciences). This is a 3 year programme that will support a diverse portfolio of activities aimed at promoting new research collaborations between mathematics, computing, the physical sciences and engineering and the life and social sciences. The grant is worth 636,899 pounds - and completes a 2009-10 EPSRC hat trick for Rebecca!
ERIE Complexity grant awarded
14 December 2009
The Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems (ERIE) grant has been awarded £3.2million by EPSRC. The bid is led by Prof. Nigel Gilbert, involving Drs. Rebecca Hoyle, David Lloyd and Anne Skeldon from the department of Mathematics, and will address a series of fundamental questions relating to the application of complexity science to social and economic systems. The programme of research aims to embed cutting-edge complexity science methods and techniques within prototype computational tools that will provide policymakers with realistic and reliable platforms for strategy-testing in real-world socio-economic systems. The other Co-Is are Drs. Lauren Basson and Angela Druckman (Centre for Environmental Strategy), Prof. Paul Krause and Dr. Sotiris Moschoyiannis (Computing Science).
