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Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students
The annual conference of Mathematics Research Students in Loughborough has been held since 2005. The Sir David Wallace Prize of £250 is awarded annually for the best presentation by a panel consisting of several members of staff and research students' representatives.
14th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2018
The 14th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Thursday 30 May 2018.
The 2018 Sir David Wallace Prize was awarded to Norbert Pintye (Supervisor: Artie Prendergast-Smith) for his talk entitled `Geometry of blown-up spaces’.
The judging panel consisted of Hamid Ahmadinezhad, Ricardo Barros, Jenya Ferapontov, Matt Tranter (last years’ winner) and research students attending the conference (Hayder Al-Saedi, Sobhi Berjawi, Tim Grange, Tiago Guerreiro, Ronan Kerr, Luis José Santana Sánchez).
Programme:
13:30-14:00 Jinrong Bao: Probabilities of separatrix crossing in rotation of a rigid body with changing geometry of masses
14:00-14:30 Juliet Ojiako: Mathematical modelling ofplasma interactions with liquid: hydrodynamic study
14:30-15:00 Erik Paemurru: Birational geometry of Fano 3-folds
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Antonis Parasyris: Mathematical and numerical modelling of a water purification device
16:00-16:30 Norbert Pintye: Geometry of blown-up spaces
16:30-17:00 Yiru Ye: Chaos and integrability in SL(2,R)-geometry
13th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2017
The 13th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Tuesday 30 May 2017.
The 2017 Sir David Wallace Prize was awarded to Matthew Tranter (Supervisor: Dr Karima Khusnutdinova) for his talk entitled 'On pure and radiating solitons in delaminated structures'.
The judging panel consisted of Ricardo Barros, Jenya Ferapontov and research students attending the conference (Hayder Al-Saedi, Yan Luo, Morgan Walters, Yiru Ye).
Programme:
13:30-14:00 Blesson Chacko: Solvent fluctuations around nanostructures and interactions between them
14:00-14:30 Calum Horrobin: Stokes' phenomenon arising in the confluences of some Painlevé equations
14:30-15:00 Jinrong Bao: Separatrix crossing in rotation of a body with changing geometry of masses
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Kaicheng Sheng: Bifurcations of phase portraits of pendulum with vibrating suspension point
16:00-16:30 Matt Tranter: On pure and radiating solitons in delaminated structures
12th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2016
The 12th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Thursday 19 May 2016.
The 2016 Sir David Wallace Prize was awarded to Joe Cook (Supervisor: Alex Strohmaier) for his talk entitled `Symmetry and low lying eigenvalues’.
The judging panel consisted of Jenya Ferapontov, Maureen McIver, Artie Prendergast-Smith and a group of research students attending the conference.
Programme:
14:00-14:30 Pierpaolo Calligaris: Finite orbits of the braid group action on certain algebraic variety
14:30-15:00 Joe Cook: Symmetry and low lying eigenvalues
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Calum Horrobin: Confluence of the Hypergeometric Equation
16:00-16:30 Yu Liu: Numerical Approximation of Random Periodic Solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations
16:30-17:00 Katie Spalding: Lyapunov spectrum of Markov and Euclid trees
11th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2015
The 11th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 13 May 2015.
The 2015 Sir David Wallace Prize was awarded to Andrea Savoldi (Supervisors: Jenya Ferapontov and Paolo Lorenzoni, Milano-Bicocca)for his talk entitled `Hamiltonian operators and differential geometry’.
This decision was reached by the judging panel consisting of Wael Bahsoun, Jenya Ferapontov, Maureen McIver and William Haese-Hill (last year’s winner).
Programme:
14:30-14:55 Vladimir Lukiyanov: Multiperverse cohomology
14:55-15:20 Andrea Savoldi: Hamiltonian operators and differential geometry
15:20-15:45 Morgan Walters: Solidification fronts and crystalline structure
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-16:40 Pierpaolo Calligaris: Finite orbits of the braid group action on certain algebraic variety
16:40-17:05 Calum Horrobin: Monodromy Data for the Painlevé Equations VI and V and their Confluence
17:05-17:30 Adam Hughes: What is the Shape of a Liquid Droplet?
10th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2014
The 10th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 14 May 2014.
The 2014 Sir David Wallace Prize was William Haese-Hill (Supervisors: Martin Hallnas and Sasha Veselov) for his talk entitled `Spectrum of the Complex Lamé Equation’.
This decision was reached by the judging panel consisting of Wael Bahsoun, Thomas Bartsch, Jenya Ferapontov, Maureen McIver and Greg Roddick (research students’ representative).
Programme
14:00-14:25 Azwani Alias: Coupled Ostrovsky equations for internal waves in a three layer shear flow
14:25-14:50 William Haese-Hill: Spectrum of the Complex Lamé Equation
14:50-15:15 Adam Hughes: Wetting of Liquids on a Surface
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:10 Liangpan Li: On mollified counting functions of Dirac-type operators
16:10-16:35 Ilia Roustemoglou: Discrete integrable systems in 3D: classification and numerical simulations
16:35-17:00 Miao Yu: Using on-the-fly kinetic Monte Carlo method to model CdTe Thin Film growth
9th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2013
The 9th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Thursday 23 May 2013.
The joint winners of the 2013 Sir David Wallace Prize were Zainab Al-Tooq (Supervisor: Steven Kenny) for her talk entitled `Modelling radiation damage in fcc Ni with relation to the experimental results and Michael Bironneau (Supervisor: Alexander Strohmaier) for his talk `Computational aspects of spectral invariants on Euclidean domains’
This decision was reached by the judging panel consisting of Wael Bahsoun, Jenya Ferapontov, Eugenie Hunsicker, Maureen McIver and research students’ representatives, Ilia Roustemoglou and Tomas Lazauskas.
Programme:
13:30-13:55 Zainab Al-Tooq: Modelling radiation damage in fcc Ni with relation to the experimental results
13:55-14:20 Michael Bironneau: Computational aspects of spectral invariants on Euclidean domains
14:20-14:45 Kyriaki Giorgakoudi: Foot-and-mouth disease virus, epithelial cell death and PDE models
14:45-15:10 Xiao Gai: Helium cluster in iron
15:10-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:05 Scott Dickson: Stochastic neural networks: connectivity, configuration and size
16:05-16:30 Ye Luo: Long time behavior of the Stochastic Functional Differential Equations
16:30-16:55 Adam Newman: Quantum Chaos for 2D Point-Perturbed Billiards
16:55-17:20 McSylvester Omaba: On some properties of stochastic heat equation driven by space-time Levy noise.
8th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2012
The 8th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 23 May 2012.
The 2012 Sir David Wallace Prize was Tomas Lazauskas (Supervisor: Roger Smith) for his talk entitled`Simulating radiation damage in Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) steels: Multi time-scale study'.
The judging panel consisted of Andrew Archer, Wael Bahsoun, Gavin Brown, Jenya Ferapontov, Marta Mazzocco and research students' representatives Kieron Moore and Ben Carter.
Programme:
13:00-13:25 Stuart Andrew: Monodromy free Schrodinger operators and a related inverse problem
13:25-13:50 Richard Clift: Undular bore theory for the Gardner equation
13:50-14:15 Tomas Lazauskas: Simulating radiation damage in Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) steels: Multi time-scale study
14:15-14:40 Kamil Mroz: Estimates of the eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on closed hyperbolic manifolds
14:40-15:10 Coffee break
15:10-15:35 Louis Omenyi: Variation of determinants of the Laplacian on Riemannian Manifolds
15:35-16:00 Dragomir Tsonev: Indefinite metrics realising holonomy algebras
16:00-16:25 Kenneth Uda: Random periodic solutions of Random Dynamical Systems generated by Stochastic Differential Equations
16:25-16:50 Yue Wu: Pathwise Random Periodic Solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations
7th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2011
The 7th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 18 May 2011.
The 2010 Sir David Wallace Prize was Ben Carter (Supervisor: Phil McIver) for his talk entitled `Water-wave propagation through an infinite array of floating structure'.
The judging panel consisted of Jenya Ferapontov, Martin Hallnas, Maureen McIver, Brian Winn and a research students’ representative.
Programme:
13:00-13:30 Ben Carter Water-wave propagation through an infinite array of floating structure
13:30-14:00 Kyriaki Giorgakoudi Initial models of foot-and-mouth disease infection in cattle
14:00-14:30 Graham Kemp Geometric quantization of Dirac monopoles
14:30-15:00 Chris Marsden Unsupervised learning by a dynamical system - a non neural network approach
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Kieron Moore Initial-value problem for Boussinesq-type equations
16:00-16:30 Tan Su On the accuracy of conservation of adiabatic invariants in slow-fast systems
16:30-17:00 Dragomir Tsonev An example of holonomy on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
6th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2010
The 6th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 19 May 2010.
The 2010 Sir David Wallace Prize was Adrian Hemery (Supervisor: Sasha Veselov) for his talk entitled `Zeroes of generalised Hermite polynomials in the complex domain '.
This decision was reached by the panel consisting of Jenya Ferapontov, Maureen McIver, Brian Winn and Graham Kemp (research students’ representative).
Programme:
14:00-14:30 Fathi Bribesh: Thin films of binary mixture of liquids and their bifurcation
14:30-15:00 Shiyan Guo: Elastic wave propagation through doubly-periodic arrays of cylinders
15:00-15:30 Adrian Hemery: Zeroes of generalised Hermite polynomials in the complex domain
15:30-16:00 Paul Jones: Unitary double product integrals as implementors of Bogoliubov transformations
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Mark Robbins: Pattern formation in the evaporation of two-component fluids
17:00-17:30 Nikola Stoilov: Integrable Hamiltonian systems of hydrodynamic type in 2+1 dimensions
17:30-18:00 Wei King Tiong: Evolution of solitary waves and undular bores: perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation
5th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2009
The 5th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 27 May 2009.
Programme:
13:00-13:30 Gurjeet Bagri: Three dimensional doubly periodic travelling gravity-capillary water waves with infinite depth
13:30-14:00 Fathi Bribesh: Thin Films of Binary Mixture of Fluids
14:00-14:30 Lenos Hadjikos: Equations of the dispersionless Hirota type
14:30-15:00 Adrian Hemery: Periodic Schrodinger operators: the Whittaker-Hill equation and it's transformations
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Sam King: Evaluating the Impact of Electronic Voting Systems on Student Experience, Engagement and Achievement in University Mathematics.
16:00-16:30 Antin Leszczyszyn: Transcritical Flows in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
16:30-17:00 Andrei Yevik: Numerical solutions of stochastic differential equations
17:00-17:30 Pumei Zhang: Algebraic properties of compatible Poisson brackets
4th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2008
The 4th Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held on Tuesday 27 May 2008.
The 2008 Sir David Wallace Prize was awarded to Nikos Roidos (Supervisors: Alex Strohmaier and Eugenie Hunsicker) for his talk entitled `Analysis of the Laplacian on the generalized cusps '.
The judging panel consisted of Jenya Ferapontov, Maureen McIver and Najida Begum (research students’ representative).
Programme:
14:00-14:30 Nikos Roidos: Analysis of the Laplacian on the generalized cusps.
14:30-15:00 Sandhya Patidar: Controlling Dynamics of Stochastic Neural Networks: An Analytical Approach.
15:30-15:30 Asma Al-Ghassani: Analogues of Painleve equations
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Stephanie Thomas: The Effect of Corrugation on the Stability of Compressible Shear Layers
16:30-17:00 Ioan Vancea: On the study of front instabilities of dewetting fronts in nanoparticle suspensions using Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations.
17:00-17:30 Fajin Wei: Stationary solution of SPDE.
3rd Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2007
The 3rd Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 6 June 2007.
Programme:
14:00-14:30 Sandy Patidar: Time-Delayed Feedback control of Noise-Induced Dynamics in the Model of a Neural Network
14:30-15:00 Pavel Burovskiy: On the integrability of second order PDEs in three dimensions
15:00-15:30 Adrian Hemery: Spectra of Manifolds
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Nikos Roidos: The heat kernel of the Laplacian and the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem
16:30-17:00 Daniel Riccombeni: Equilibrium points for finite-dimensional integrable Hamiltonian systems
2nd Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2006
The 2nd Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 17 May 2006.
Programme:
14:00-14:30 Marie-Pierre Grosset: `Elliptic Bernoulli polynomials’
14:30-15:00 Evans Osaisai: `Waves and Currents in the Near-shore Zone’
15:00-15:30 Qi Zhang: `Pathwise Stationary Solutions of SPDEs and BDSDEs on Infinite Horizon’
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Prakash Sarnobat: 'Wahlquist exterior: Second order physical interpretation’
16:00-16:30 Will Morgan: `Rational points on elliptic curves and the addition law’
1st Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students - 2005
The First Annual Conference of Mathematics Research Students was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 18 May 2005.
Programme:
14:00-14:20 Chris Davison: `The Topology of Geodesic Flows for the Three Ellipsoid’
14:25-14:45 Prakash Sarnobat: `Rotating Relativistic fluids’
14:50-15:10 Chunrong Feng: `Two-parameter Rough Path and Integration of LocalTimes’
15:15-15:35 Will Morgan `Integrable difference equations’
15:35-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:20 James Smith: 'Local-scale modelling of the spatial spread of Japanese knotweed in the United Kingdom'
16:25-16:45 Promise Mebine: `Ray Approximation for Steady Discharges in Shallow Water’
16:50-17:10 Sven Schmidt `A Poincare section for the general heavy rigid body’
17:15-17:35 Iman Mohamed Omar EL-Nabrawy `n-D Polynomial Matrix Structure with System Applications’
