Past research events

A three-day workshop held 16-18 September 2019.

A three day workshop which covered various topics in Probability and Mathematical Physics including random matrices, free probability, and branching processes. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss some recent developments in these areas, and to explore future directions for common interactions. This is also the occasion to celebrate the new appointments of mathematicians at Sussex.

Speakers included:

Natasha Blitvic (Lancaster University)
Yan Fyodorov (Kings College London)
Bénédicte Haas (Université Paris 13)
Mylène Maïda (Université de Lille)
Francesco Mezzadri (University of Bristol)
Matt Roberts (University of Bath)
Nina Snaith (University of Bristol)
Jon Warren (University of Warwick)
Alex Watson (University College London)

The workshop consisted of three one-day mini-conferences, each devoted to a special topic:

Random Matrices and Applications
Branching Processes and Their Applications
Randomness, Symmetry and Free Probability.

A conference on Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory took place at the Department of Mathematics between 2-4 July 2018.

The following speakers gave presentations:

Jonas Azzam (University of Edinburgh)
Lisa Beck (University of Augsburg)
Marco Cicalese (TUM, Munich)
Matías Delgadino (Imperial College, London)
Guido De Philippis (SISSA, Trieste)
Alessio Figalli (ETH, Zurich)
Nicola Fusco (University "Federico II", Naples)
Vesa Julin (University of Jyväskyla)
Maria Giovanna Mora (University of Pavia)
Massimiliano Morini (University of Parma)
Filip Rindler (University of Warwick)
Lucia Scardia (University of Bath)
Michiel van den Berg (University of Bristol)

The conference was supported by EPSRC Grant "Symmetry of Minimisers in Calculus of Variations".

A three day workshop which covered topics including Analysis, Probability and Applications and took place within the Department of Mathematics between 24-26 January 2018.

The purpose of the workshop was to discuss recent developments in these areas, and to explore future directions for common interaction. 

Speakers included:

John Ball (Oxford)
Denis Denisov (University of Manchester)
Andrew Duncan (Sussex)
Dmitry Korshunov (University of Lancaster)
Konstantinos Koumatos (Sussex)
Grigorios Pavliotis (Imperial College London)
Michela Ottobre (Heriot-Watt)
Lucia Scardia (University of Bath)
Vladislav Vysotsky (Sussex)

The workshop consisted of three one-day mini-conferences, each devoted to a special topic:

Wednesday 24th January: Day on Mathematics of Material Science
Thursday 25th January: Day on Diffusions: Theory and Applications
Friday 26th January: Day on Markov Chains. 

University of Sussex Mathematics School along with Innovate UK‘s Knowledge Transfer Network ran a three-day Study Group on Mathematics in Energy Systems, between the 8-10 January 2018.

This three day session was an intense problem solving activity inviting some of Britain’s best mathematical scientists tackling some of the hardest problems in the energy systems industry. We have attracted problems across the energy systems area – from storage, network supply, integration etc.

The importance of new and novel energy solutions is highlighted in recent investments by Her Majesty’s Government. The Faraday Challenge, for example, is an investment of £246 million over 4 years to help UK businesses seize the opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, to ensure the UK leads the world in the design, development and manufacture of batteries for the electrification of vehicles. This connects to many mathematically challenging topics including modelling degradation, power management, and integration.

The following industry participants presented problems at the study group:

Williams Advanced Engineering
National Grid

The meeting was supported by Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network, by the Department of Mathematics and the University of Sussex through the Sussex Research Impact Fund.

A workshop held 18-22 September, 2017. 

Find out more about the Navier-Stokes and Euler Equations workshop.

The workshop was held over five days from Monday 26 June to Friday 30 June, with 20 hours of lectures and two hour discussions. There were also two contributed talks every day in which research students were invited to give 15 minute presentations on their work.

A workshop held 2-3 June 2016. 

A conference held 4-6 November 2015.

Abstract:

Mathematical models of geometric PDEs using deformable surfaces arise in an abundance of applications, for example in biophysics, chemistry, engineering, material science and plant biology. Due to the recent development of new ideas and methods in the field of moving free boundaries many important and challenging open problems have emerged. This interdisciplinary workshop brought together researchers from the distinct mathematical fields of modelling, numerical analysis and computation to discuss the challenges that result from such applications.

This workshop was a satellite meeting of the Newton Institute Programme 'Coupling Geometric PDEs with Physics for Cell Morphology, Motility and Pattern Formation'.

The following speakers gave presentations:

J.W. Barrett ( London)
S Bartels (Freiburg im Breisgau)
G Bellettini (Rome)
A Bertozzi (Los Angeles)
M Burger (Münster)
A Cangiani (Leicester)
A Chambolle (Paris)
K Deckelnick (Magdeburg)
A De Simone (Trieste)
P Dondl (Durham)
C.M. Elliott (Warwick)
X Feng (Tennessee)
H Garcke (Regensburg)
J King (Nottingham)
R Kornhuber (Berlin)
J Lowengrub (California)
A Marciniak (Heidelberg)
J MacKenzie (Strathclyde)
P Pozzi (Duisberg-Essen)
B Wirth (Münster)

Funding was provided by the Isaac Newton Institute.

Held 28 September 2015.

This was a one-day conference with the following speakers: 

Sasha Helemskii (Moscow)
Maria Fragoulopoulou (Athens)
Harold Garth Dales (Leeds/Lancaster)
Simon Blackburn (Royal Holloway)
Joseph Thas (Ghent)
James Hirschfeld (Sussex)
Ali Taheri (Sussex)

A conference held 7-8 September 2015.

The purpose of this meeting was to discuss recent developments in these areas, and to explore future directions for common interaction.

The following speakers gave presentations:

Gianni Dal Maso (SISSA, Trieste)
Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
Bernd Kirchheim (University of Leipzig)
Jan Kristensen (University of Oxford)
Giovanni Leoni (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
Jan Malý (Charles University in Prague)
Giuseppe Mingione (University of Parma)
Massimiliano Morini (University of Parma)
Michael Struwe (ETH, Zurich)
Neshan Wickramasekera (University of Cambridge)

The meeting was supported by LMS Conference Grants, by the School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, and by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Sussex.

A conference held at the Department of Mathematics, 15-16 April 2015.  

The following speakers gave presentations:

Peter Cameron (St Andrews)
David Edmunds (Sussex)
David Applebaum (Sheffield)
Dale Rolfsen (UBC Vancouver)
Michiel van den Berg (Bristol)
Neils Jacob (Swansea)
Roger Fenn (Sussex)

A workshop (intensive research week) on New Perspectives in Analysis and Probability which took place from Monday 2 to Friday 6 March 2015. The purpose of this workshop was to discuss recent developments in these areas, and to explore future directions for common interaction. The workshop consists of five one-day mini-conferences, each devoted to a special topic:

Monday 2 March: Quantum Systems, Probability and Non-local Operators
Tuesday 3 March: Phase Transitions
Wednesday 4 March: Geometric Structures in Materials
Thursday 5 March: Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory
Friday 6 March: Random Media

Invited Speakers included:

Marton Balazs (Bristol)
David Bourne (Durham)
Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff)
Francesco Ghiraldin (Zurich)
Eva-Maria Graefe (London)
Stefan Grosskinsky (Warwick)
Vassili Kolokoltsov (Warwick)
József Lörinczi (Loughborough)
Apala Majumdar (Bath)
Lucia Scardia (Bath)
Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick)
Nikolaos Zygouras (Warwick)

The meeting was supported by LMS Conference Grants, by the School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, and by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Sussex.

Held in the Department of Mathematics, 15-17 Sept 2014. 

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Held in the Department of Mathematics, 18-20 June 2014.

The following speakers gave presentations:

A Abdulle (Lausanne)
L Banjai (Edinburgh)
S Bartels (Freiburg im Breisgau)
AS Bonnet-Ben Dhia ( Paris)
E Burman (London)
SN Chandler-Wilde (Reading)
K Deckelnick (Magdeburg)
W Dahmen (Aachen)
X Feng (Knoxville)
E Georgoulis (Leicester)
P Goatin (Sophia Antipolis)
O Karakashian (Knoxville)
TD Katsaounis (Heraklion)
S Larsson ( Goteborg)
T Lelievre (Paris)
CB Schonlieb (Cambridge)
LR Scott (Chicago)
JA Sethian ( Berkeley)

Held in the Department of Mathematics, 24-28 March 2014.

The Department of Mathematics hosted an intensive research week on Calculus of Variations, Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.The event consisted of five mini-symposiums each consisting of a set of two or three lectures in the afternoons by some of the leading experts in the field, leaving the mornings for collaborations, discussions and research.

The following speakers gave presentations:

Andrea Braides (Oxford, UK)
Geoffrey Burton (Bath, UK)
José A. Carrillo (Imperial College, UK)
Camillo De Lellis (Zurich, Switzerland)
Adriana Garroni (Oxford, UK)
Jan Kristensen (Oxford, UK)
Rosario Mingione (Parma, Italy)
Mariapia Palombaro (Sussex, UK)
Thomas Schmidt (Erlangen, Germany)
Jey Sivaloganathan (Bath, UK)
Dimitrios Tsakarogiannis (Sussex, UK)
Nikolaos Tzirakis (Urbana-Champaign, USA)