This is event is part of the Fry Conference Series, being held to celebrate the move of the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol to the recently refurbished Grade II listed Fry Building at the heart of the university campus.

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Speakers to include:

Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan

Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford

Peter Green, University of Bristol

Thomas House, University of Manchester

Po-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alon Orlitsky, UC San Diego

Judith Rousseau, University of Oxford

Sara van de Geer, ETH Zurich

This one day workshop will take place on Friday 23 October online.

Registrations have now closed.

Organisers: Michael Wilsher, Carl Dettmann and Justin Coon

The workshop will take place on a variety of platforms, with the main platform for the talks being on Zoom. For Zoom guidance please see the Zoom guidance participants

Please see guidance video on how to use Remo.

We will also be using Slack, as a way for speakers and participants to communicate during the workshop. Guidance on Slack can be found here

The event will start at 9:30 finishing at 16:30.

Programme:

University of Bristol

This is the first in a series of conferences being held to celebrate the move of the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol to the recently refurbished Grade II listed Fry Building at the heart of the university campus.

Taking place over three days, this online international conference features a distinguished line up of speakers, covering a broad range of topics in mathematical physics including quantum information, quantum field theory, integrable systems, random matrix theory and statistical physics. There will be a public lecture by Alexander Bobenko, The Discrete Charm of Geometry, on 20 January at 5:00 pm.

Speakers to include:
Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin)

Alexander Bufetov (Aix-Marseille Université)

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Bufetov’s talk has been cancelled. Please note the other session times will remain the same.

Harry Buhrman (CWI and QUSOFT)

Tom Claeys (UC Louvain)

Margherita Disertori (University of Bonn)

Eva-Maria Graefe (Imperial College)

Subir Sachdev (Harvard)

Sylvia Serfaty (New York University)

Registration is now open, please click here to register.

For more information please contact heilbronn-coordinator@bristol.ac.uk.

This event will be hosted virtually due to the current COVID-19 circumstances.

This event is open to all undergraduate and masters students who are considering applying for a PhD in mathematics.

Wednesday 11 November

13:00- 14:00 Panel with graduate students discussing their experiences and how they came to do a PhD

14:00- 14:05 Break

14:05- 14:50 Information from the Post Graduate team

14:50- 15:00 Break

Three practitioners of mathematics to speak about what they do and how they got there:

15:00-15:30 Industry speaker- Mairi

15:30- 16:00 Industry speaker- Dr Silvia Chiappa (Google DeepMind)

16:00- 16:30 Academic speaker- Henna Koivusalo (Bristol).

16:30- 17:00 Informal discussion

If you are interested in registering for this virtual event please see here.

The workshop will take place on a variety of platforms, with the main platform for the talks being on Zoom. For Zoom guidance please see the Zoom guidance participants

Further details for the Remo breaks will be circulated closer to the event.

We will also be using Slack, as a way for speakers and participants to communicate during the workshop. Guidance on Slack can be found here

Deadline for registrations: Tuesday 3 November

Monday 9th March, 4:00-5:00pm, The Fry Building, LG.02

Fluid dynamics of marine ice sheets

Abstract: Marine ice sheets flow on bedrock that is below sea level and terminate in floating ice shelves.  Fluid dynamics controls the location of the grounding line, where the ice sheet detaches from the bed rock and starts to float, which in turn determines the rate at which grounded ice is transported into the ocean and contributes to sea-level rise.  I will describe some simple laboratory experiments and associated mathematical models that capture the dynamics of marine ice sheets, highlighting the role of the floating shelves in buttressing the grounded ice sheet.  I will also describe a novel fluid-mechanical instability of shear-thinning, radially extensional flows that may describe certain longitudinal fractures in ice shelves. 

If you would like to attend this talk, please register by filling in this short registration form.

As always there will be a wine reception afterwards in the Staff Common room.