Understanding the mechanical behaviour of solids, liquids and soft and biological materials requires insight into phenomena at different length scales (from bacterial films to volcanic flows). They are both a scientific challenge and an important technological problem. An overarching framework is provided by the name “micro-mechanics”. Combining techniques from continuum mechanics, dynamical systems and statistical mechanics, micro-mechanics uses knowledge of their microscopic structure to make predictive models of the mechanical properties of liquids, solids and soft matter.

Taking place over two days, this international conference features a distinguished line up of speakers, covering a broad range of topics in the micro-mechanics of fluids and materials.

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:

Lydia Bourouiba, MIT [Public Lecture]

Mike Cates, University of Cambridge

Elisabeth Guazzelli, University of Paris

Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania

Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

Detlef Lohse*, University of Twente

Cristina Marchetti, UC Santa Barbara

Howard Stone, Princeton University

Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford

*Virtual talk

UPDATE: BJB90 has been rescheduled to 22nd April 2022. All original registrants will be transferred to the new date.  

A one day conference to celebrate the 90th birthday of Bryan Birch and his many lasting contributions to number theory.

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Biography

Bryan Birch was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge where as a doctoral student he proved Birch’s theorem, one of the results to come out of the Hardy–Littlewood circle method; it shows that odd-degree rational forms in a large enough set of variables must have zeroes.

He then worked with Peter Swinnerton-Dyer on computations relating to the Hasse–Weil L-functions of elliptic curves. They formulated their conjecture relating the rank of an elliptic curve to the order of a certain zero of an L-function; it has been an influence on the development of number theory since the mid 1960s. They later introduced modular symbols.

In later work he contributed to algebraic K-theory (Birch–Tate conjecture). He then formulated ideas on the role of Heegner points (he had been one of those reconsidering Kurt Heegner’s original work, on the class number one problem, which had not initially gained acceptance). Birch put together the context in which the Gross–Zagier theorem was proved. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972; was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize in 1993 and the De Morgan Medal in 2007. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2020 he was awarded the Royal Society’s Sylvester Medal for his work in driving the theory of elliptic curves through the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and the theory of Heegner points. The Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is one of the Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Problems.

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

This event will be held in G.10, Fry Building.

Programme 

13:00 – 14:00 Graduate student panel

14:00 – 14:30 Industry speaker – Kathryn Leeming, British Geological Survey

14:30 – 15:00 Industry speaker – Laura 

15:00 – 15:15 Break 

15:15 – 15:45 Academic speaker – Asma Hassanezhad, University if Bristol

15:45 – 16:30 Information from the Post Grad team 

16:30 – 17:00 Informal discussions 

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Contact information

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14:00 – 15:00pm

Online, Zoom Webinar

We’re very excited to welcome Emmanuel Breuillard (University of Cambridge), as a Heilbronn Virtual Visiting Professor.

Title: Approximate groups

Abstract: Symmetry is one of the most fundamental concepts of science and mathematics. Group theory is the field of mathematics devoted to its study. In this lecture we will discuss various situations where symmetry is present only partially and where a notion approximate symmetry arises naturally. In group theory this leads to the notion of approximate group, which has been much studied in the last twenty years in connection with various fields including additive combinatorics, harmonic and fractal analysis, asymptotic finite group theory, geometric group theory, ergodic theory and even logic and model theory. The lecture will introduce this concept and present some recent developments.

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An additional talk will be given by Emmanuel Breuillard as part of the Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Seminars. For further information please the event website.

Online, Zoom Webinars

We’re pleased to announce that Amie Wilkinson’s (University of Chicago) postponed Distinguished Lecture series from May 2020 has now been rescheduled to May 2021. The colloquia details will be confirmed shortly. Visit the event website for further information.

The talks will be over three days:

10 May 2021, 16:00 – 17:00

12 May 2021, 16:00 – 17:00

14 May 2021, 16:00 – 17:00

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