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News and Forthcoming Events

We started the One World Dynamics Seminar.
Bath has been chosen as the new host of the LMS Symposia series and will be hosting these events for the next 5 years.
The software package MODOI (MOlecular Dynamics Over Ip), an implementation of the Birkhoff curve shortening procedure as a string method for Molecular Dynamics, is online. It is written by Daniel Sutton, funded by grant EPSRC EP/K027743/1.

There is a simpler version of the code available, online, also written by Daniel Sutton and funded by EPSRC grant EP/K027743/1. The difference between the codes is that MODOI is an implementation of the Birkhoff method using TCP/IP to distribute tasks over networked devices (rather than requiring HPC facilities). The second code, GeometricMD, is a stripped down version of MODOI, designed for HPC; it uses all the cores of the machine it runs on. So both codes implement exactly the same algorithm and only differ in the way they parallelise.

A barebone implementation is scikit-geodesic, see the documentation.

2018

Edward Fraenkel in conversation with John Ball: See Bath repository or Part 1 and Part 2 on Vimeo.
The Cardiff-Bath-Reading LMS Network on Generalised Solutions for Nonlinear PDEs received funding to continue its activities.

2017

The LMS is funding a South-West Network in Generalised Solutions for Nonlinear PDEs, with nodes at Cardiff, Reading and Bath.
LEF@90: We celebrated the 90th birthday of Edward Fraenkel with a meeting on 26 May 2017.

2016

The LMS is funding a South-West Network in Generalised Solutions for Nonlinear PDEs, with nodes at Cardiff, Reading and Bath. The first meeting took place in Bath on 22 February 2016.
The final meeting of the LMS Joint Research Group Analysis, Geometry and Stochastics for Planet Earth between Bath, Imperial and Reading took place on 26 February in Bath. More information is available on the web site.

2015

Workshop Challenges in statistical mechanics: from mathematics to molecular dynamics to technological applications, Imperial College, 7-10 December 2015
Amit Acharya was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor and Visiting Professor of Mathematical Sciences this autumn.
We received funding from the GW4 group in form of an Accelerator Grant Controlling Nucleation and Growth to Deliver Novel Materials Functionality. The other coordinators are David Wright in Exeter, Stefano Leoni in Cardiff and Isaac Chenchiah in Bristol.
The LMS funded a research group at Bath, Imperial and Reading at the triple point of analysis, stochastics and geometry.

2014

The first meeting of the LMS Joint Research Group Analysis, Geometry and Stochastics for Planet Earth between Bath, Imperial and Reading took place on 2 June in Reading. More information is available on the web site.
The kick-off meeting of the GW4 initiative `Functional Materials Far From Equilibrium' took place on 21 November in Bristol. The second meeting was held in Bath on 5 December.
We received funding from the GW4 initiative for a network `Functional Materials Far From Equilibrium'. The other coordinators are David Wright in Exeter, Nicolas Dirr in Cardiff and Isaac Chenchiah in Bristol.
Daniel Sutton joined in June, funded by the project Analysis of the effective long time-behaviour of molecular systems.
Marios Stamatakis joined in June, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, in a project with Nicolas Dirr.
A spring school Microscopic descriptions and mean-field equations in physics and social sciences took place in Bath 12-16 May 2014.

2013

Nadia Ansini joined us in August as an Intra-European Fellow, funded by the project Microstructures in Dynamic and Anisotropic Systems (MIDAS).
A CMS summer school `Microstructure: Evolution and Dynamics' will take place at the Technion, Haifa, 25-29 August 2013.
3-4 January: South West Regional PDE Winter School 2013 at the University of Bath.

2012

Dietmar Hömberg and I are running an industry day on 22 November, with a delegation from Nippon Steel visiting Bath.
Dietmar Hömberg is visiting Bath for semester 1 in 2012/13.

2011

Applications are invited for a University Research Studentship on Large deviation analysis of systems far from equilibrium. This project is jointly supervised with Peter Mörters (Mathematics) and Rob Jack (Physics). A project decription is available. See the scholarship page for more information.

2010

We are now part of the EU Initial Training Network Fronts and InteRfaces in Science and Technology.

2009

7-8 December 2009: Workshop Atomistic Models in Solids, a joint event between OxMOS and the network Mathematical Challenges of Molecular Dynamics. Organisers are John Ball, Jon Chapman, Gero Friesecke, Endre Süli, Weinan E and myself.
13 - 15 July 2009: The Second Annual Meeting of the EPSRC network Mathematical Challenges of Molecular Dynamics: A Mathematical-Chemical Forum will be held in Bath. Co-organisers are Graeme Ackland, Giovanni Ciccotti, Roman Schubert and Florian Theil.
A group picture for the Workshop Variational and Topological Methods and Water Waves, on the occasion of John Toland's 60th birthday, is now available online. As one can see, the healthy humidity of the English air seems to be mistaken by some visitors as rain.
14 - 16 May 2009: Workshop Variational and Topological Methods and Water Waves, Bath, organised jointly with Geoffrey Burton and L E Fraenkel.

2008

30 November - 6 December 2008: Workshop Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics, Oberwolfach, organised jointly with Wolfgang König and Peter Mörters.
30 June - 2 July 2008: BICS Workshop Lattice Models, Bath, organised jointly with Chris Budd, Giles Hunt and Srikanth Phani.

2007

3 December 2007: A new network Mathematical Challenges of Molecular Dynamics: A Mathematical-Chemical Forum will link nodes in Bath, Bristol, Edinburgh and Warwick.
11-17 February 2007: Mini-workshop Multiscale and variational methods in materials science and the quantum theory of solids, Oberwolfach, organised jointly with Isabelle Catto, Isaac Chenchiah and Ivan Veselić.

2006

11-15 September 2006: A Regional LMS Meeting and an associated workshop Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes will be held in Bath. The aim of this workshop is to bring together analysts and probabilists working on the mathematical description of growth phenomena. Models based on the physics of individual particles will be discussed alongside models based on the continuum description of large collections of particles. Subjects covered in the workshop include evolution equations, crystal growth, ferromagnetism, lattice gases, diffusion limited aggregation, variational calculus, curvature flows, and coarsening. Plenary speakers are Pierre-Louis Lions and Timo Seppäläinen. Organisers are Roger Moser, Peter Mörters, Mathew Penrose, Hartmut Schwetlick and myself.
26-30 June 2006: The Bath Institute for Complex Systems is organising a summer school Modelling Across the Scales. Lecturers include Carsten Carstensen , Rachel Kuske , Hans Mühlhaus and myself. This summer school is linked to the summer schoon Complex Networks: Analysis, Control and Applications held in Bristol in the following week (3-7 July 2006). Another related summer school ‘Dynamics of Complex Systems’ will be held at Imperial in 2006.
25 April 2006: Minisymposium Dissipative multi-scale models in materials science, organised jointly with Stephen Watson, as part of the BAMC Colloquium 2006, 24-27 April 2006.

2005