Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics

University of Cambridge


Fourteenth Cambridge/Oxford Applied Mathematics Meeting
Tuesday 16 June 2009 in MR2, CMS.

10.45-11.05 Morning Coffee


11.10-11.15 Ed Brambley Introduction and Timekeeping
11.15-11.30 Phil Trinh The Existence and Nonexistence of Splashless Ships
11.30-11.45 Chris Cawthorn Continuum Modelling of Granular Flows
11.45-12.00 Martin Stoll Design Optimization
12.00-12.15 Doug Speed Detecting Interactions in High Dimensional Regression Problems
12.15-12.30 Thomas Woolley How the Fish Got its Spots
12.30-12.45 Julien Landel Fast Rising Spherical Cap Bubbles with a Toroidal Bubbly Wake


13.00-14.00 Lunch


14.05-14.20 Philip Blakely Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion
14.20-14.35 Dave Hewett Bangs and Reverberations: Sound Propagation in an Urban Environment
14.35-14.50 Anthony Ashton A Pseudodifferential Approach to Fluid Loaded Elastic Plates
14.50-15.05 Cameron Hall Revenge of the Blob: a Story about Growth
15.05-15.20 Adrian Barker Tidal Evolution of Hot Jupiters
15.20-15.35 Rodrigo Platt Computing Functions with Chebfun


15.40-15.55 Afternoon Tea


16.00-16.15 Konstantinos Zygalakis Applications of Modified Equations for SDEs
16.15-16.30 Rosie Robison The Distortion of Turbulence near a Rotor
16.30-16.45 Rebecca Shipley From Fractals to Drug Delivery
16.45-17.00 Rich Wood Jets on Jupiter
17.00-17.15 Trevor Wood The Hunt for Red October: Mathematical Modelling of Submarine Tracking
17.15-17.30 Knut Drescher Dancing Volvox: Hydrodynamic Bound States of Swimming Algae


17.30-17.35 Prof. Amit Acharya & Prof. Graeme Wake Judging and Stuffed toys

17.35-Coach Refreshment in the Castle Pub (10 mins walk)


Postscript and pdf versions of this list are available.
Seminar management ID 2009-06-17