Seminars 2019-20
The group regularly holds a Wednesday afternoon seminar allowing visitors, staff and students to give a talk on their current work. Guests are very welcome; if you would like to participate by giving a talk please contact our seminar organiser, Dr Thomas Howson.
Unless stated otherwise, our seminars start at 1:30pm in Lecture Theatre A , Mathematical Institute, School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Seminar abstracts are revealed by moving the mouse pointer over the title. Visiting speakers are indicated by an asterisk.
A series of related seminars on Applied Mathematics can be found at http://www.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/appseminars.shtml and similarly for the University of Dundee at http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/news/events.php.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martinmas Semester: Sept - Dec 2019 | |||
| 25/09 | Prof Alan Hood | Coronal Heating | A |
| 02/10 | Prantika Bhowmik* | Prediction of sunspot cycle 25 and next decade of solar variability | A |
| 09/10 | Sandra Milena Conde Cuellar* | Analysis of coronal loop oscillations during flaring events | A |
| 17/10 | Peter Damiano* | Electron dynamics in kinetic scale field line resonances | D |
| 30/10 | Jamie Quinn* | The effect of anisotropic viscosity on the nonlinear kink instability | A |
| 06/11 | Thomas Neukirch | (A couple of remarks on) Force-free collisionless current sheets | A |
| 13/11 | Thomas Howson | Heating in a Coronal Arcade | A |
| 20/11 | Petros Syntelis | Solar eruptions across different scales | A |
| 27/11 | Paolo Pagano | What MHD waves have to do with coronal heating? | A |
| 04/12 | Duncan Mackay | Is a prominence a flux rope or a sheared arcade? | A |