Department News, March 2018

Many congratulations to Ryan Palmer for his recent successful PhD viva. Ryan was supervised by Martin Utley (CORU) and his thesis titled  ''Use of network analysis, and fluid and diffusion approximations for stochastic queueing networks to understand flows of referrals and outcomes in community health care''

Former PhD student Adam Townsend received a Dean’s Commendation in the MAPS Faculty Postgraduate Research Prize http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/maps-news-publication/postgraduate-prize-winners

James Cann presented a poster on his PhD research at the recent STEM for Britain held at Westminster http://www.setforbritain.org.uk/index.asp

Congratulations to PhD student Emily Maw who took part in the 2018 Voice of the Future event in parliament http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news-parliament-2017/royal-society-of-biologys-seventh-voice-of-the-future-17-19/

The following people have had recent success with the Royal Society International Exchange scheme:

Christian Boehmer: Modifications of teleparallel gravity models
Jason Lotay: Calibrated geometry and gauge theory
Felix Schulze: Optimal geometric inequalities and geometric flows

The scheme enables high-quality researchers to visit UCL mathematics.