INI newsletter - May 2019 No Images? Click here (above) a virtual reality headset in use as part of the third workshop of the "Mathematical design of new materials" programme. INI NEWS BULLETIN Dear friends, associates and supporters of INI, Welcome to the May 2019 edition of our monthly news bulletin. In this release you will find the following 10 stories: 1. INTERVIEW: read Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow Professor Donatella Marini's thoughts on virtual element methods, talented women and collaborative working. Would you like to direct colleagues or associates to our newsletter sign-up page? Simply forward them this link: bit.ly/inisignup Contact: communications@newton.ac.uk (above) a blackboard produced as part of the ongoing "The Fickle Heart" programme. 1. INTERVIEW: Kirk Fellow Professor Donatella Marini's thoughts on virtual element methods, talented women and collaborative working Launched in January 2019, the Isaac Newton Institute now proudly hosts the “Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellowship” (KDVF) scheme. Designed to support and promote underrepresented groups in mathematics, the recipients so far are all female mathematicians of the highest regard.In the third of a series of interviews, we spoke to the Kirk Fellow for "Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations” (GCS) programme Professor Donatella Marini (Pavia) about her speciality in "virtual element methods", her thoughts on talented women and the realities and rewards of collaborative working.Links to interviews with other Kirk Fellowship figures can be found at the bottom of the article. 2. PODCAST OF THE MONTH: Kirk Fellow Professor Irene Fonseca tells INI about the power of academic interactions a love of painting and life as a "Dame". Launched in March 2019, the INI podcast series aims to highlight the diverse people and explore the many interconnected topics linked to the Institute's activities. In this latest episode we spoke to Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow Professor Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon). In it, she tells INI all about the power of academic interactions, the obligations placed upon high-achieving female mathematicians, a love of painting and being knighted by the "Military Order of St James of the Sword".
3. BONUS PODCAST: Professor Xian Chen (Hong Kong) speaks to INI about the popularity of interdisciplinary events. Scheduled to run until 28 June, the six-month "Mathematical design of new materials" programme is now approaching its closing stages. In a short break between seminars of its third workshop , co-organiser Professor Xian Chen (Hong Kong) spoke to INI about interactions between the fields of mathematics and mechanics, potential outcomes of such activity and the popularity of interdisciplinary events in general.
4. VIDEO: watch footage of Professor Fonseca's Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow talk On Friday 10 May Professor Irene Fonseca delivered her Kirk Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecture "Variational Methods in Image Processing and in the Mathematical Analysis of Novel Advanced Materials". The talk's abstract and a link to the streamable recording follow below.
5. VIDEO: watch footage of Professor Eddie Anderson (Sydney)'s Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow talk. On Monday 29 April Professor Eddie Anderson delivered his Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecture "What do we agree on when we disagree? Forward contracts with private forecasts". The talk's abstract and a link to the streamable recording follow below.
6. VIDEO: watch footage of Professor Ronald DeVore (Texas A&M)'s Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow talk. On Tuesday 21 May Professor Ronald DeVore delivered his Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecture "Optimality of Algorithms for Approximation/Computation". A link to the streamable recording follows below. 7. ROTHSCHILD LECTURE: a preview of Professor Graeme Milton (Utah)'s forthcoming talk: "Metamaterials: composite materials with striking properties" (Monday 3 June @16:00) On Monday 3 June at 16:00, Professor Graeme Milton will be delivering his Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecture "Metamaterials: composite materials with striking properties". The talk is a public-facing keynote talk and all are welcome to attend. It will take place in INI's Seminar Room 1, and those who cannot make it in person can watch it streamed live via this link. An abstract of the talk follows below.
8. WORKSHOPS: three forthcoming workshops still open for applications. The following three workshops (associated with the "Bringing pure and applied analysis together via the Wiener-Hopf technique, its generalisations and applications" (WHT), "Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations" (CAT) and "Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations" (GCS) programmes) are soon to close their window for applications. We would advise any prospective participants to register their interest as soon as possible. WHTW01 "Factorisation of matrix functions: New techniques and
applications" CATW01 "The complex analysis toolbox: new techniques and perspectives" GCSW02 "Structure preservation and general relativity"
9. ARTICLE: "Knitting is Coding", read this NYTimes article about recent "Mathematical design of new materials" workshop participant Elisabetta Matsumoto (Georgia Tech). Elisabetta Matsumoto, Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, recently attended the INI workshop "Optimal design of soft matter - including a celebration of Women in Materials Science (WMS)" (13-17 May) as a participant. Published on the final day of that workshop, she is also the subject of the following NYTimes article which discusses her aim to "investigate the mathematics and mechanics of 'the ancient technology known as knitting'". 10. FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS/TALKS/EVENTS: looking forward to the month ahead at INI. > Workshop: Uncertainty quantification for cardiac models 5-7 June 2019 > Workshop: New trends and challenges in the mathematics of optimal design 10-14 June 2019 > Workshop: Approximation, sampling, and compression in high dimensional problems 17-21 June 2019 See all forthcoming INI events here: https://www.newton.ac.uk/events/calendar |