Cambridge Core Blog
With the nomination period for the 2020 Batchelor Prize coming to a close at the end of the month (31st May 2019), Dr Tom Crawford spoke to the previous winners to find out more about the legacy of the award.
By bouncing elastic spheres across the surface of Bear Lake in Utah, researchers have discovered the physics behind stone skipping. The mechanism of ‘water walking’ occurs when a deformed sphere rotates continuously across the surface of the water giving the appearance that the sphere is literally walking on water.…
Cooking oil in a frying pan can be dangerous when the ‘explosive’ droplets touch your skin, but new research shows that they also increase the risk of indoor air pollution if not properly ventilated.…
Plesiosaurs ruled the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs with specially adapted flippers that enabled them to swim faster and with greater efficiency than any other animal.…
Rhonda Righter is joining the editorial board of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge in the area of stochastic modelling and optimization; read her full biography here.…
Forum of Mathematics has announced the appointment of six new members to their editorial board: Mohammed Abouzaid, Jacob Fox, Patricia Hersh, Bernhard Keller, Peter Keevash and Ulrike Tillmann.…
Renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar power are becoming commonplace across the world, but yet it often seems that we are still searching for the renewable resource that will revolutionise the energy industry.…
In recent years, applied analysis has seen an increase in interest in neural networks.
Q&A with Yuri A. Kuznetsov and Hil G. E. Meijer, authors of Numerical Bifurcation Analysis of Maps: From Theory to Software Why would you write in the age of Open Access?…
In support of International Women’s Day, we celebrate the contributions of 15 of the most influential women throughout the history of computer science.…
Cambridge is saddened by the passing of two remarkable mathematicians in recent weeks, Sir Michael Atiyah and Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer. Both men made an indelible mark in the subject, with Atiyah receiving the Fields Medal in 1966, and Swinnerton-Dyer postulating the Birch Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.…
The Australian Mathematical Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Mahony-Neumann-Room Prize. This award is given every year for outstanding contributions to the Society’s research publications, fittingly named after the founding editors of those journals.…