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LML External Fellow Awarded Prestigious Prize for Young Research Scientists
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One of our LML External Fellows, Isaac Pérez Castillo from the Institute of Physics at UNAM Mexico, has been awarded the “Catédra Marcos Moshinsky 2017” in the area of Physical Sciences.
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New Mathematical Approach to Quantify Eigenvalue Fluctuations in Random Matrices
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Since the pioneering work of Wigner in the 50’s, random matrix theory has been playing a crucial role in the understanding of several problems in physics, such as the statistics of nuclear energies, quantum chaos and disordered electronic systems.
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Advanced Search Strategies in Anomalous Dynamics
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LML External Fellow Rainer Klages was awarded a research grant by the Office of Naval Research Global (USA) of US$117,000 to study how living organisms like cells, bumblebees or turtles optimize their search for food.
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Science on Screen: Dr. Strangelove with Sandra Chapman
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The third Science on Screen of the third series was presented by Sandra Chapman (Professor of Physics at University of Warwick), who chose Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. Sandra described some of the salient features of complex systems,
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Stochastic Chaos in a Turbulent Swirling Flow
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LML External Fellow Yuzuru Sato has recently reported the experimental evidence of the existence of stochastic chaos in a turbulent swirling flow. Together with co-authors (D. Faranda, B. Saint-Michel, C. Wiertel, V. Padilla, B. Dubrulle, and F. Daviaud), he shows that the […]
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Summer School 2017
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LML welcomed 8 project students to the summer school for 4 weeks in July/August. The students came from Cameroon, China, Japan, Israel, Italy, and the UK. For project descriptions and presentations, see Summer School 2017. Next year’s summer school will be announced […]
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Write About Science
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Part of what makes LML special is the atmosphere of open discourse that has developed here. Communicating our work, we find, is inseparable from doing that work in the first place.
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A recipe for irreproducibility
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During the 2016 LML summer school, Max and I ended up discussing the irreproducibility crisis in science, and that led to a draft manuscript, published today on the arXiv:1706.07773, see also this earlier blog post. Over the last few years several (apparently […]
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Science on Screen: Particle Fever with Semir Zeki
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The second Science on Screen of the third series was presented by Semir Zeki (Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL), who chose Dir Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever. Semir described how brain scans are now beginning to reveal centres of the brain associated with […]
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LML External Fellow Isaac Perez – New Paper
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LML External Fellow Isaac Perez has had his paper titled ‘Improving randomness characterization through Bayesian model selection’ accepted to Nature: Scientific Reports. The paper can he accessed here.