During 2019 a total of 26 awards were made through the IMA Small Grant Scheme. Funded applicants and activities included the following:
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| Leandro Betancourt
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To present their work at the SIAM meeting in Financial Mathematics in Toronto.
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| Luciana Bonatto
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Participation in the program Higher Categories and Categorification at the MSRI
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| Keith Briggs
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Costs of running the 18th Mathematics of Networks meeting, bringing together academics and industrial researchers in the UK who have an interest in network science regardless of discipline.
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| Alexander Brune
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Attendance of 19th French-German-Swiss conference on Optimization to give a talk.
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| Edmund Chadwick
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To host a workshop on applied mathematics related to using space-time expansion in the theoretical description of the early universe quantum mechanics and general relativity. This inclusion will provide a theoretical explanation for dark matter and dark energy.
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| Francesco Coghi
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A visit to Dr. Raphael Chetrite at the Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné in Nice (FR), there we would work on how to condition reset processes on large deviations, as may be relevant to understand a recent biological model of muscular contraction.
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| Justin Coon
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Towardsa a symposium on spatial networks with applications to engineering, to be held at Oriel College, Oxford.
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| Mohit Dawadi
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To present their research on the multiscale modelling of filtration at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in Valencia, Spain in July 2019.
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| Francisco de Melo Virissimo
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Collaborative teaching and research visit in order to foster multidisciplinary collaboration in mathematics, geophysics, atmospherical sciences and oceanography at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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| Carlos Fresneda-Portillo
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Organisation of the 12th UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods – UKBIM 12 which takes part at Oxford Brookes University.
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| Layal Hakim
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Towards the costs of the 9th Elasticity Day: Annual 1-day conference where mathematicians, engineers and scientists meet to showcase their research outputs and ideas for future work in the mathematical theory of waves and elasticity.
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| Jack Keeler
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Towards a three-day visit to Nottingham to work with Professor John King (Nottingham) and Dr Mark Blyth (UEA), on an asymptotic analysis of a challenging nonlinear problem arising in free-surface flows over topography.
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| Jochen Kursawe
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Towards the csts of presenting their research at the workshop ‘Bridging Cellular and Tissue Dynamics from Normal Development to Cancer: Mathematical, Computational, and Experimental Approaches’ at the Banff International Research Station in Alberta, Canada, running from 16-21 June 2019.
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| Fiona Macfarlane
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Attendance and presentation of research at the Society for Mathematical Biology 2019 conference, to be held at the University of Montreal, Canada.
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| Apala Majumdar
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Towards the cost of a visit and holding a colloquium at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia in Bulgaria.
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| Benjamin Morris
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Towards attending a focus week on the foundations of Quantum Information at the instituto de ciencias matemáticas in Madrid (23rd-27th September 2019).
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| Fionn Murtagh
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Support for Mathematical Hackathon at the University of Huddersfield. At the event academic mathematicians will spend a day working with industrial participants on industrial challenges.
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| Hannah Pybus
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Attend and present current research at the 6th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE 2019) at Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan.
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| Matthew Rees
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Towards the cost of a summer project to understand, extend and apply a Julia package by Sheehan Olver for the numerical solution of Riemann-Hilbert problems.
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| Andrea Santoro
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Participation at the workshop Complexity72h in Lucca, Italy.
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| Simon Shaw
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Partial support for four PhD students to attend the sixteenth MAFELAP (Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications) during 18 – 21 June 2019 at Brunel University London.
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| Katie Steckles
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Talking Maths in Public (www.talkingmathsinpublic.uk) is a conference for maths communicators in the UK which run every two years. We are seeking funding for our 2019 conference, taking place in Cambridge this summer and hoping to replicate the success of our previous event, which was well received.
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| Hurst Timothy
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To cover transport and accomodation costs for the upcoming 3rd IMA conference on dense granular flows, where I am presenting a talk on my work.
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| Carolina Torres
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To give a talk at the “URSI Commission B International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory” (http://volta.sdsu.edu/~emts/) that takes place from 27.05 to 31.05 in San Diego, US.
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| Mathew Tranter
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To attend the 3rd IMA Conference on Nonlinearity and Coherent Structures.
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| Ahmer Wadee
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Presenting an invited paper at the Structural Engineering Mechanics and Computation conference in Cape Town, South Africa (SEMC 2019, 2–4 September 2019); I also serve on the International Advisory Board for this conference and will be chairing one of the main plenary sessions.
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