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The 60Th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC 2018 The 60th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium BAMC 2018 Programme 26th - 29th March 2018 Conference Programme Monday 26th March Tuesday 27th March Wednesday 28th March Thursday 29th March Registration 8:00 – 8:45 (Physics Foyer) Conference Opening 8:45 – 9:00 (Physics A) 9:00 – 9:30 Plenary : Plenary: Plenary: Philippa Browning Coralia Cartis David Abrahams 9:30 – 10:00 (Physics A) (Physics A) (Physics A) Minisymposia and Morning Coffee Morning Coffee Morning Coffee Contributed Talks 10:00 – 10:30 (Physics/Medicine) (Physics/Medicine) (Physics/Medicine) 10:30 – 11:00 Morning Coffee 11:00 – 11:30 Minisymposia and Minisymposia and Minisymposia and (Physics/Medicine) Contributed Talks Contributed Talks Contributed Talks 11:30 – 12:00 Plenary: Luigi Preziosi 12:00 – 12:30 (Physics A) Wrap Up and Prizes 12:30 – 13:00 (Physics A) Lunch Lunch Lunch 13:00 – 13:30 (Physics/Medicine) (Physics/Medicine) (Physics/Medicine) Lunch 13:30 – 14:00 (Physics/Medicine) 14:00 – 14:30 14:30 – 15:00 Minisymposia and Minisymposia and Minisymposia and Contributed Talks Contributed Talks Contributed Talks 15:00 – 15:30 15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Tea Afternoon Tea Afternoon Tea 16:00 – 16:30 (Physics/Medicine) (Physics/Medicine) (Physics/Medicine) Stewartson Memorial IMA 16:30 – 17:00 EMS Public Lecture: Lecture: Lighthill Lecture: Carlos Frenk Alfio Quarteroni Reidun Twarock (Physics A) 17:00 – 17:30 (Physics A) (Physics A) 17:30 – 18:00 EMS Wine Reception Poster Session and Poster Session Reception (Physics Foyer) 18:00 – 19:00 (Physics Foyer) (Lower College Hall) Conference Dinner 19:00 – (Old Course Hotel) Monday 26th March 2018 Physics A Physics B Physics C Maths B Maths C Maths D 10:30 — 12:30 MS 1 MS 2 MS 3 UKMHD 1 CT 1 CT 2 UKMHD 2 14:00 — 16:00 MS 4 MS 5 MS 6 CT 3 CT 4 (13:30 start) Tuesday 27th March 2018 Physics A Physics B Physics C Maths B Maths C 10:30 — 12:30 MS 7 MS 8 MS 9 UKMHD 3 CT 5 UKMHD 4 14:00 — 16:00 MS 10 MS 11 MS 12 CT 6 (13:30 start) Wednesday 28th March 2018 Physics A Physics B Physics C Maths B Maths C 10:30 — 12:30 MS 13 MS 14 CT 7 UKMHD 5 CT 8 14:00 — 16:00 MS 15 MS 16 CT 9 CT 10 CT 11 Thursday 29th March 2018 Physics A Physics B Physics C Maths B Maths C 9:00 — 11:00 MS 17 MS 18 CT 12 CT 13 CT 14 Plenary Talks and Named Lectures Room: Physics A Monday 26th March 2018 TIME 9:00 Philippa Browning Manchester Relaxation, reconnection and avalanches in solar and laboratory plasma magnetic flux ropes Chair: Alan Hood 16:30 Alfio Quarteroni Politecnico di Milano Numerical models for the heart function Chair: David Abrahams Tuesday 27th March 2018 TIME 9:00 Coralia Cartis Oxford Optimization with expensive and uncertain data - challenges and successes Chair: Charles Elliott 16:30 Carlos Frenk Durham Clues to the identity of the dark matter in our local neighbourhood Chair: Thomas Neukirch Wednesday 28th March 2018 TIME 9:00 David Abrahams Isaac Newton Institute How to Build an Acoustic Metamaterial in Three Days Flat and Other Tall Stories Chair: Karen Page 16:30 Reidun Twarock York Geometry as a Key to the Virosphere: New Insights into Virus Structure, Assembly, Evo- lution & Therapy Chair: John King Thursday 29th March 2018 TIME 11:30 Luigi Preziosi Politecnico di Torino Multi-level mathematical models for cell migration in dense fibrous environments Chair: Mark Chaplain Minisymposia Session MS 1 Monday 26th March 2018, 10:30-12:30 Room: Physics A From Cell to Tissues: Multiscale Mathematical Approaches for Collective Cell Migration in Cancer Growth and Spread Organiser and Chair: Dr D Trucu (Dundee) TIME 10:30 Talal Alzahrani Dundee Multiscale modelling of cancer response to viral therapy 11:00 Victoria Ponce Bobadilla Heidelberg A quantitative framework for understanding cancer cell invasion through in vitro scratch assays 11:30 Arran Hodgkinson Montpellier Spatio-metabolic modelling elucidates resistance and re-sensitisation to treatment in heterogeneous melanoma 12:00 Fiona Macfarlane St Andrews Modelling the immune response to cancer: an individual-based approach accounting for the difference in movement between inactive and activated T cells Session MS 2 Monday 26th March 2018, 10:30-12:30 Room: Physics B Waves in Fluids Organisers and Chairs: Dr A Athanassoulis (Dundee) & Dr M Carr (St Andrews) TIME 10:30 Ricardo Barros Loughborough Strongly nonlinear effects on mode-2 ISW 10:54 Ton van den Bremer Edinburgh The wave-induced flow of internal gravity wavepackets with arbitrary aspect ratio 11:18 Bertrand Kibler Bourgogne Ubiquitous modulation instability: complex breathing scenarios in optics and hydro- dynamics 11:42 Miguel Onorato Torino On the origin of non Gaussian statistics in equations of the Nonlinear Schrdinger type 12:06 Danielle Wain Bath Lateral transport by mode-two internal waves in an enclosed basin Session MS 3 Monday 26th March 2018, 10:30-12:30 Room: Physics C Numerical Analysis Meets Mathematical Biology Organisers and Chairs: Dr I Kyza (Dundee) & Dr M Ptashnyk (Heriot-Watt) TIME 10:30 Charles Elliott Warwick ABC for surface PDEs 10:54 Ping Lin Dundee A consistency study of coarse-grained models for a large dynamical particle system 11:18 Anotida Madzvamuse Sussex Coupled bulk-surface reaction-diffusion systems: modelling, analysis and simulations 11:42 Björn Stinner Warwick Finite element approximation of geometric PDEs coupled with surface PDEs 12:06 Chandrasekhar Venkataraman St Andrews Modelling receptor-ligand interactions Session MS 4 Monday 26th March 2018, 14:00-16:00 Room: Physics A Multi-scale Soft Tissue Modelling: Upscaling from Cell to Tissue Organisers: Dr P Stewart (Glasgow), Prof R Ogden (Glasgow), Prof S McDougall (Heriot-Watt) & Dr P Watton (Sheffield) TIME 14:00 Hanadi Alzubadi Dundee A travelling wave analysis of a prolfierating cell population 14:20 Roxanna Barry Glasgow Discrete-to-continuum modelling of hyperelastic cells 14:40 John King Nottingham Multiphase modelling of tissue growth 15:00 Giulia Pederzani Sheffield A mathematical model of cerebral vasospasm and comparison 15:20 Raimondo Penta Glasgow Homogenized modeling for vascularized poroelastic materials 15:40 Vasiliki Voulgaridou Heriot-Watt Ultrasound response to tumour induced angiogenesis Session MS 5 Monday 26th March 2018, 14:00-16:00 Room: Physics B Constitutive Modelling in Biomechanics Organisers and Chairs: Dr V Balbi (Galway) & Dr G Zurlo (Galway) TIME 14:00 Martine Ben Amar LPS ENS What do we learn about embryo-genesis with nano-ablation: the case of C-elegans elongation? 14:20 Ilaria Cinelli NUI Galway Head-to-nerve analysis of electro-mechanical impairments of diffuse axonal injury 14:40 Alexander Erlich Manchester Morphoelastic dynamics of one-dimensional bio-networks 15:00 Daniel Garcia Gonzalez Oxford A viscous-hyperelastic constitutive model for transverse isotropic soft tissues 15:20 Andrey Melnik Glasgow The generalised structure tensor approach for the mixed invariant I8 and its applica- tion to constitutive modelling of passive myocardium 15:40 Giuseppe Zurlo NUI Galway The constitutive response of bodies undergoing surface growth. Session MS 6 Monday 26th March 2018, 14:00-16:00 Room: Physics C Multiscale Analysis of Porous Media Organisers and Chairs: Dr K Daly (Southampton) & Dr D McKay-Fletcher (Southampton) TIME 14:00 Laura Cooper Warwick Multiphase flow in porous media 14:30 Keith Daly Southampton Combining homogenisation theory and image based modelling to predict the poro- elastic properties of multi-constituent soils 15:00 Simon Duncan Southampton Multiple scale asymptotic homogenisation of nutrient movement and crop growth in partially saturated soil 15:30 Daniel McKay-Fletcher Southampton A multi-image based approach for modelling plant-fertiliser interaction Session MS 7 Tuesday 27th March 2018, 10:30-12:30 Room: Physics A Optimal Control and Dynamic Games: Theory and Application Organisers and Chairs: Prof V Turetsky (Ort Braude College) & Prof A Tsourdos (Cranfield) TIME 10:30 Moshe Idan Technion, Israel Control strategies for linear systems with Cauchy distributed noises 10:50 Stéphane Le Menéc MBDA, France Linear differential game capture zones in the case of measurement errors 11:10 Eric Rogers Southampton Optimal control and estimation for long-range AUV missions 11:30 Martin Weiss Technion, Israel The minimize-effort-specify-performance approach to guidance algorithm design 11:50 Chang-Hun Lee Cranfield New insights into optimal control in guidance applications 12:10 Vladimir Turetsky Ort Braude College Tracking error and control effort trade-off in a robust trajectory tracking problem Session MS 8 Tuesday 27th March 2018, 10:30-12:30 Room: Physics B Conflicting Attitudes in the History of Mathematical Science Organiser and Chair: Dr I Falconer (St Andrews) TIME 10:30 Alex Craik St Andrews The hydrostatics of George Sinclair and Robert Boyle 11:00 Isobel Falconer St Andrews Maxwell, Kelvin, and the inverse square law of electrostatics 11:30 Ben Marsden Aberdeen William John Macquorn Rankine and the making of engineering science in nineteenth- century Glasgow 12:00 Mark McCartney Ulster ‘Graecum est legi non potest’: James Thomson Snr and the teaching of arithmetic, trigonometry and calculus in early 19th century Belfast. Session MS 9 Tuesday 27th March 2018, 10:30-12:30 Room: Physics C Frontiers and Challenges in Pattern Formation Organisers and Chairs: Dr A Krause (Oxford) & Dr T Woolley (Cardiff) TIME 10:30 Andrew Krause Oxford Emergent dynamics due to spatial heterogeneity in reaction-diffusion systems 10:54 Anotida Madzvamuse Sussex Cross-diffusion-driven instability for reaction-diffusion
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