May 12 Celebration of Greek Women in Mathematics on May 20, 2024 !!!
Programme:
19:00-19:15 Welcome
19:15-19:30 Short Film
Title: Alicia Boole in the land of polytopes
19:30-20:15 Lecture
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Alexandra Tzella (University of Birmingham)
Title: Advection, diffusion and geometry: a new description of scalar dispersion
Abstract: The dispersion of a diffusive scalar released in a fluid flowing through network geometries has numerous applications across science and engineering: from vascular and respiratory flows, to porous media, water distribution, and urban pollution. Homogenisation theory provides a coarse-grained description of the scalar at large times and predicts that it diffuses with a certain effective diffusivity, so the concentration is approximately Gaussian. This description fails to capture the tails of the scalar concentration, however.
This talk addresses this issue and shows how the theory of large deviations can be applied to capture the concentration tails. Through a network model, we discuss the distinct role that geometry and topology plays in the non-Gaussian concentration. We also discuss the implications of the results for front propagation in reacting flows.
20:15-20:30 Short Film
Title: Kovalevskaya's Spinning Top
20:30-21:30 Discussion/Social Hour
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Our event is one of the numerous events that will be Celebrating Women in Mathematics around the world around May 12, 2024: See https://may12.womeninmaths.org
May 12th, 1977, is the birthdate of Maryam Mirzakhani. Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded the Fields Medal for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces, becoming the first woman, and the first Iranian, to be recognised for her mathematical achievements by this top mathematical prize. She died tragically from cancer in 2017 at the early age of 40.
On July 31st, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, the Women’s Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society presented to the participants of the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, (WM)², a proposal that Maryam Mirzakhani’s birthday – May 12th – be recognised and supported to celebrate women in mathematics.
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