Taste of Research undergraduate seminars
These seminars by PhD students are designed to introduce year 2, 3 and 4 mathematics students to a taste of mathematics doctoral research.
Seminar details
For further information, please contact the organiser Dan Hill.
Time: 12 noon to 1pm.
Upcoming seminars
Speaker: Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn
Date: Thursday 27 February 2020
Venue: Lecture Theatre L
Title: Sensing some resistance: A mechanical model of a cell
Abstract: Cells respond differently depending on mechanical cues in their environment. Understanding these differences is crucial for tissue engineering and to understand how the mechanical micro-environment may affect, for example, cancer growth and invasion. In this seminar, we will present a force-balance model for the contraction of a cell; draw on techniques learnt in undergraduate courses to solve it; and show that this solution offers an insight into how a cell might sense the mechanical properties of its environment.
Speaker: TBA
Date: Thursday 14 May 2020
Venue: TBA
Title: TBA
A full list of Undergraduate Mathematics seminar series at the University of Surrey is available at Department of Mathematics seminars.