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.
Upcoming seminars
Speaker: Tom O'Neill
Time and date: 12 noon - 1pm on Thursday 7 November 2019
Venue: 02 AC 01
Title: Mathematics of the atmosphere on a large scale
Abstract: Being able to accurately predict the weather is both important and mathematically challenging due to the amount of forces and effects present in the atmosphere. There are a variety of approximations used for different scales; from local weather systems to hurricanes. The purpose of this talk will be to give a flavour of the thought processes behind such approximations, and how they are applied to so-called "large scale atmospheric flows". From Euler's equations for fluid motion, we derive the Semigeostrophic (SG) equations, a model predominantly used to describe the formation and movement of weather fronts. We will then explain how the SG Equations are used by the Met Office and discuss why we, as mathematicians, find them interesting in terms of trying to perform analysis on them.
A full list of Undergraduate Mathematics seminar series at the University of Surrey is available at Department of Mathematics seminars.