Posts By: Janet Fillingham

MPE CDT Reading student Cathie Wells has been awarded The Ivar Isaksen Prize for best early career presentation at The 3rd ECATS Conference (Network of Excellence on Aviation and Environment).  The conference had been due to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden in April.  Unfortunately due to the Covid19 outbreak, it was delayed until 13th to… Read more »

Lead Author: Ieva Dauzickaite, Maths of Planet Earth CDT Student at Reading Published online in June 2020, in Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, the paper can be viewed here in the Wiley Online Library Summary We consider the large sparse symmetric linear systems of equations that arise in the solution of weak constraint four‐dimensional variational data… Read more »

Lead Author: Jennifer Israelsson, PhD Student Maths of Planet Earth CDT Reading Published online in the Journal of Hydrology, Regional Studies, the paper is available here Rainfall over west Africa has received a lot of interest the past decades due to the limited possibility of irrigation for the many farmers depending on rain fed crops. A… Read more »

Authors: Tsz Yan Leung (PhD Student Maths of Planet Earth, Reading), Sebastian Reich and Theodore G. Shepherd. Published on 27 August 2020 in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences under Early Online Release. Read the full paper here Abstract: Global numerical weather prediction (NWP) models have begun to resolve the mesoscale k^(-5/3) range of the… Read more »

The Mathematics of Planet Earth CDT is very pleased to announce that Giulia Carigi – currently in her final year of PhD study at the University of Reading – has been awarded a London Mathematical Society (LMS) Early Career Fellowship with an additional scholarship funded by the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR).  The Fellowship is for six months and… Read more »

We were delighted to have Queenie Lam and Wai-Kin Wong, both Senior Scientific Officers at the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO), as our keynote speakers on 24 June 2020. The HKO is the government department in Hong Kong responsible for monitoring and forecasting weather, issuing warnings on weather-related hazards, providing other meteorological and geophysical services, as… Read more »

During the first three days of June, the SIAM-IMA Reading Student Chapter (which is led by a committee of six MPE students) organised its annual conference, following up last year’s event and concluding the academic summer term.   This year, the annual conference had to take place remotely and online due to the current COVID19 crisis… Read more »