The MathSys CDT is looking to recruit its final cohort of students for a 1+3 year MSc and PhD. In total 14 places are available (10 UK and 4 overseas). MathSys focuses on a range of real-world problems especially in biology & epidemiology. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/mathsy
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When most people choose to teach the same course multiple times, the sheer range of courses David Tong has taught is incredible
The fact that he made highly readable notes on them is simply mind boggling.
damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teac
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You have probably seen the famous bell curve hundreds of times before.
It is often referred to as some sort of “probability”. Contary to popular belief, this is NOT a probability, but a probability density.
What are densities and why do we need them?
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Seen in a colleague's office ("Write the stuff about the renormalisation group down well"). That's a task for a lifetime. Do we know of anyone who has ever managed?
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Further funding opportunity for PhD through María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence grant . Up to 9 studentships in total, including to work with me on individual-based systems in biology & social dynamics. Deadline 26/1. Get in touch (email).
ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/about-ifisc
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Fully funded (v well paid) PhD studentship to work with me at and (York) on Statistical Physics of Stochastic Populations. Deadline 25th Jan. ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/about-ifisc. Get in touch (email) in next few days, I can help with application to La Caixa foundation.
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On the “Principle of Least Action“ of Maupertuis (Euler-Lagrange-Jacobi).
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📣IFISC offers up to 7 PhD positions within the "la Caixa" Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships Programme. The opportunity you are looking for!
ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/about-ifisc
Deadline: 25/01/23
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Periodic re-posting: Written in 1779 by Matthias Claudius, still a hit in the hands of Herbert Grönemeyer — Der Mond ist aufgegangen
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Who remembers this absolute belter from James Acaster in 2016? The most perfect description of Brexit ever heard on the telly.
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Rules of academia:
Questions are more important than facts
Answers are temporary
Models are provisional
Failure happens a lot
Patience is a requirement
When you’re lucky, hopefully you realize it
Things don’t unfold linearly
If there’s free food, get there early
—Stuart Firestein
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📣IFISC offers up to 7 PhD positions within the "la Caixa" Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships Programme. The opportunity you are looking for!
ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/about-ifisc
Deadline: 25/01/23
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Happy zero-derivative day everyone. Winter solstice in just under two hours from now (21:48 GMT)
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📣IFISC (Institute of Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems) announces that in the next call for FPI (predoctoral) contracts to appear soon, there will be IFISC projects.
Check the full list in the following web page:
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📣IFISC offers up to 7 PhD positions within the "la Caixa" Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships Programme. The opportunity you are looking for!
ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/about-ifisc
Deadline: 25/01/23
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As every grad school application portal knows, at the end of each semester I open a spreadsheet of every student I’ve ever taught and carefully add the new students to my rankings.
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From the foreword by Freeman Dyson to the "Oxford Handbook of Random Matrix Theory"
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New in PRE: I find the corrections to the well-known elliptic, circular and semi-circular laws in random matrix theory due to network degree heterogeneity.
We see that NDH tends to be a destabilising influence unless edge weights are very antisymmetric.
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"I simply wish that, in a matter which so closely concerns the well-being of mankind, no decision shall be made without all the knowledge which a little analysis and calculation can provide.”
Daniel Bernoulli on smallpox vaccination, 1760
(h/t Francesca Colaiori)
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Pacemaker check ✅️
Pneumovax ✅️
Covid shot 4 (2 weeks ago)✅️
Flu jab (2 weeks ago)✅️
Now back to the office.
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Is the pair approximation exact for processes on uncorrelated networks, or is it just that it "normally works well"? If it is exact, then is there a proof/derivation? I looked but could not find much. Where can I read about this ? Thanks - I feel I should know this, but I don't.
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We are excited to announce a symposium on the mathematical modelling of resistance evolution (bacteria and cancer) at on 26-28 April 2023. We welcome researchers at any career stage.
Abstract submission deadline: 3 February 2023.
More info: workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/75/
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Gerrymandering? You have 10 L (losing) marbles and 10 W (winning) marbles & 2 urns into which to put them. Your opponent will choose an urn and a ball from it at random. How should you distribute the 20 balls in the 2 urns to maximize the prob. your opponent chooses an L marble?
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Highlighting Skype-a-Scientist -- very worthwhile initiative, I think. skypeascientist.com
(I'm doing a session with an English-speaking school in Romania later today).
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Fun Fact: It is very common for a "warm-up problem" for a student's PhD thesis to turn into almost the entire thesis because it turns out to be much harder than we thought it would be. It is similarly very common for that warm-up problem to be extremely valuable in its own right.
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Review on network meta-analysis & statistical physics. NMA=technique to combine evidence from medical trials. Analogies with electrical networks, random walks & more. Idea of paper is to attract physicists to this field.
Made possible by
doi.org/10.1088/1742-5
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The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time - on the Fast Fourier Transform (including a story I had not heard before, the connection between the FFT and the nuclear arms race).
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And this happens a trillion times every second in our body?!
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DNA to RNA real-time speed. Gene Transcription at real-time speed. Transcription is the first step in gene expression.
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"Doing a PhD is (just) a job." Discuss.
[It's a genuine question. Would be interested to hear what people think, but perhaps too complex to be discussed on Twitter.]
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🚨YouTube updated with some amazing videos of the invited talks we had during #CCS2022 warm-up!
👀 youtube.com/playlist?list=
So far, we have… 👇
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Very strong opening to a math video. Ok, you have my attention.
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Finally, a position for Lecturer in Disordered Systems and Analysis is currently open.
Deadline for applications: 24th of November 2022.
jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/0571
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As previously announced, a position of Reader is also open in our group.
Deadline for applications: 20th of November 2022.
jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/0569
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📚New job announcement!
A position of Lecturer or Professor in Disordered Systems is now open at .
Deadline for applications: 13th of December 2022. jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/0572
This position is in addition to the previously announced, see below (1/3)
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Potential PhD viva questions
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JAE-Intro studentship (for final-year undergrads, or master students) to work with me on a project in "Statistical Physics of Complex Systems" (project title deliberately broad). Support is a total of €4200 for 7 months. Deadline 7th November ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/about-ifisc
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#lecturer position (full-time, open-ended) available at - jointly between our group and Analysis/Probability [jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/0571] (this is *in addition* to the Reader position already advertised). Deadline: 24th November. Please apply and RT! 👇
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