JFM ‘Outstanding Reviewers’ 2024
Waters, S
Caulfield, C
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
volume 1018
(01 Sep 2025)
Our congratulations go to the following colleagues who have received an award this year in recognition of their exceptional contribution. Staff in grades 1-10 with more than six months of service are eligible to be nominated for an award, including PDRAs and Research Fellows.
Katherine Goult, Outreach Administrator
Charlotte Holmes, Finance Apprentice
Balint Koczor, Senior Research Fellow
Dave Miller, Full-Stack Development Lead
Joanna Walker, Deputy Head of Academic Administration
Tue, 03 Mar 2026
15:30
15:30
L4
Large mass limit of $G_2$ and Calabi Yau monopoles
Yang Li
(Cambridge)
Abstract
I will discuss some recent progress on the Donaldson Segal programme, and in particular how calibrated cycles (coassociative submanifolds, special Lagrangians) arise from the large mass limit of $G_2$ and Calabi Yau monopoles.
Data-driven hedging with generative models
Cont, R
Vuletic, M
Annals of Operations Research
(16 Oct 2025)
Tue, 27 Jan 2026
15:30
15:30
L4
Developments in Vafa-Witten theory
Martijn Kool
(Utrecht)
Abstract
S-duality is an intriguing symmetry of (twisted) N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a four-manifold. When the four-manifold underlies a complex projective surface, it leads to the Vafa-Witten invariants defined by Tanaka-Thomas in 2017. I will discuss some developments related to Azumaya algebras, universality, Seiberg-Witten invariants, wall-crossing for Nakajima quiver varieties, the structure of S-duality, and modular curves (including relations to the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction and Klein quartic).