This session, led by the Counselling Service,  will guide you through a CBT informed understanding of anxiety, which may arise about exams. The session includes:

• Psychoeducation - what is happening in the brain and body when we worry about exams
• Paradox of worry – how more pressure, makes studying less likely
• Experiential exercises – management strategies to maintain focus and engagement
• Takeaway tools – a collection of managing stress skills for self-guided practice
• Practical tips – enhance your exam preparation

In this talk, I will describe a family of observables for 3D quantum Yang-Mills theory based on regularising connections with the YM heat flow. I will describe how these observables can be used to show that there is a unique renormalisation of the stochastic quantisation equation of YM in 3D that preserves gauge symmetries. This complements a recent result on the existence of such a renormalisation. Based on joint work with Hao Shen.