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 Smith, A Breward, C Hall, E Icardi, M Lacey, A Luckins, E Meyer, K Lee, W Shirley, M
Optimising Buoy Design for Wave Energy Harvesting using the WITT Device
 Cairns, G Ryan, N Alexander, J Hocking, G Metherall, B Ockendon, H Ockendon, J Piette, B Rodgers, N Sampath, S Whittaker, R

Disability Advisory Service seeking in-person support workers

The Disability Advisory Service (DAS) is seeking in-person support workers to work with students supported by DAS.  The roles are flexible and can fit in with your own schedule.  We need graduate students for the following positions:

Note Takers – particularly those who are familiar with LaTeX and are mathematically literate

Sighted Guides

Library Support workers

Examination Support Workers – both scribes and readers

The current hourly rate of pay is £16.57

Collaboration

You may remember that we planned to make films about our collaborations, whether within Oxford Mathematics, or with the wider mathematical community, or with other disciplines in Oxford and beyond. 

Here is the first example, a story of the biggest (and smelliest) flower in the world. This is the long version. A shorter version went out on our social media.

And please contact Dyrol if you think your collaborative work would make a good film.

Thu, 21 Nov 2024
12:00
C6

Failure of the Measure Contraction Property on the Martinet Flat Structure

Samuel Borza
(University of Vienna)
Abstract

The Martinet flat structure is one of the simplest sub-Riemannian manifolds that has many non-Riemannian features: it is not equiregular, it has abnormal geodesics, and the Carnot-Carathéodory sphere is not sub-analytic. I will review how the geometry of the Martinet flat structure is tied to the equations of the pendulum. Surprisingly, the Measure Contraction Property (a weak synthetic formulation of Ricci curvature bounds in non-smooth spaces) fails, and we will try to understand why. If time permits, I will also discuss how this can be generalised to some Carnot groups that have abnormal extremals. This is a joint work in progress with Luca Rizzi.

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