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The Strategic Plan consultation team want to reach as many staff as possible as this is an important opportunity for them to help shape the University's direction over the next five years. 

Groundwater dynamics beneath a marine ice sheet
Cairns, G Benham, G Hewitt, I Cryosphere volume 19 issue 9 3725-3747 (12 Sep 2025)
Wed, 16 Jul 2025
14:00
L5

Twistor-space gauge-theory amplitudes from off-shell functionals

Hiren Kakkad
(Shanghai Tech)
Abstract

I will present a pair of off-shell functionals in position space, localized on the self-dual and the anti-self-dual planes which naturally give the Parke-Taylor denominator. These can therefore be used: 
i) to compute scattering amplitudes of particles with different spins and helicities; and 
ii) develop a Lagrangian description. 
Using Witten's half-Fourier transform, I will express these functionals in twistor space and present the kernels in a closed compact form. For even multiplicities, I will show how to obtain this form geometrically which than then be “folded” to get the one-less odd-multiplicity result. 
 

Wed, 16 Jul 2025
11:30
L5

Chiral fields for massive higher spins

Dr Alex Ochirov
(Shanghai Tech)
Abstract

I will review some recent developments in effective field theory of  composite higher-spin particles, namely, Zinoviev's massive gauge symmetry and 
the new chiral-field approach. The latter approach was inspired by a simple spinor-helicity structure first singled out by Arkani-Hamed, Huang and Huang, which encodes the higher-spin information of two massive particles. It turned out to be persistent in tree-level amplitudes with any number of additional identical-helicity gluons or gravitons, leading to the discovery of the chiral-field approach. I will mention the applications of massive higher-spin scattering amplitudes to classical gravitational dynamics of rotating black  holes. 
 

CATS: The Climate Aware Task Scheduler
Bartholomew, S Colling, L Dasgupta, A Greenberg, A Lannelongue, L Lestang, T Martinez-Ortiz, C Sauzé, C Walker, A Ward, A Journal of Open Source Software volume 10 issue 111 8251-8251 (08 Jul 2025)
Synovial tissue atlas in juvenile idiopathic arthritis reveals pathogenic niches associated with disease severity
Bolton, C Mahony, C Clay, E Nisa, P Lomholt, S Hackland, A Chin, P Smith, C Alexiou, V Nguyen, H Thyagarajan, M Sheikh, Z Davis, P Chippington, S Compeyrot-Lacassagne, S Davda, S Foley, C Turtsevich, I Ingledow, B Kupiec, K Kelly, J Hanlon, M DiCarlo, E Jones, L Smith, S Eyre, S Neag, G Kemble, S Madhu, R Palshikar, M Korsunsky, I Gao, C Tran, M Dendrou, C Buckley, C Coles, M Raza, K Gravallese, E Filer, A Wei, K Al-Abadi, E Rosser, E Wedderburn, L Croft, A Science Translational Medicine volume 17 issue 805 (02 Jul 2025)
Is a COVID-19 Vaccine Likely to Make Things Worse?
Abo, S Smith, S Vaccines volume 8 issue 4 E761-E761 (14 Dec 2020)
Modeling the circadian regulation of the immune system: Sexually dimorphic effects of shift work.
Abo, S Layton, A PLoS computational biology volume 17 issue 3 e1008514-e1008514 (31 Mar 2021)
Sexual Dimorphism in Substrate Metabolism During Exercise.
Abo, S Casella, E Layton, A Bulletin of mathematical biology volume 86 issue 2 17-17 (16 Jan 2024)
Modelling the daily risk of Ebola in the presence and absence of a potential vaccine.
Abo, S Smith, R Infectious Disease Modelling volume 5 905-917 (15 Oct 2020)
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