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Thin glass sheets are used in smartphone, battery and semiconductor technology, and may be manufactured by first producing a relatively thick glass slab (known as a preform) and subsequently redrawing it to a required thickness. Theoretically, if the sheet is redrawn through an infinitely long heater zone, a product with the same aspect ratio as the preform may be manufactured. However, in reality the effect of surface tension and the restriction to factories of finite size prevent this. In this talk I will present a mathematical model for a viscous sheet undergoing redraw, and use asymptotic analysis in the thin-sheet, low-Reynolds-number limit to investigate how the product shape is affected by process parameters. 

My research focuses on numerical techniques that help provide scalable computation within simulations of two-phase fluid flow problems. The efficient solution of the linear systems which arise is key to obtaining practical computation. I will motivate and discuss new methods which seek to generalise effective techniques for a single phase to the more challenging setting of two-phase flow where the governing equations have discontinuous coefficients.

A Fueter map between two hyperKaehler manifolds is a solution of a Cauchy-Riemann-type equation in the quaternionic context. In this talk I will describe relations between Fueter maps, generalized Seiberg-Witten equations, and Yang-Mills instantons on G2-manifolds (so called G2-instantons).

Abstract: Ricci solitons are genralizations of Einstein metrics which have become subject of much interest over the last decade. In this talk I will give a basic introduction to these metrics and discuss how to reformulate the Ricci soliton equation as a Hamiltonian system assuming some symmetry conditions. Using this approach we will construct explicit solutions to the soliton equation for manifolds of dimension 5.