Grants

The following is a list of current and recent grants held by members of the Applied and Computational Mathematics group:

Tibor Antal

• The emergence of evolution - foundational questions in evolutionary biology (£109K, National Philanthropic Trust, 2013-2014).

Luke Davis

• UNTauANGLE: Untangling the biophysics of tau aggregation through computational modelling (PI, £174K, Wellcome Accelerator Award, 2025-2027).

Ben Goddard

• Development of Spectral Element Methods for Complex Fluids Modelling and Control (£12k, EPSRC, 2020);
• ICMS Workshop on New Directions in Classical Density Functional Theory (£21k, ICMS/LMS, 2020);
• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematical Modelling, Analysis and Computation (MAC-MIGS) (Co-I, £6.1M, EPSRC, 2019-2028);
• Statistical mechanics of soft matter: Derivation, analysis and implementation of dynamic density functional theories (£379K, EPSRC, 2014-2017).

Des Higham

• Disease Spread at High Order (£71k, EPSRC, 2022-2023);
• Mathematics of Adversarial Attacks (£200k, EPSRC, 2021-2022);
• Inference, Computation and Numerics for Insights into Cities (ICONIC) (£690k, EPSRC, 2017-2022).

Ben Leimkuhler

• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematical Modelling, Analysis and Computation (MAC-MIGS) (PI, £6.1M, EPSRC,  2019-2028);
• Data-Driven Coarse-Graining using Space-Time Diffusion Maps (£305k, EPSRC, 2017-2020);
• RULE - Rule-based modelling (£2.1M, ERC Advanced Grant, 2013-2018);
• ExTASY: Extensible Tools for Advanced Sampling and analYsis (£551M, EPSRC/NSF, 2013-2016);
• NAIS (£3.7M EPSRC and £290K SFC, 2009-2014).

Moritz Linkmann

• SPF ExCALIBUR EX20-10: Machine Learning (in collaboration with EPCC, £576k, Met Office, 2021-2024);
• Superstructures and exact coherent states in the asymptotic suction boundary layer (€231.000, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), part of Priority Programme 1881 Turbulent Superstructures, 2020-2023)

Tom Mackay

• Exciting Voigt surface waves (£202k, EPSRC, 2021-2023).

James Maddison

• QUoRUM: QUantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in Multi-Decadal Projection of Ice Sheet-Sea Level Contribution (£395k, NERC, 2019-2022);
• Automatic assimilation of particle velocimetry data into computational blood flow models (£98k, EPSRC, 2018-2019);
• GEOMETRIC: Geometry and Energetics of Ocean Mesoscale Eddies and Their Representation in Climate models (£461K, NERC, 2017-2020);
• Implementation and optimisation of geostrophic eddy parameterisations in ocean circulation models (£287K, NERC, 2014-2017);
• Parallel supermeshing for multimesh modelling (ARCHER embedded CSE, 2015-2016).

Adri Olde Daalhuis

• Implementable Uniform and Exponentially-Improved Asymptotics ($147K, NIST, 2020-2023);
• Rigorous and Presentable Asymptotics for Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials (£430K, NIST, 2015-2020);
• Special functions: next steps for the DLMF (£102K, NIST, 2012-2015).

Jacob Page

• SPF ExCALIBUR EX20-10: Machine Learning (in collaboration with EPCC, £576k, Met Office, 2021-2024);
• Exact coherent structures in viscoelastic turbulence (£467k, EPSRC, 2021-2024).

John Pearson

• Matrix-Free Preconditioners for Large-Scale Convex Constrained Optimization Problems (PRECOOP) (€21k, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, 2019-20);
• Modern Linear Algebra for PDE-Constrained Optimisation Models for Huge-Scale Data Analysis (£232k. EPSRC, 2018-2021);
• Fast Solvers for Real-World PDE-Constrained Optimization (£251k, EPSRC, 2015-2017).

Nikola Popovic

• The nature of gene expression: model selection and parameter inference (£130k, The Leverhulme Trust, 2015-2018).

Noel Smyth

• Trajectory control of nonlinear beams in liquid crystals (£12K, Royal Society, 2012-2014).

Aretha Teckentrup

• Gaussian process regression for Bayesian inverse problems (£268k, EPSRC, 2023-2026);
• The mathematical and statistical foundation of future data-driven engineering (£150k, Newton Institute, 2023);
• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematical Modelling, Analysis and Computation (MAC-MIGS) (Co-I, £6.1M, EPSRC,  2019-2028).

Jacques Vanneste

• NSFGEO-NERC Scattering of ocean surface gravity waves by submesoscale turbulence (£242k, NERC, 2022-2024);
• Efficient numerical methods for wave-action transport and scattering (£61k, EPSRC, 2022);
• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematical Modelling, Analysis and Computation (MAC-MIGS) (Co-I, £6.1M, EPSRC,  2019-2028);
• Probing Multiscale Complex Multiphase Flows with Positrons for Engineering and Biomedical Applications (CoI, £5.7M, EPSRC Programme Grant, 2018-2024);
• NSFGEO-NERC: Stimulated Loss of Balance (£212K, NERC, 2017-2020);
• High-resolution mapping of near-inertial waves in the ocean (£366K, NERC, 2012-2015);
• Passive scalars in complex fluid flows: variability and extreme events (£393K, EPSRC, 2011-2014).

Anna Lisa Varri

• Rethinking the dynamical paradigm of low-mass stellar systems - FLF Phase 2 (£566k, UKRI, 2023-2026);
• Interconnections between the physics of plasmas and self-gravitating systems (Co-I, $50k, KITP program, 2 months, 2024);
• Evolution séculaire des galaxies/Secular evolution of galaxies (SEGAL) (Co-I, €627k, ANR, 2019-2023);
• Rethinking the dynamical paradigm of low-mass stellar systems - FLF Phase 1 (£648k, UKRI, 2019-2023);
• The nexus between kinematic complexity and black holes in star clusters (¥1,8M, JSPS, 2018-2020).

Kostas Zygalakis

• EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematical Modelling, Analysis and Computation (MAC-MIGS) (Co-I, £6.1M, EPSRC,  2019-2028);
• Stochastic dynamical systems in Biology: Numerical method and applications (£247K, 6-month program at the Newton Institute, January 2016-June 2016);
• Simons Visiting Fellowship (Newton Institute, University of Cambridge £2.5K).