Academic Webpage Date/Time/Location: Maths Lecture Theatre B, 1405-1455, Friday 17th April Title: The fine scales of solar chromospheric flares Abstract: A solar flare is an intense but short-lived release of energy from the Sun's magnetically-dominated atmosphere, resulting in the acceleration of non-thermal particles, plasma heating, and radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Most energy released is radiated by…

Academic Webpage Title: Wave propagation in reaction-diffusion equations Abstract: I'll talk about a broad class of scalar nonlinear parabolic equations, extending the established concepts of pulled and pushed fronts (conventional travelling waves of constant speed) to more extreme cases that allow the classification of the variety of potential behaviour. The work is motivated by tissue-growth…

Academic Webpage Title: From Linear Regression to Gaussian Neural Networks: Diagnosing the Evolving SST–NAO Teleconnection Under Climate Change Using Explainable Machine Learning Abstract: The North Atlantic Oscillation — a large-scale seesaw in atmospheric pressure between the Azores and Iceland — is the single most important driver of winter weather variability across Europe and the North…