A Mathematician with a braid obsession, lecturer at Durham university and father of a small ginger brood..
Durham, England
Joined March 2016
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Sigh, it's such a brilliant tool it does not need this massive overselling. But by any reasonable definition is does not "predict the structure of almost all known proteins"
The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins.
In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic.
Read more about their story: bit.ly/3XI7KK3
Holy hell! this is worth a minute of your time
Big redesign coming to @visualPDE thanks to enormous efforts from @bj_w95 and @Pecnut. As an unrelated bit of fun, here's a diffusively-coupled Lorenz simulation. I call it "Butterflies lost in the soup."
Link to interactive simulation: visualpde.com/sim/?options=N…
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Fantastic 3 year postdoc in lovely Durham working on developing methods in fluid dynamics with an excellent colleague. Great opportunity to do some meaningful and deep fluid dynamics/scientific computing work!
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Steph putting some meat on the bones of the source behind this weekends spectacular activity
👇👇, The setting up the protein data bank is (in my view ) hands down the biggest event in protein science. The efficient sharing of data should be the key consideration in any scientific field.
And it will be hundreds of PhDs running and interpreting experiments which will actually help us understand how proteins move in their natural environment
FUND THEM
Well done Scandinavian @mathewjowens !!!
UKSP News: Congratulations to Mike Lockwood and Mat Owenson receiving the "Editors' Choice" award from Solar Physics
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Please do! Durham is beautiful and so is applied maths, why not combine the two? This is a great chance to develop your independent research interests in a (*checks thesaurus*) burgeoning group of applied mathematicians working in a variety of fields.
Apply to join us in majestic Durham with a 3 year Applied Mathematics Fellowship! Closing date is March 25th. Contact me via email if you have any questions.
ALT An aerial photo of the centre of Durham city on a snowy winter day. A river encircles the centre containing a Castle and Cathedral. Photo courtesy of RJX Media.
I have been (very) tangentially involved in the journey of this molecule (through its various names!) it's always super interesting to find out new science in someone else's field and I recommend you read
I am very proud to have been involved in this book, kudos to all for organising it 🙌 well worth checking out if you didn't entanglement in physical systems
Some interesting Q&A on the recent @theAGU book on Helicities in Geophysics, Astrophysics and Beyond in the most recent @AGU_Eos Editor's blog. An interesting read:
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This includes weekly cookies and and excellent fusion of mathematical biology, bendy ropes, sperm, fluid mechanics and magnetic fields. What more could one ask .......
We are hiring a 3 year Willmore Fellow in Applied Mathematics at grade 8/Assistant Professor level. Come join a vibrant applied maths research group in majestic Durham! Please send this to anyone you think may be interested. Closing date is March 25th.
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I reviewed this, it's a very interesting paper for all you solar folks
Here Ya Wang et al. investigate an enhanced three-minute oscillation above a sunspot during a solar flare iopscience.iop.org/article/1… #SolarPapers #OpenAccess
Fact a) we are great, fact b) our group lunches involves excellent hand baked cookies and occasionally greek liqueur , fact c) you should apply
Our applied maths group will be hiring several more PDRA/Fellow positions soon in solar physics/geophysical fluids/general applied math, so keep an eye out. Below is a PDRA to work on a cool scientific computing problem in geophysical fluid dynamics.
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