Internal waves

At the beginning of November I will be attending the 2nd Norway-Scotland Internal Waves Symposium to be held in Edinburgh. Although this meeting may not consider systems with intrinsic material anisotropy, there is often geometric anisotropy and small aspect ratio parameters (vastly different feature length-scales) present, including  stratification. 

This will also be a good opportunity to meet members of SAMS with whom I will be working next year.

Wood Micromechanics Workshop

A workshop on wood micromechanics was held on Wednesday 13th October 2010 at the University of Glasgow. This was a

Telford Institute type I workshop which aimed to be a scoping exercise to determine the depth and breadth of Scottish interest in this particular specialised topic of research.

A full programme is available and it was clear that there was interest in coordinating efforts within Scotland in this area and that mathematical modelling could have considerable impact.

The conclusion was that a type II workshop should be proposed, to define and refine the pan-Scottish critical mass of research within the topic, in order to exploit this for the benefit of the Scottish research sector as a whole.

A Yahoo group has also been formed, to discuss these issues further.

The web-site

This web-site will highlight developments in the research project "Anisotropy in the Natural Environment". The project officially starts on January 1st 2011 for one year, funded by a number of organisations.

Various research areas will be developed and will be discussed both in the blog on this page and the static pages listed in the tabs above.