Doing maths at the train station feels like a very PhD student move

It amuses me every time I get a train through Peterborough and they say "change here for trains to March." It makes it sound like Peterborough is a magical place where you can board a time-travelling train, but your only option is to go to the 3rd month of the year

I love Eurovision. End of tweet.

Had a great time representing NightlineAssociation at the Nightline Europe conference in Paris this weekend, was wonderful meeting volunteers from across Europe who are all so passionate about supporting students' mental health ☺️

Congratulations to our #UniversityChallenge winning team! Harry Scully, Bea Bennett, Alex Radcliffe, Chloe Margaux and Tom Haines-Matos, with Badger, the cathedral cat. We’re so proud of you. Well done to University of Bristol , worthy opponents in their first ever final 🥳🤝

Join our team! We are appointing a Research Assistant to join us on a newly funded project looking at preventing burnout. £15/hr, 7.5 hrs/week, home based, 12 mth fixed term contract. Closing date: 18 June, find more: nightline.ac.uk/opportunity/re… #Vacancy #ResearchAssistant #Nightline

Are you interested in studying for a PhD in Offshore Wind Energy at Durham University? If so, take a look at this opportunity through the AURA CDT: auracdt.hull.ac.uk/research-proje…

We've just published our latest Material Point Method work in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. The paper provides a way to significantly improve the stability of MPM simulations. Get the paper for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nm…

Wonderful evening yesterday, lovely to see BBC Proms in the north east @Sage_Gateshead

We are delighted to say that our latest research on phase field fracture using discontinuous Galerkin finite elements has been published in CMAME. Accurate and initial mesh independent results are obtained via error estimate driven hp adaptivity. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very excited for the UKACM conference to come to Durham next year!

Bit of Friday fun testing out our new MPM-rigid body interaction implementation. Dr Bird decided to destroy our open source MPM code, AMPLE (A Material Point Learning Environment). wmcoombs.github.io doi.org/10.1016/j.adve…

Promoting Durham Nightline at the freshers' fair today!

This is very sad 😢

Insightful evening learning about the research going on across the postgrad community in Hatfield MCR

The UKACM 2024 conference website is now live, and open for abstract submissions. sites.google.com/view/ukacm2024… The deadline for submitting a one-page abstract is 30th November. We hope to see you in Durham!

We are delighted to announce that our latest Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded research on "Preserving non-negative porosity values in a bi-phase elasto-plastic material under Terzaghi's effective stress principle" has been published in Mechanics of Materials. authors.elsevier.com/a/1il5Nc7qwm1Fu

Catching up on our published papers... Congratulations to Nathan Gavin for publishing his first journal paper in IJNME. The paper presents a new arc length approach for the material point method. Thanks to Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for supporting the research doi.org/10.1002/nme.74…