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Yidan Xue
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Postdoc at CIMIM, UoM | previously Cardiff, Oxford & Edinburgh | biomedical fluid dynamics & in-silico trials 🧠🫀🩸💊🩻 | yidanxue.github.io
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Buckling. Sounds ominous, doesn't it? Think bridges. But buckling can be a positive force and is common in nature. Marc Suñé's research may enable us to use it in many more applications.

Case study and full video: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72526
August 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Very happy to share our new paper in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, led by my DPhil advisor Prof. Stephen Payne, 'Transit time mean and variance are markers of vascular network structure, wall shear stress distribution and oxygen extraction fraction' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Transit time mean and variance are markers of vascular network structure, wall shear stress distribution and oxygen extraction fraction - Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
Perfusion measurements provide information about flow magnitude, but more detailed information is found from transit time distributions (TTD). Whether TTDs provide intrinsic (flow-independent) informa...
link.springer.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy to share my new paper in Proc R Soc A @royalsocietypublishing.org 'Computing Stokes flows in periodic channels via rational approximation'. Check it out if you are interested in rational approximation, Stokes flows, or chaotic advection: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Computing Stokes flows in periodic channels via rational approximation | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Rational approximation has proven to be a powerful method for solving two-dimensional fluid problems. At small Reynolds numbers, two-dimensional Stokes flows can be represented by two analytic functio...
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May 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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If you're interested in any combination of elasticity, surface tension and biology, please check out the latest issue of Interface Focus on "Capillarity and Elastocapillarity in Biology": royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsfs/202...
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Interface Focus: Vol 15, No 2
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May 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Stephen Payne conducted multi-scale modelling of the effects of ageing, #hypertension and exercise on the #cerebral vasculature in this recent #Research article 🚴🧠

📜 Read it here: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
May 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This #ProcA paper looks at physics-informed dynamic mode decomposition. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #MachineLearning
April 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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A paper in Nature presents a temporary pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice capable of mediating effective cardiac pacing in animal models and human heart tissues. https://go.nature.com/3E4Trt6 #medsky 🧪
April 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Our most successful social media film - yes, we confess we have other social media - stars Sam & Jon. They sound like a 60s soul act, but this Sam & Jon are Sam Howison & Jon Chapman & they are the Keepers of the Oxford Mathematics Toy Box. Here they are spinning a disc, specifically Euler's disc.
April 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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February 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Viscoplasticity can stabilise liquid collar motion on vertical cylinders arxiv.org/abs/2502.08291
February 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Beautiful new paper with Yang Liu and Alain Goriely, inspired by the work of Andrew K. Schulz

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Elephant trunk wrinkles: a mathematical model of function and form - IOPscienceSearch
Elephant trunk wrinkles: a mathematical model of function and form, Liu, Yang, Goriely, Alain, Mihai, L Angela
iopscience.iop.org
February 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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doi.org/10.1093/imai...
Our first #IMA journal paper! 😊 We showed Gibbs' measures of neural losses can satisfy the Poincare inequality - and this also holds when the loss is non-Lipschitz. This opens up the first way to get convergence of SGD on such nets *without restrictions on data or size*. 💥
Global convergence of SGD on two layer neural nets
Abstract. In this note, we consider appropriately regularized $\ell _{2}-$empirical risk of depth $2$ nets with any number of gates and show bounds on how
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It is quite ironic that my circadian rhythm was disturbed after reading Arthur Winfree's 'The Geometry of Biological Time' before bed. It is a fascinating book though.
January 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Solving a maze with the Marangoni effect: Exogenous–Endogenous Surfactant Interaction Yields Heterogeneous Spreading in Complex Branching Networks
doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
January 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Excited to announce the first UK Maths Bio Conference 4-5 September in Birmingham ukmathbioconference.github.io . Registration will open in a few weeks, save the date! Thanks to my amazing co-organisers Valeria, Kyle, Rachel and Phil for all their work planning the conference.
January 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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📢 Outstanding PhD student wanted! 🤓

The successful candidate will be based at The University of Manchester Dept. of CS ✨ to work on learning theory and methods for novel types of distributional shifts, co-supervised with @samikaski.bsky.social

⏳ DL 31.Jan.2025.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Learning theory and methods for novel types of distributional shifts. at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Learning theory and methods for novel types of distributional shifts. at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 15, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Very happy to share our new paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Scientific Reports presents a new agent-based model combining airborne viral transmission, people movement and detailed architectural design, powered by @topologic.app .
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Modelling indoor airborne transmission combining architectural design and people movement using the VIRIS simulator and web app - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Modelling indoor airborne transmission combining architectural design and people movement using the VIRIS simulator and web app
www.nature.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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In today's lecture in my nonlinear dynamics and chaos course, I tried to give intuition for where chaos comes from. It's caused by repeated stretching and folding of phase space.
December 9, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a postdoc for our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join our lab at @institutpasteur to model brain morphogenesis! (1/10)
November 18, 2024 at 3:30 PM