I have not posted at all this month. I'm not quite sure why I have not been moved to do so, but it's that gloomy time of year as the clocks change, and it's the busy time of year when children's activities seem to ramp up towards Christmas. As usual, some of my kids are involved in the pantomime on ice at the local ice rink, and this year I have signed up as a volunteer chaperone, so I spent some time yesterday evening on the ice to be on hand if any of the children needed me (they didn't) and to try to help keep them well-behaved.
For work, I made a trip to ELI-NP in Romania to give a seminar on the use of time-dependent Hartree-Fock in the calculation of nuclear strength functions. It's something I've had as an interest for much of my research career and I included calculations from up to 20 years ago, as well as some from the last year, in my presentation. I was invited by two people I met when I was in Türkiye earlier this year, and they kindly hosted me and gave me a guided tour. Here I am with them:
Otherwise ... I continue to work on the various projects with each student and staff member that I have ongoing projects with. My student Sam went to a workshop (ISNET - a workshop series I have been involved in in the past) and gave a talk, which I heard very good things about from those present. Well done Sam!
Our visitor Serkan, who is here on a fellowship from the Turkish research council, completed some work exploring different techniques in machine learning, including quantum machine learning and uploaded a preprint (arXiv:2511.18350) the other day, my new student Lloyd has got off to a flying start, and the students I act as second supervisor for are all getting on with their projects well.
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