Jo Ellis-Monaghan in the department of mathematics has been offered a funded visiting
fellowship at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, England during the spring of 2008. 
The Isaac Newton Institute is the UK’s national institute for mathematics and theoretical
physics, and Jo Ellis-Monaghan will be participating in the Combinatorics and Statistical
Mechanics Programme.  She will be pursuing her research on the interrelations between graph
polynomials and the Potts model partition function.  The Potts model simulates physical
phenomena such as phase transitions (e.g. liquid to gas) resulting from nearest-neighbor
interactions in complex systems determining the macroscale behavior of the system.  It has a
broad range of applications in many fields, modeling  behaviors such as magnetism, tumor
migration, foam flows, and ghetto formation in social demographics.

More Information at: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/