Moore Postnikov factorization allows us to view homotopy types of topological spaces as being constructed out of standardized building blocks, i.e., Eilenberg-MacLane spaces.

The relevant classification result has long been known for 2-stage spaces, i.e., those constructed from just two building blocks. The 3-stage case is in general unresolved.

We investigate the latter question in situations where the factorization-viewed as a fibration-has an H-cogroup base space and a product of Eilenberg-MacLane space fibres. A precise classification result up to fibrewise homotopy type is obtained for such cases.

This result appears to generalize to higher-dimensional cases in a relatively straightforward manner.

This study focuses on free surface flow past a circular cylinder based on a two fluid model at a Reynolds number of R=200. The cylinder is forced to perform harmonic streamwise oscillations in the presence of an oncoming uniform flow. The effects of the free surface presence at a submergence depth of h=0.75 for a fixed Froude number, Fr =0.2 are investigated on the vortex shedding modes and fluid forces acting on the cylinder. Calculations are performed at a fixed displacement amplitude of A=0.13 in forcing frequency-to-natural shedding frequency ratio range 1.5-3.5.

A (k,l)-colouring of a graph G is a covering of its vertex set by k independent sets and l cliques, generalizing both the colouring and clique covering of a graph. The bichromatic number of G is defined as the minimum integer r, such that G is (k,l)-colourable for all k+l=r. In this talk we will investigate some fundamental properties of the bichromatic number.