Hello there at 107.22.25.119!
Today is Wednesday, 19 June 2013, and the current local time is 01:13 AM
- news
SysMIC: a comprehensive online course in systems biology (joint BBSRC-funded project with UCL, Birkbeck and Edinburgh) is going to start training PhD students from January 2013 The SysMIC course consists of three modules, comprising taught material and projects Paper "Prospective malaria control using entomopathogenic fungi: comparative evaluation of impact on transmission and selection for resistance" now published in Malaria Journal Review "Mathematical Diffraction of Aperiodic Structures" now published in Chemical Society Reviews
- where I work
- Aperiodic Order Research Group
- Department of Mathematics & Statistics
- Faculty of Mathematics, Computing & Technology
- The Open University
- Open Research Online
- Research at the Open University
- research highlights
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- Exhibit How do Shapes Fill Space? at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2009 in London (with Edmund Harriss, Richard Henry, John Hunton, Vinay Kathotia and Jeroen Lamb).
- Workshop on Dynamics, Physics and Topology in Aperiodic Order, 7 – 11 September 2009, Leicester (co-chaired with Alex Clark and John Hunton)
- APERIODIC'09, the 6th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals, 13-18 September 2009, Liverpool, UK (co-chaired with Rónán McGrath) — the proceedings have now been published (open access)
- Aperiodic Order Research Group supported by £215,124 EPSRC Grant EP/D058465/1 Combinatorics of Sequences and Tilings and its Applications (2006 – 2009) and by a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship (£25,340) for Michael Baake (2009/10)
- Feature article The Forbidden Beauty of Quasicrystals in Physics World (with Rónán McGrath & Renee D. Diehl)
- Exhibit Forbidden Beauty at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2004 (with Rónán McGrath)
- Article Die verborgene Ordnung der Quasikristalle in Spektrum der Wissenschaft (with Michael Baake and Robert V. Moody)
- research activity & output
- My scientific publications
- Conference attendances, visits, talks & posters
- Research grants
- Research students
- Cooperations
- Scientific meetings that I co-organised
- Conference pictures — can you spot me?
- MATHEMATICA programmes on quasiperiodic tilings
- Colourful pictures of planar aperiodic tilings
- research interests
- Aperiodic Order & Quasicrystals
- Solvable Lattice Models of Statistical Mechanics
- Quantum Algebras, Braids, Knots & Links
- Mathematical Biology, Population Genetics
- Combinatorics & Number Theory
- what I teach
- Author of course materials for
- Waves, diffusion and variational principles (MS324)
- Computer algebra, chaos and simulations (MS325)
- Chair of
- E&A board member of
- Using mathematics (MST121)
- Waves, diffusion and variational principles (MS324)
- Computer algebra, chaos and simulations (MS325)
- MSc in Mathematics
- Tutor & course director at the late MST207 residential school (Stirling 2002 – 2004)
- Tutor at Mathematical modelling (MSXR209) residential school (Nottingham, 2005 & 2007 – 2012)
- Tutor of Calculus of variations and advanced calculus (M820)
- Tutor of Dissertation in Mathematics (M840)
- Supervisor of research students
- other professional activities
- Visiting appointments
- Visiting Research Associate, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia (until end 2011)
- Memberships
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- Fellow (FInstP) of the Institute of Physics
- Member of the IoP Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Group Committee
- Member of the IoP Conference Committee
- Member of the London Mathematical Society
- Member of the IUCr Commission on Aperiodic Crystals
- International research groups
- European Research Group: Mathematics and Quantum Physics Euro-GDR (2000 – 2008)
- DFG Schwerpunktprogramm (research focus programme) Quasikristalle (1997 – 2003)
- world of quasicrystal research
- Forbidden Beauty
- Joint exhibit with Rónán McGrath (Liverpool) at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London, 5-8 July 2004
- Mathematics of
Aperiodic Order
- This (not recently updated) site comprises information on the mathematical theory of quasicrystals
- Encyclopedia
of Substitution Tilings
- A useful reference for anything relating to tilings, developed and maintained by Edmund Harriss and Dirk Frettlöh

