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Today is Saturday, 21 November 2009, and the current local time is 10:15 AM
- about me
- How I came to live in Milton Keynes
- If you really want to know what I look like — here is a picture of me
- 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

- 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)
- 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
- Academic visitors
- 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 new third level courses Waves, Diffusion and Variational Principles (MS324) & Computer Algebra, Chaos and Simulations (MS325)
- E&A board member of Waves, Diffusion and Variational Principles (MS324)
- Tutor & course director at the late MST207 residential school (Stirling 2002–2004)
- Tutor at Mathematical Modelling (MSXR209) residential school (Nottingham, 2005, 2007 & 2008)
- Tutor of Calculus of Variations and Advanced Calculus (M820)
- Supervisor of research students
- other professional activities
- Memberships
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- Fellow (FInstP) of the Institute of Physics
- Chair of the IoP Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Group
- Member of the London Mathematical Society
- Refereeing
- Journal of Physics A, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Physics Letters A, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B & E, ...
- Reviewing
- Mathematical Reviews
- international research groups
- European Research Group: Mathematics and Quantum Physics
- Euro-GDR (January 2000 - December 2008),
- organising regular meetings of European research groups from mathematics and theoretical physics
- 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 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
- Schwerpunktprogramm
Quasikristalle
- Special six-year (1997-2003) research programme on quasicrystals of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

