A bit more about me: academic

I moved to Manchester (UMIST) in January 2000 from a chair in Applied Mathematics at QMW in London. Before that I lectured in DAMTP, University of Cambridge. In Cambridge I was also Director of Studies in Applied Mathematics at Gonville and Caius College.

I am on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics and Dynamical Systems: an international journal previously known as Dynamics and Stability of Systems.

I was part of the organising group for the project From Finite to Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems at the Newton Institute in Cambridge (July - December 1995), and organized the NATO Summer School of the same name. The proceedings of this School, edited with James Robinson, has recently appeared.

I see mathematics as very much a social activity -- something undertaken with rather than against other people. I have been fortunate to collaborate with a number of excellent mathematicians and physicists, who are also wonderful people. They are (in alphabetical order)

• Jan Abshagen from Kiel, who was visiting Tom Mullin.
• Murad Banaji, who was my graduate student at QMW.
• Paul Chastell, who was a graduate student at UCL with Jaroslav Stark.
• Ulrike Feudel at the University of Potsdam.
• Jean-Marc Gambaudo, who is now in Dijon (but was in Nice and then Lyon).
• Toby Hall, who is at the University of Liverpool.
• Carlo Laing, who is currently at the University of Ottawa.
• Jerome Los in Nice.
• Tom Mullin at the University of Manchester.
• Hinke Osinga in Exeter, but now in Bristol.
• Victoria Otero-Espinar in Santiago de Compostella
• Louise Perry, who was an M.Sc. student at Cambridge.
• Arkady Pikovsky at the University of Potsdam.
• Mike Proctor in Cambridge.
• Phil Ramsden, who is a part-time research student at QMW, but who is also involved in a teaching mathematics with computers project at Imperial College.
• James Robinson at the University of Warwick.
• Nikita Sidorov, at Manchester.
• Lenny Smith at LSE.
• Colin Sparrow, now at Warwick.
• Jaroslav Stark at UCL.
• Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer in Cambridge.
• Charles Tresser, then in Nice, but now at IBM, Yorktown Heights, in the USA.
• Darryl Veitch, who is now at the University of Melbourne, but was a graduate student in Cambridge.
• Jan Wiersig, who was a post-doc with me at QMW, but is now in Dresden.

  Not all of these have written articles which have appeared.

  There are also some people with whom I have not written papers, but who have been so important to me mathematically that it would be unfair not to mention them. Unfortunately, when I list them I keep adding to the list until it starts getting stupid, so I shall simply say that my Ph.D. in Cambridge was supervised by Nigel Weiss.