Paul Glendinning

Paul Glendinning
Born Paul Alexander Glendinning
Fields Non-linear dynamics[1]
Institutions
Alma mater King's College, Cambridge
Thesis Homoclinic Bifurcations (1985)
Doctoral advisor Nigel Weiss[2]
Doctoral students
  • Murad Banaji
  • Toby Hall
  • Mark Johnston
  • Carlo Laing
  • Philip Ramsden
  • James Robinson
  • Darryl Veitch[2]
Notable awards Adams Prize (1992)

Website

Paul Glendinning is a Professor of Applied Mathematics, in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester who is known for his work on dynamical systems, specifically models of the time-evolution of complex mathematical or physical processes. His main areas of research are bifurcation theory (particularly global bifurcations); synchronization and blowout bifurcations; low-dimensional maps; and quasi-periodically forced systems.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Education

He gained his PhD from King's College, Cambridge in 1985 with a thesis entitled Homoclinic Bifurcations under the supervision of Nigel Weiss.

Career and research

After postdoctoral research at the University of Warwick, he returned to Cambridge, with a Junior Research Fellowship at King's. In 1987 he moved to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as Director of Studies in Applied Mathematics. In 1992 he won the Adams Prize. In 1996 he was appointed to a chair at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London and then to a chair at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 2000.

In 2004 the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged and he was appointed as head of the School of Mathematics formed by the merger of the Mathematics Departments in the former institutions. His term of office as head of school expired in August 2008.

He is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics and the journal Dynamical Systems.

Personal life

Glendinning is married and lives in Marsden, West Yorkshire. He is the son of the writer and broadcaster Victoria Glendinning and the brother of philosopher Simon Glendinning.

References

  1. 1 2 Paul Glendinning's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. 1 2 Paul Glendinning at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Glendinning, P.; Sparrow, C. (1984). "Local and global behavior near homoclinic orbits". Journal of Statistical Physics 35 (5–6): 645. doi:10.1007/BF01010828.
  4. Faces of Mathematics
  5. Glendinning, P.; Perry, L. P. (1997). "Melnikov analysis of chaos in a simple epidemiological model". Journal of Mathematical Biology 35 (3): 359–73. doi:10.1007/s002850050056. PMID 9120378.
  6. Glendinning, P.; Sparrow, C. (1986). "T-points: A codimension two heteroclinic bifurcation". Journal of Statistical Physics 43 (3–4): 479. doi:10.1007/BF01020649.
  7. Glendinning, P. (1984). "Bifurcations near homoclinic orbits with symmetry". Physics Letters A 103 (4): 163. Bibcode:1984PhLA..103..163G. doi:10.1016/0375-9601(84)90242-1.
  8. Paul Glendinning's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  9. Glendinning, P. (2014). "The Border Collision Normal Form with Stochastic Switching Surface". SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 13: 181. doi:10.1137/130931643.
  10. Paul, Glendinning (1994). Stability, Instability and Chaos: An Introduction to the Theory of Nonlinear Differential Equations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521425667.
  11. Glendinning, P. (2004). "The mathematics of motion camouflage". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271 (1538): 477–81. doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2622. PMC 1691618. PMID 15129957.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, March 17, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.