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. When UMIST and Manchester merged in 2004 I was Head of School for the new institution.

I am on the Editorial Board of 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.

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 and is now in Portsmouth.
• Vicent Botella-Soler, currently in Austria.
• Martin Brown in EEE at Manchester.
• Chris Budd in Bath.
• Paul Chastell, who was a graduate student at UCL with Jaroslav Stark.
• Houman Dallali, currently at IIT, but then a PhD student for CICADA in Manchester.
• Ulrike Feudel then at the University of Potsdam, now in Oldenburg.
• Jason Gallas from Brazil.
• Jean-Marc Gambaudo, who is now back in Nice.
• Marc Goodfellow who was a post-doc in Manchester and is now in Exeter.
• Toby Hall, who is at the University of Liverpool.
• Andrew Hazel in Manchester.
• Tobias Oertel-Jaeger, then at Erlangen, now at Dresden.
• Mike Jeffrey, at the University of Bristol.
• Anne Juel in Manchester.
• Gerhard Keller in Erlangen.
• Patrick Keogh at Bath.
• Piotr Kowalczyk who was a post-doc with me and is now at MMU.
• Carlo Laing, who was my PhD student in Cambridge but now at Massey.
• John Leigh and his Optometry group in Ohio: K. Liao, R.M. Schneider, S.S. Yaniglos, G. Bertolini, R.N. Sawyer, Jr. and M. Reschke.
• Ian Loram at MMU.
• Jerome Los in Nice, now Marseille.
• Gustavo Medrano Cerda at IIT, Genoa.
• Karin Mora who was a PhD student in Bath.
• Tom Mullin at the University of Manchester.
• Salim Nema, who was a post-doc with Piotr at MMU.
• Arne Nordmark at KTH, Stockholm.
• Hinke Osinga in Exeter, but now in New Zealand.
• Juan Angel Oteo at the University of Valencia, Spain.
• Victoria Otero-Espinar in Santiago de Compostella
• M. Pailha who was with Anne Juel in Manchester.
• Louise Perry, who was an M.Sc. student at Cambridge.
• Arkady Pikovsky at the University of Potsdam.
• Silvia Pina Romero, who was my PhD student in Manchester.
• Mike Proctor in Cambridge.
• James Robinson at the University of Warwick.
• Jose Ros at the University of Valencia, Spain.
• Jon Shapiro in Manchester.
• Nikita Sidorov, at Manchester.
• Lenny Smith at LSE.
• Colin Sparrow, now at Warwick.
• Jaroslav Stark.
• 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.
• Renato Vitolo at Exeter.
• Jan Wiersig, who was a post-doc with me at QMW, but is now in Magdeburg.
• Chi Hong (Ivan) Wong, who was my PhD student in Manchester.

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.