POSTPONED
to later in the year

Dr. Dwight Barkley, Reader in Mathematics and Deputy Director of the University of Warwick’s Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research Programme (MIR@W). Expertise: computational partial differential equations, numerical algorithms, and large-scale simulations of complex fluid flow and waves in biological media.

Professor David Broomhead, Professor of Mathematics at UMIST. Expertise: nonlinear dynamics and signal processing. He was the first to introduce the idea of radial basis functions as an alternative to neural networks and, while working at RSRE Malvern, showed how these could be implemented in adaptive digital signal processing architectures. Recently, he has shown how these techniques can be used for data compression.

Dr. James Montaldi, Professeur, Institut Non-LinÈaire de Nice and Ecole SupËrieure en Sciences Informatiques, University of Nice. Visiting Research Fellow, University of Warwick.
Expertise: bifurcation theory and Hamiltonian dynamical systems.

Professor Alan Newell, Chairman of Mathematics Department, University of Warwick. He has previously served as Chairman of Mathematics (1985-95) and Director of the Applied Mathematics Interdisciplinary Program (1981-85) at the University of Arizona, and as Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clarkson University (1970-79). He is one of the founding editors of ‘Physica D’, the leading journal in nonlinear science.
Expertise: pattern formation and the general behaviour of many body systems far from equilibrium, nonlinear waves and solitons, turbulence and nonlinear optics, in which areas he has written 2 books and over 150 research and review articles. He also has a general interest in the dynamics of complex systems.

Professor David Rand, Professor of Mathematics and also the Director of the University of Warwick’s Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research Programme (MIR@W), its Mathematical Medicine Initiative (MiMI), and the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory. He has published extensively in leading journals, primarily in areas in mathematics and the physical and biological sciences, but also in economics. He founded the internationally renowned journal ‘Nonlinearity’ in 1988, and is a recipient of the London Mathematical Society’s Junior Whithead prize, the UK’s top award for mathematicians under 40.
Expertise: nonlinear dynamics and its applications, nonlinear analysis and mathematical biology.

Professor George Rowlands, Professor of Physics, University of Warwick. He is the author (with E Infield) of "Nonlinear waves, solitons and chaos", and (with JC Sprott) of three software packages: one on chaos demonstrations, and two on chaos data analysis, all published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Expertise: his main interest over the last thirty years has been the study of nonlinear effects in plasmas: one of his current interests in this area is the nonlinear behaviour of plasmas in the near earth environment.

Professor Sebastian van Strien, the Mathematics Department, University of Warwick.
Expertise: low-dimensional dynamics and bifurcations of attractors, coupled lattice maps, and applications of dynamical systems to economics.