People

These are the people involved in the project. See also the steering group and programme committee.

Project Co-ordinators

John Ball is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy. His main research areas lie in elasticity theory, the calculus of variations, and infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. He established the first global existence theorems for nonlinear elastostatics and developed a rigorous theory of cavitation in solids. With R.D. James (Minneapolis) he proposed and analyzed a mathematical theory of martensitic microstructure based on nonlinear elasticity and the calculus of variations, and analyzed a new mechanism for hysteresis in solids based on geometric incompatibility of parent and product phases. John Ball’s homepage.

Jon Chapman was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics and its Applications in 1999. As a member of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) he has been exposed to a wide variety of modelling problems. He is an expert in mathematical modelling and asymptotic analysis, and has contributed to the theory of dislocations, the macroscopic theory of superconductivity, exponential asymptotics, ray theory and the theory of diffraction, and hydrodynamic stability. Jon Chapman’s homepage.

Endre Süli is Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (Oxford’s Computer Science Department). He has contributed to the theory of finite difference and finite volume approximation of distributional solutions of PDEs, the mathematical analysis of characteristic- and evolution-Galerkin methods for nonlinear conservation laws, h- and hp-adaptive finite element approximation of hyperbolic and mixed elliptic-hyperbolic problems, the numerical analysis of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, the theory of multiscale, stabilized and discontinuous finite element methods, and the mathematical and numerical analysis of non-Newtonian and polymeric flows. Endre Süli’s homepage.

Project Manager

Emma Waters.

Large Project Co-ordinator

Chris Breward is the Deputy Director of OCIAM, research facilitator at the Mathematical Institute and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Christ Church. He is interested in the mathematical modelling of real world phenomena which arise in industry and medicine, in particular fluid flows containing surfactants (Marangoni flows), the evolution of thin liquid films and sheets and the growth of vascular tumours. He is involved in EPSRC Industrial CASE Projects in curtain coating and polymer-surfactant interactions and an EPSRC Mathematics CASE Project in screen printing, and is the coinvestigator on the EPSRC-funded Mathematics in Medicine Study Group series. Chris Breward’s homepage.

Post-doctoral Researchers

Gareth Jones has spent three years at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics as a D.Phil. student, studying the mathematical modelling of anechoic tiles for underwater applications. As a post-doctoral researcher he studies the link between micro- and macroscopic theories for growth in biological tissue. His interests include solid mechanics, asymptotic analysis and mathematical modelling. Gareth Jones’s homepage.

Richard Norton completed his undergraduate degree in New Zealand before studying towards his PhD at Bath. His main research interest is numerical analysis and the numerical solution of PDEs (in particular, convergence analysis). His research project in OxMOS is microstructure evolution and morphology. Richard Norton’s homepage.

Christoph Ortner studied Mathematics in Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology, received an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis at the University of Oxford and has submitted for a D.Phil. in Numerical Analysis at the University of Oxford. His main research interests are the mathematical and numerical analysis of atomistic material models, mathematical and computational models of fracture and variational techniques in numerical analysis. Christoph Ortner’s homepage.

Pras Pathmanathan studied undergraduate mathematics at Cambridge and submitted a PhD in Computation Biology at Oxford. His research interests include the use of nonlinear elasticity theory and the finite element method to model soft tissue mechanics accurately and efficiently, in particular to predict tumour location in the breast and to model the mechanical deformation of the heart and coupling this with models of cardio-electro-physiology. Pras Pathmanathan’s homepage.

D.Phil. Students

Siobhan Burke studied Mathematics at the University of Oxford for four years, obtaining an MMath degree. She is now reading for a D.Phil. in Numerical Analysis, working with Endre Süli.

Duvan Henao worked at the Catholic University of Chile, obtaining a Masters degree in Mathematics, and is now reading for a D.Phil. in Mathematics with John Ball.

Konstantinos Koumatos studied Mathematics at the university of Bath and obtained the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He is currently a second year DPhil student under the supervision of John Ball and he is mainly interested in martensitic transformations and the formation of microstructure in shape memory alloys.

Bernhard Langwallner is originally from Austria and studied for degrees in physics and mathematics at the Technical University of Munich. He is now reading for a DPhil in Numerical Analysis working with Endre Suli and Christoph Ortner. His research interests include the numerical analysis of mixed continuum atomistic models of solids and electronic density functionals. Bernhard Langwallner’s homepage.

Benson Muite is a fourth year D.Phil. student in mathematics studying continuum models for microstructure formation in shape memory alloys. He was a member of the Multimat research network. His previous work was in fluid and granular mechanics. He is supervised by John Ball and P. Plecháč. Benson Muite’s homepage.

Yasemin Sengul studied Mathematics at Bilkent University, Ankara, in Turkey for 5 years and obtained B.Sc and M.S degrees there. She completed her M.S thesis on analysis, logarithmic dimension and bases in Whitney spaces. She is currently a D.Phil. student of John Ball studying on solid mechanics, particularly on a nonlinear dynamical problem in viscoelasticity. Yasemin Sengul’s homepage.

Tim Squires studied Pure and Applied Mathematics for his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University before studying for a PGCE and teaching at Magdalen College School in Oxford for 6 years. He then returned to academia, taking an MSc course in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing at Oxford University before starting on his current course, a D.Phil. in Mathematics at Worcester College, Oxford. His studies relate to the inverse elasticity problems that arise in analysing ultrasound images of soft tissues. In his spare time, he plays football for the university and is currently president of the university football club. Tim Squires’s homepage.

Yichao Zhu studied maths in Fudan University in Shanghai for 4 years, and did a master course in numerical computation in two-phase flow there, too. He is now a D.Phil. student in the modelling of dislocations supervised by Prof. Chapman at the University of Oxford. Yichao Zhu’s homepage.