Research interests

Symmetries in Dynamical Models of Evolution and Ecology, Stochastic Modelling, Quantum Field Theory, Integrable Systems, Quantum Groups

Ph.D. students

• Samik Datta: "Dynamics of size spectra in marine ecosystems". A NERC-funded studentship. CASE partner CEFAS. Started December 2007. Co-supervised with Richard Law.
• Gian Marco Palamara: "Computational modelling of the collapse of ecological communities". A Microsoft Research Ph.D. studentship. Co-supervised with Owen Petchey (Sheffield), Rich Williams (Microsoft Research) and Nick Worsfold (York). Start October 2010.

Past Ph.D. students: Chris Gardner (Quantum Lie Algebras and their Real Forms), Brett Gibson (Boundary States in Low Rank ATFTs on the Half-Line), Alan George (Exactly Solvable Field Theories with Boundaries).

Recent Publications

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Recent Conference Presentations

• Scale-invariant model of marine population dynamics, Talk presented at the 3rd Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, Bordeaux, France, June 2010
• Jump-growth model for predator-prey dynamics, Talk at the workshop "Stochastic Population Dynamics and Applications in Spatial Ecology" at the ICMS, Edinburgh, June 2009
• A stochastic Model for the Size Spectrum in a Marine Ecosystem, Talk at the conference "Stochastics and Real World Models 2009" in Bielefeld, Germany, May 2009

Teaching

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