Mathematics

Andrew Osbaldestin

Prof. Andrew Osbaldestin

Head of Department

Mathematics

Lion Gate Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3HF

andrew.osbaldestin@port.ac.uk

http://osbalda.myweb.port.ac.uk/

Profile

Andrew is the Head of the Department of Mathematics, an Associate Member of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, and a member of the Nonlinear and Complex Systems Group.

Research Focus

Andrew's main area of research interest is in non-linear dynamics and chaos.

Recent Publications

See my Academic Web Page for an up-to-date publications list.

Collaborators

  • Ben Mestel, University of Stirling
  • Alexei Tsygvintsev, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
  • Sergey Kuznetsov, Theoretical Nonlinear Dynamics Group, Saratov State University and Saratov Branch of the Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Andrew Burbanks, University of Portsmouth
  • Pierre Moussa, Saclay, Paris
  • Simonetta Abenda, Bologna University

Grants

  • March 2004. EPSRC. To support collaboration with Prof A Pinto, University of Porto, Dynamical Systems and Quantum Mechanics (£3,280)
  • September 2003. DSTL. Dynamicaly Evolving Networks (£15,000)
  • February 2003. Royal Society grant for exchange visits with Saratov State University and Saratov Branch of the Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the project Renormalization studies at the onset of chaos (£10,000)
  • July 2001. Alexei Tsygvintsev has been appointed for three years as Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow on the project Analytical and Numerical Investigation of Universality in Dynamical Systems (£77,439)
  • November 2001. Sergey Kuznetsov (Saratov State University and Saratov Branch of the Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences) will be a visitor from 7 November - 5 December 2001 under London Mathematical Society International Short Visits scheme (£1,800)
  • October 2000. James Meiss (University of Colorado) visited in October 2000 under London Mathematical Society Scheme 2 (£530)
  • October 2000. To fund reciprocal visits with Ben Mestel (Exeter University) 2000-2001 under London Mathematical Society Scheme 4 (£400)
  • October 1998. To fund reciprocal visits with Ben Mestel (Exeter University) 1998-1999 under London Mathematical Society Scheme 4 (£300)

Postgraduate Students

  • Martin Sarkis (PhD 1993), A Taylor Series Approach to the Construction of Scaling Functions
  • Andrew Burbanks (PhD 1997), Renormalization for Siegel Discs
  • James Stirling (PhD 1999), Dynamical Systems Models of Patchiness in Estuaries
  • Nira Chamberlain 2005- Dynamical Evolving Networks