Paul Glendinning

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Paul Glendinning
Born
Paul Alexander Glendinning
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
AwardsAdams Prize (1992)
Scientific career
FieldsNon-linear dynamics[1]
Institutions

Queen Mary University of London

ThesisHomoclinic Bifurcations (1985)
Doctoral advisorNigel Weiss[2]
Website

Paul Glendinning is a professor of Applied Mathematics, in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester who is known for his work on dynamical systems, specifically models of the time-evolution of complex mathematical or physical processes. His main areas of research are bifurcation theory (particularly global bifurcations); synchronization and blowout bifurcations; low-dimensional maps; and quasi-periodically forced systems.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Education[edit]

He gained his PhD from King's College, Cambridge in 1985 with a thesis entitled Homoclinic Bifurcations under the supervision of Nigel Weiss.

Career and research[edit]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Warwick, he returned to Cambridge, with a Junior Research Fellowship at King's. In 1987 he moved to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as Director of Studies in Applied Mathematics. In 1992 he won the Adams Prize. In 1996 he was appointed to a chair at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London and then to a chair at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 2000.

In 2004 the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged and he was appointed as head of the School of Mathematics formed by the merger of the Mathematics Departments in the former institutions. His term of office as head of school expired in August 2008.

He was Scientific Director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh from 2016 to 2021. In 2021 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[12]

He is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics and the journal Dynamical Systems.

Glendinning was appointed president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in January 2022[13]

Personal life[edit]

Glendinning lives in Marsden, West Yorkshire as of 2012.[14] He is the son of the academic Nigel Glendinning and the writer and broadcaster Victoria Glendinning. His brother is the philosopher Simon Glendinning.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Paul Glendinning publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Paul Glendinning at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Glendinning, P.; Sparrow, C. (1984). "Local and global behavior near homoclinic orbits". Journal of Statistical Physics. 35 (5–6): 645. Bibcode:1984JSP....35..645G. doi:10.1007/BF01010828. S2CID 120754780.
  4. ^ Faces of Mathematics
  5. ^ Glendinning, P.; Perry, L. P. (1997). "Melnikov analysis of chaos in a simple epidemiological model". Journal of Mathematical Biology. 35 (3): 359–73. doi:10.1007/s002850050056. PMID 9120378. S2CID 41903562.
  6. ^ Glendinning, P.; Sparrow, C. (1986). "T-points: A codimension two heteroclinic bifurcation". Journal of Statistical Physics. 43 (3–4): 479. Bibcode:1986JSP....43..479G. doi:10.1007/BF01020649. S2CID 120971266.
  7. ^ Glendinning, P. (1984). "Bifurcations near homoclinic orbits with symmetry". Physics Letters A. 103 (4): 163–166. Bibcode:1984PhLA..103..163G. doi:10.1016/0375-9601(84)90242-1.
  8. ^ Paul Glendinning's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. ^ Glendinning, P. (2014). "The Border Collision Normal Form with Stochastic Switching Surface" (PDF). SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. 13: 181–193. doi:10.1137/130931643.
  10. ^ Paul, Glendinning (1994). Stability, Instability and Chaos: An Introduction to the Theory of Nonlinear Differential Equations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521425667.
  11. ^ Glendinning, P. (2004). "The mathematics of motion camouflage". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 271 (1538): 477–81. doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2622. PMC 1691618. PMID 15129957.
  12. ^ "Professor Paul Glendinning FRSE". 5 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Institute of Mathematics and its Applications", Wikipedia, 18 January 2023, retrieved 18 January 2023
  14. ^ Glendinning, Paul (2012). Maths in minutes. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-0-85738-617-5. OCLC 909291826.
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