Keith Briggs - CV

qualifications

• PhD in mathematics (University of Melbourne)
• BSc (Hons) in mathematical physics (University of Adelaide)
• BSc in physics (University of Adelaide)
• Erdõs number=2
  

employment

• senior mathematician, BT Research
• visiting researcher, King's College Research Centre
• postdoctoral research associate, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge;
  and mathematics tutor, King's College, Cambridge
• research associate, Physics Department, University of Western Australia
• associate lecturer, Applied Mathematics Department, University of Adelaide
• research fellow, Mathematics Department, University of Melbourne
• research associate, Mathematics Department, La Trobe University
• tutor, Physics Department, University of Adelaide
• tutor, Physics Department, Prifysgol Cymru Bangor

other professional activities

• Examiner, MSc in Mathematics by Research, Queen Mary University of London
• Industrial Advisory Board, MSc in Modern Application of Mathematics, University of Bath
• organizer of the Royal Society meeting Networks: modelling and control; also editor of proceedings
• student supervision
• steering committee, MSc in Applied Numerical Computing, University of Manchester
• MASI strategy meeting, University of Leicester 2004 Dec 11
• Smith Institute meeting, University of Oxford 2004 Nov 22
• joint administrator of Mathematics of Networks mailing list
• CABDyN meeting, Oxford 2004 Sep 24
Meeting on mathematics of networks, Martlesham 2004 July 02
• EPSRC Novel Computation cluster, Bristol, Bath and Oxford 2003 Nov-Dec
• advisory panel, MSc in mathematics of networks, University of York
• advisory panel, eMathematics MSc, Brunel University
• advisory panel, research program in long-range dependence, QMUL & York
• complex systems thinktank, Smith Institute, Oxford
• supervision of MSc and PhD students from Oxford, York and UMIST
• former member of American Mathematical Society and SIAM
• contributor to Mathworld and GNU scientific library
• referee for EPSRC, IEE, IEEE, AMS, Physical Review, Physics Letters etc.
• I once held a chair in the Physics Department at the University of Oxford, while the professor stood on it to get a book down from a high shelf.

• exact real arithmetic
• historical linguistic cladistics
• simultaneous Diophantine approximation algorithms
• statistics of internet round-trip times
• Markov chain models of TCP
• efficiency of small-world graphs
• low-discrepancy sequences for image sampling
• complexity of Boolean functions
• parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamical systems models
• universal scaling in nonlinear dynamical systems
• biological effects of electromagnetic radiation
• Potts models and self-avoiding walks in statistical mechanics
• acoustics of baroque brass instruments
• quaternion iteration theory
• dense colloid simulations
• classical relativistic radiation theory
• My Ph.D. thesis: Feigenbaum scaling in discrete dynamical systems

non-professional activities

• committee member of the Eastern Early Music Forum
• member of the English Place-name Society
• member of the Scottish Place-name Society
• member of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland

awards, honours, and prizes

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