Keith Briggs - CV

qualifications

• Erdős number=2
  
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
• PhD in mathematics (University of Melbourne)
• BSc (Hons) in mathematical physics (University of Adelaide)
• BSc in physics (University of Adelaide)
• Matriculation, Unley High School

positions held

• 2000-present: research mathematician, BT Research and Network Strategy
• 2021-3: Industrial Fellow in the Institute for Mathematical Innovation at the University of Bath
• 2016-23: Alan Tayler Visiting Lecturer, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
• 1999: visiting researcher, King's College Research Centre
• 1997-1999: postdoctoral research associate, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge;
  and mathematics tutor, King's College, Cambridge
• 1995-6: research associate, Physics Department, University of Western Australia
• 1994: associate lecturer, Applied Mathematics Department, University of Adelaide
• 1992-3: research fellow, Mathematics Department, University of Melbourne
• 1989-90: research associate, Mathematics Department, La Trobe University
• 1986-9: tutor, Physics Department, University of Adelaide
• 1984-5: tutor, Physics Department, Prifysgol Cymru Bangor

other professional activities

• ORCID (very few of my papers currently listed)
• Guest editor for Special Issue of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Dynamic Spectrum Management for 5G (2017)
• 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 2004-07-02
• 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

awards, honours, and prizes