Mike Jeffrey

R.

Teaching

Mike on a rock

I'm currently teaching lecture courses in Continuum Mathematics (EMAT31410), and Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos (EMAT33100). (Course materials available internally on "Blackboard"), containing elements of various mathematical methods with applications, specifically: Asymptotics, Complex Functions, Partial Differential Equations, and Nonlinear Dynamics. Previously I taught Engineering Physics I (EMAT10005).

Office hours... whenever my door is open, which is most of the time excluding Fridays, when I wander around seeking sources of coffee.

Enthusiastic students are welcome to enquire about PhD/postgraduate studies at any time, I usually have a few project ideas lying around, and occasionally some sources of funding. (A few open problems are also listed below as potential projects.)

PhD students:
2015-2019 Simon Webber worked on Indeterminacy in nonsmooth systems. (Scholarship, University of Bristol)

2013-2019 Georgios Kafanas worked on Using networks of interacting topologies to optimize inverter architectures. (BCCS University of Bristol, co-supervised with Xibo Yuan)

2014-2016 Kamila Andrade completed her PhD on Degenerate cycles in planar piecewise smooth flows. (UniCAMP/FAPESP, co-supervised with Marco Antonio Teixeira)

Open problems:
Classify hidden bifurcations

Characterize jitter and its consequences for decision making

Characterize exit cascades in systems with high numbers of switches, and their applications to crowd dynamics

The design of physical science is .. to learn the language and interpret the oracles of the Universe.

Sir William Rowan Hamilton, lecture on Astronomy 1831

Apart from not learning french, je ne regrette croissant.

Lee Mack, 2009

Updated January 2020 by MrJ.