- Paul Glendinning
Paul Glendinning is a British mathematician known for his work on
dynamical systems , specifically models of the time-evolution of complex mathematical or physical processes. His main areas of research arebifurcation theory (particularly global bifurcations); synchronization and blowout bifurcations;low dimensional map s; and quasi-periodically forced systems.He gained his PhD from
King's College, Cambridge in 1985 with a thesis entitled "Homoclinic Bifurcations" under the supervision ofNigel Weiss .After post-doctoral 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 as Director of Studies in Applied Mathematics. In 1992 he won theAdams Prize . In 1996 he was appointed to a chair at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London and then to a chair at theUniversity of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 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 is on the Editorial Board of the "
European Journal of Applied Mathematics " and the journal "Dynamical Systems".Glendinning is married and lives in
Marsden, West Yorkshire . He is the son of the writer and broadcasterVictoria Glendinning .External links
* [http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~ndg/fom/glendinningqu.html Faces of Mathematics]
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