Simon N. Chandler-Wilde Professor of Applied Mathematics in Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Head of School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Meteorology Building University of Reading Early Gate, PO Box 243 Berkshire, RG6 6BB, United Kingdom Email: S.N.Chandler-Wilde@reading.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)118 378 6017 Fax: +44 (0)118 931 3423

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Research Interests

• Theoretical and computational aspects of direct and inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering, especially rough surface scattering and high frequency analysis and numerical methods.
• Integral equations and their numerical treatment
• Boundary integral equation methods
• Outdoor sound propagation and noise control
• Numerical conformal mapping and mesh generation

Current Teaching

For course information, lecture notes, problem sheets, etc, go to Blackboard.


• MA4XJ/MAMB8 Integral Equations.

Current and Recent Research Grants

• Advanced numerical techniques for characterising obstructions in sewer pipes. EPSRC, 2010-2013. With Kirill Horoshenkov (Bradford) & Ray Kirby (Brunel).
• New generation finite element methods for seismic forward modelling. NERC and Schlumberger Cambridge Research, 2010-2013. With Steve Langdon & Timo Betcke (Reading).
• Boundary integral equation methods for high frequency scattering problems. EPSRC, 2009-2012. With Steve Langdon (Reading), Ivan Graham & Valery Smyshlyaev (Bath).
• Scattering by unbounded surfaces. Leverhulme Trust, 2006-2007.
• Wave scattering in unbounded domains: operator algebra and limit operator techniques. EU, 2005-2007. With Marko Lindner (Chemnitz).
• Finite element methods for scattering by rough surfaces. EPSRC, 2003-2005. With Peter Monk (Delaware)
• Developments in boundary element methods for acoustics and electromagnetics. EPSRC, 2004-2005. With Sia Amini (Salford), Ke Chen (Liverpool), Penny Davies (Strathclyde), & Ivan Graham (Bath).
• Singular integral equations on infinite domains with application to scattering by unbounded Lipschitz surfaces. EPSRC Mathematics Programme, 2001-2002. With Bo Zhang (Coventry).
• Royal Society funding for support of visit of Professor David Natroshvili, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, 2000-2001.
• Innovative boundary element techniques in computational acoustics and electromagnetics. EPSRC Computational Partial Differential Equations Initiative, 2000-2001. With Ke Chen (Liverpool), Penny Davies (Strathclyde), Ivan Graham (Bath), & Mireille Levy (RAL). Final Report on the Grant for EPSRC. (As a result of the IGR procedure this grant was rated Internationally Leading in all three categories with an overall rating of Outstanding.)
• Integral equation methods for direct and inverse scattering by unbounded surfaces. EPSRC Computational Partial Differential Equations Initiative, 1999-2003. Final Report on the Grant for EPSRC.
• The scattering of elastic waves by one-dimensional rough surfaces. EU Training and Mobility of Researchers (support of Tilo Arens), 1998-2000.
• Boundary element methods in outdoor sound propagation. Transport Research Laboratory, 1997-2001.
• Simulation of the performance of louvred barriers. Transport Research Laboratory, 1998.
• Direct and inverse scattering by rough surfaces. British Council, 1997-2000. With A Kirsch (Mathematisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe).
• Acoustic performance of noise barriers. EPSRC, 1996-99. With D C Hothersall & K V Horoshenkov (Bradford University).
• Boundary element simulation of traffic noise propagation from shallow cuttings. Transport Research Laboratory, 1995-96.
• Integral equations on the real line with application to diffraction grating and related problems. EPSRC, 1994-1997. With A D Rawlins & D C Hothersall (Bradford University).
• Control of road traffic noise. EPSRC, 1992-96. With D C Hothersall (Bradford University) & K Attenborough (Open University).
• Direct and inverse problems in the theory of diffraction gratings. British Council, 1994-97.

Recent Research Preprints

• High frequency scattering by convex curvilinear polygons.
  S Langdon, M Mokgolele & S N Chandler-Wilde. University of Reading Maths Preprint Series 2008/06, and to appear in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
• Limit operators, collective compactness, and the spectral theory of infinite matrices.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & M Lindner. University of Reading Maths Preprint Series 2008/12, and submitted to Memoirs AMS.
• A Nyström Method for a Boundary Value Problem arising in Unsteady Water Wave.
  M D Preston, P G Chamberlain & S N Chandler-Wilde. University of Reading Maths Preprint Series 2009/14.
• Variational approach in weighted Sobolev spaces to scattering by unbounded rough surfaces.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & J Elschner. University of Reading Maths Preprint Series 2009/17.


• A Galerkin boundary element method for a high frequency scattering problem.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, S Langdon, & L Ritter 2002 Brunel University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Technical Report TR//02, December 2002.
• A BMIA canonical grid method for scattering by rough surfaces.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, B Birbiad, & A Meier 2002 Brunel University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Technical Report TR/03/02, January 2002.
• A point source method for inverse scattering by rough surfaces.
  C D Lines & S N Chandler-Wilde 2002 Brunel University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Technical Report TR/01/02, January 2002.
• Solvability and spectral properties of integral equations on the real line in weighted and L^p Spaces.
  T Arens, S N Chandler-Wilde, & K O Haseloh 2000 Brunel University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Technical Report TR/14/00, November 2000.

Recent Research Publications

• Boundary integral methods in high frequency scattering.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & I G Graham in Highly Oscillatory Problems, B Engquist, T Fokas, E Hairer, A Iserles, editors, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 154-193.
• The PML for rough surface scattering.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & P Monk 2009 Applied Numerical Mathematics 59, 2131-2154.
• Condition number estimates for combined potential boundary integral operators in acoustic scattering.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, I G Graham, S Langdon & M Lindner 2009 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 21, 229-279.
• Existence and uniqueness of solutions for acoustic scattering over infinite obstacles.
  A Peplow & S N Chandler-Wilde 2008 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 345, 305-321.
• Sufficiency of Favard's condition for a class of band-dominated operators on the axis.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & M Lindner 2008 Journal of Functional Analysis 254, 1146-1159.
• An integral equation method for a boundary value problem arising in unsteady water wave problems.
  M D Preston, P G Chamberlain & S N Chandler-Wilde 2008 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 20, 121-152.
• Boundary integral equations on unbounded rough surfaces: Fredholmness and the finite section method.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & M Lindner 2008 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 20, 13-48.
• Wave-number-explicit bounds in time-harmonic scattering.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & P Monk 2008 SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 39, 1428-1455.
• A Galerkin boundary element method for high frequency scattering by convex polygons.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & S Langdon 2007 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 43, 610-640.
• The mathematics of scattering by unbounded, rough, inhomogeneous layers.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, P Monk & M Thomas 2007 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 204, 549-559.
• A collocation method for high frequency scattering by convex polygons.
  S Arden, S N Chandler-Wilde & S Langdon 2007 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 204, 334-343.
• A well-posed integral equation formulation for 3D rough surface scattering.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, E Heinemeyer & R Potthast 2006 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 462, 3683–3705. DOI:10.1098/rspa.2006.1752
• On integral equation and least squares methods for scattering by diffraction gratings.
  T Arens, S N Chandler-Wilde & J A DeSanto 2006 Communications in Computational Physics 1, 1010-1042.
• A wavenumber independent boundary element method for an acoustic scattering problem.
  S Langdon & S N Chandler-Wilde 2006 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 43, 2450-2477.
• Acoustic scattering by mildly rough unbounded surfaces in three dimensions.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, E Heinemeyer & R Potthast 2006 SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 66, 1002-1026.
• Existence, uniqueness and variational methods for scattering by unbounded rough surfaces.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & P Monk 2005 SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 37, 598-618.
• A time domain point source method for inverse scattering by rough surfaces.
  C D Lines & S N Chandler-Wilde 2005 Computing 75, 157-180.
• Solvability and Fredholm properties of integral equations on the half-line in weighted spaces.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & K O Haseloh 2005 Integral Equations and Operator Theory 51, 5-34.
• A boundary integral equation formulation for the Helmholtz equation in a locally perturbed half-plane.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & A T Peplow 2005 Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 85, 79-88.
• A high-wavenumber boundary-element method for an acoustic scattering problem.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, S Langdon, & L Ritter 2004 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A 362, 647-671.
• Solvability and spectral properties of integral equations on the real line: II. L^p spaces and applications.
  T Arens, S N Chandler-Wilde, & K O Haseloh 2003 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 15, 1-35.
• The Dirichlet metaharmonic Green's function for unbounded regions.
  D Natroshvili & S N Chandler-Wilde 2003 Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics 30, 51-103.
• Uniqueness, existence, and integral equation formulations for interface scattering problems.
  D Natroshvili, T Arens, & S N Chandler-Wilde 2003 Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics 30, 105-146.
• Integral equation methods for scattering by infinite rough surfaces.
  B Zhang & S N Chandler-Wilde 2003 Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 26, 463-488.
• The domain derivative in rough surface scattering and rigorous estimates for first order perturbation theory.
  S N Chandler-Wilde & R Potthast 2002 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 458, 2967-3001.
• Solvability and spectral properties of integral equations on the real line: I. weighted spaces of continuous functions.
  T Arens, S N Chandler-Wilde, & K O Haseloh 2002 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 272, 276-302.
• A generalised collectively compact operator theory with an application to second kind integral equations on unbounded domains .
  S N Chandler-Wilde & B Zhang 2002 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 14, 11-52.
• Efficient calculation of two-dimensional periodic and waveguide acoustic Green's functions.
  K V Horoshenkov & S N Chandler-Wilde 2002 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111, 1610-1622.
• A fast two-grid and finite section method for a class of integral equations on the real line with application to an acoustic scattering problem in the half-plane.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, M Rahman, &, C R Ross 2002 Numerische Mathematik 93, 1-51. Published electronically 15 November 2001, DOI 10.1007/s002110100373

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• An integral equation method for inverse scattering by rough surfaces.
  C D Lines & S N Chandler-Wilde 2001 in Proceedings of the Third UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Brighton, Brighton, September 2001, pp. 258-267. University of Brighton Press. P.J. Harris (ed.)
• On the stability and convergence of the finite section method for integral equation formulations of rough surface scattering.
  A Meier & S N Chandler-Wilde 2001 Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 24, 209-232.

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• A Nyström method for a class of integral equations on the real line with applications to scattering by diffraction gratings and rough surfaces.
  A Meier, T Arens, S N Chandler-Wilde, & A Kirsch 2000 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 12, 281-321.
• Integral equation methods for scattering by one-dimensional rough surfaces.
  T Arens, S N Chandler-Wilde, & A Meier 2000 in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 2000, pp. 3-13. SIAM. A Bermúdez, D Gómez, C Hazard, P Joly, J E Roberts (eds.) (Invited plenary paper.)
• Numerical conformal mapping and mesh generation for polygonal and multiply-connected regions.
  B Lin & S N Chandler-Wilde 2000 Journal of Hydroinformatics 2, 255-267.
• On the solvability of second kind integral equations on the real line.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, B Zhang, & C R Ross 2000 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 245, 28-51.
• Proceedings of the Second UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods,
  L C Wrobel & S N Chandler-Wilde, editors, 1999. Uxbridge: Brunel University Press.
• Scattering by infinite one-dimensional rough surfaces.
  S N Chandler-Wilde, C R Ross, & B Zhang 1999 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 455, 3767-3787.

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• Noise propagation from a cutting of arbitrary cross-section and impedance.
  A T Peplow & S N Chandler-Wilde 1999 Journal of Sound and Vibration 223, 355-378.
• The combined effects of porous asphalt surfacing and barriers on traffic noise.

G R Watts, S N Chandler-Wilde, & P A Morgan 1999 Applied Acoustics 58, 351-377.
• Scattering of electromagnetic waves by rough interfaces and inhomogeneous layers.

S N Chandler-Wilde & B Zhang 1999 SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 30, 559-583.
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• A uniqueness result for scattering by infinite rough surfaces.

S N Chandler-Wilde & B Zhang 1998 SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 58, 1774-1790.
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• Acoustic scattering by an inhomogeneous layer on a rigid plate.

B Zhang & S N Chandler-Wilde 1998 SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 58, 1931-1950.
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• Influence of shape and absorbing surface - A numerical study of railway noise barriers.

P A Morgan, D C Hothersall, & S N ChandlerWilde 1998 Journal of Sound and Vibration 217, 405-417.
• Padé approximants for the acoustical properties of rigid frame porous media with pore size distributions.

K V Horoshenkov, K Attenborough, & S N ChandlerWilde 1998 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104, 1198-1209.
• Electromagnetic scattering by an inhomogeneous conducting or dielectric layer on a perfectly conducting plate.

S N Chandler-Wilde & B Zhang 1998 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 454, 519-542.
• Tyndall Medal lecture: the boundary element method in outdoor noise propagation.

S N Chandler-Wilde 1997 Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 19(8), 27-50.
• On the solvability of a class of second kind integral equations on unbounded domains.

S N Chandler-Wilde & B Zhang 1997 Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 214, 482-502.
• The impedance boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a half-plane.

S N Chandler-Wilde 1997 Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 20, 813-840.
• A depth-integrated 2D coastal and estuarine model with conformal boundary-fitted mesh generation.

B Lin & S N Chandler-Wilde 1996 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 23, 819-846.
• Scattering by rough surfaces: the Dirichlet problem for the Helmholtz equation in a non-locally perturbed half-plane.

S N Chandler-Wilde & C R Ross 1996 Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 19, 959-976.
• Asymptotic behavior at infinity of solutions of multidimensional second kind integral equations.

S N Chandler-Wilde & A T Peplow 1995 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 7, 303-327.
• Uniqueness results for direct and inverse scattering by infinite surfaces in a lossy medium.

S N Chandler-Wilde & C R Ross 1995 Inverse Problems 10, 1063-1067.
• Padé approximants for the acoustical characteristics of porous media. S N Chandler-Wilde & K V Horoshenkov 1995 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 98, 1119-1129.
• Approximate solution of second kind integral equations on infinite cylindrical surfaces. A T Peplow & S N Chandler-Wilde 1995 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 32, 594-609.
• Multiple-edge noise barriers. D H Crombie, D C Hothersall & S N Chandler-Wil de 1995 Applied Acoustics 44, 353-367.
• Evaluation of a boundary integral formulation for the conformal mapping of the unit disk onto a simply-connected domain. S N Chandler-Wilde, J Levesley & D M Hough 1995 Advances in Computational Mathematics 3, 115-135.
• Boundary value problems for the Helmholtz equation in a half-plane. S N Chandler-Wilde 1995 in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France, April 1995, pp. 188-197. SIAM.
• Scattering by one-dimensional rough surfaces. S N Chandler-Wilde & C R Ross 1995 in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France, April 1995, pp. 208-215. SIAM.
• A uniformly valid far field asymptotic expansion for the Green function for two-dimensional propagation above a homogeneous impedance plane. S N Chandler-Wilde & D C Hothersall 1995 Journal of Sound and Vibration 182, 665-675.
• Efficient calculation of the Green function for acoustic propagation above a homogeneous impedance plane. S N Chandler-Wilde & D C Hothersall 1995 Journal of Sound and Vibration 180, 705-724.
• On asymptotic behavior at infinity and the finite section method for integral equations on the half-line. S N Chandler-Wilde 1994 Journal of Integral Equations and Applications 6, 37-74.
• Some uniform stability and convergence results for integral equations on the real line and projection methods for their solution. S N Chandler-Wilde 1993 IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis 13, 509-535.

Previous Research Students and Staff

Former Students

• Dr David Berry, PhD awarded October 1990 from Department of Engineering Mechanics, The Open University. "Acoustic scattering by near-surface inhomogeneities in a porous half-space". (Now at University of Evora, Portugal.)
• Professor Jeremy Levesley, PhD awarded July 1991 from Department of Mathematics, Coventry Polytechnic. "Fast integral equation methods for numerical conformal mapping and boundary fitted mesh generation". (Now at University of Leicester.)
• Dr Andrew Peplow. PhD awarded July 1996 from Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bradford. "Boundary integral equation methods in outdoor sound propagation". EPSRC funded. (Now at Applied Analysis and Computation Group, Imperial College London.)
• Dr Chris Ross, PhD awarded July 1997 from Brunel University. "Direct and inverse problems in rough surface scattering". EPSRC funded. (Now at European Patent Office in Munich.)
• Dr Philip Morgan, PhD awarded November 1999 from Brunel University. "Boundary element modelling and full scale measurement of the acoustic performance of outdoor noise barriers". (Click here to download thesis.) EPSRC CASE Student with Transport Research Laboratory. (Now Senior Transport Noise Researcher at the Transport Research Laboratory.)
• Dr Tilo Arens, PhD awarded June 2000 from Brunel University. "Scattering of elastic waves by rough surfaces". (Click here to download thesis.) EPSRC/DAAD/EU funded. (Now at Mathematisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe, following a year's postdoc at Brunel.)
• Dr Mizanur Rahman, PhD awarded November 2000 from Brunel University. "Fast boundary element methods for integral equations on infinite domains and scattering by unbounded surfaces". (Click here to download thesis.) EPSRC CASE Student with Radio Communications Research Unit, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. (Now Analyst Programmer (Credit Risk Management Systems), Global Markets, HSBC Bank Plc, email: mizanur.rahman@hsbcgroup.com)
• Dr Anja Meier, PhD awarded May 2001 from Brunel University. "Numerical treatment of integral equations on the real line with application to acoustic scattering by unbounded rough surfaces". (Click here to download thesis.) EPSRC CASE Student with Transport Research Laboratory. (Now at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany.)
• Dr Sumlearng Chunrungsikul, PhD awarded December 2001 from Brunel University. "Numerical quadrature methods for singular and nearly singular integrals". (Click here to download thesis.) Thai Goverment funded. (Now Lecturer at King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thonburi (KMUTT), email: isumikul@kmutt.ac.th.)
• Dr Claire Lines, PhD awarded July 2003 from Brunel University. "Inverse scattering by unbounded rough surfaces". (Click here to download thesis.) EPSRC CASE Student with Radio Communications Research Unit, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Previous Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

• Professor Bo Zhang, January 1995 to November 1997. EPSRC funded. Project title "Integral equations on the real line with application to diffraction grating and related problems". (Now Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Coventry and Professor in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.)
• Professor Dr Roland Potthast. March 2000 to April 2001. EPSRC funded. Project title "Integral equation methods for direct and inverse scattering by unbounded surfaces". (Now Group Leader, New Numerical Methods for the Solution of Inverse Problems at the Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Göttingen.)
• Dr Tilo Arens. October 2000 to September 2001. EPSRC Mathematics Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Project title: "Fast numerical methods for integral equations and their application in direct and inverse scattering problems". (Now at Mathematisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe.)
• Dr Steve Langdon. EPSRC funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Project title "Integral equation methods for direct and inverse scattering by unbounded surfaces". (Now a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow here at the University of Reading.)

Current Research Students and Staff

Current Research Staff

• Dr Marko Lindner, EU Marie Curie Research Fellow (from 1st November 2005). Project Title "Wave scattering in unbounded domains: operator algebra and limit operator techniques"

Current Students

• Bouazza Birbiad, PhD Student (at Brunel University): Fast integral equation methods for rough surface scattering. Full-time (since 9/2000), EPSRC funded.
• Scott La Porte, PhD Student (at Brunel University): Efficient quadrature methods for Green's functions in acoustics. Full-time (since 9/2001), EPSRC funded.
• Mark Preston, PhD Student: Boundary integral equation methods for fully nonlinear water waves. Full-time (since 1/2004), EPSRC funded.
• Martin Thomas, PhD Student: Variational methods for rough surface scattering. Full-time (since 9/2004), EPSRC funded.

Some Recent and Current Collaborators

• Tilo Arens, Mathematisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe.
• John DeSanto, Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines.
• Kirill Horoshenkov & David Hothersall, School of Engineering, Design & Technology, University of Bradford. (Funded by EPSRC.)
• Andreas Kirsch, Mathematisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe. (Funded by British Council/DAAD.)
• Binliang Lin, School of Engineering, University of Cardiff.
• Peter Monk, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware.
• David Natroshvili, Department of Mathematics, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi. (Funded by Royal Society.)
• Andrew Peplow, Applied Analysis and Computation Group, Imperial College London.
• Roland Potthast, Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Göttingen.
• Bo Zhang, School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Coventry. (Funded by EPSRC.)
• Greg Watts, Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berks. (Funded by EPSRC.)

Links to Recent Conferences

• 10th Conference on Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications, Brunel University, June 1999.
• Second UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, Brunel University, 13-14 September 1999
• Scottish Computational Mathematics Symposium, University of Edinburgh, 15 September 1999
• PIERS 2000, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 5-14 July 2000
• Fifth International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 10-14 July, 2000.
• Boundary Integral Methods: Theory and Applications, University of Bath, 12-16 September, 2000.
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Innovative Boundary Element Techniques in Computational Acoustics and Electromagnetics, 14-15 September 2000, University of Bath
• Mini-Workshop: Algorithms for the Arithmetic of Dense Matrices from BEM/FEM, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 8-14 July 2001.
• Third UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Brighton, 10-11 September 2001
• JEE '02, European Symposium on Numerical Methods in Electromagnetics, Toulouse, 6-8 March 2002.
• NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on Numerical Methods in Forward and Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering, 3-7 June 2002, Colorado School of Mines
• LMS Durham Symposium Computational Methods for Wave Propagation in Direct Scattering, 15-25 July 2002, Durham, UK
• 11th Conference on Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications, Brunel University, June 2003.
• Waves 2003 Sixth International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, June 30 - July 4, 2003, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
• Fourth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Salford, 15-16 September 2003.
• Third International Conference on Boundary Integral Methods: Theory and Applications, 14-18 September 2004, University of Reading.
• Interdisciplinary Workshop on Developments in Boundary Element Methods for Acoustics and Electromagnetics, 15-18 September 2004, University of Reading.
• Dundee Numerical Analysis Conference, 28 June - 1 July 2005, University of Dundee, Scotland.
• LMS/EPSRC Short Course on Nonlinear Wave Phenomena, July 4-9, 2005, University of Reading
• LMS Durham Symposium on Operator Theory and Spectral Analysis, 2-12 August 2005, University of Durham.
• Fifth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Liverpool, 12-13 September 2005.
• One-Day Waves meeting at Reading, Friday September 16th.
• Workshop TiSCoPDE05, New Trends in Simulation and Control of PDEs, 26-28 September 2005, WIAS, Berlin.

Links to Forthcoming Conferences

• Fifth UK Conference on Boundary Integral Methods, University of Liverpool, 12-13 September 2005.
• LMS Durham Symposium on Operator Theory and Spectral Analysis, 2-12 August 2005, University of Durham, UK
• Workshop TiSCoPDE05, New Trends in Simulation and Control of PDEs, 26-28 September 2005, WIAS, Berlin, Germany.

Professional Affiliations

• Member of the Institute of Acoustics.
• Associate Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
• Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
• Member of the London Mathematical Society.

Bio Data

• Born Coventry, 29th December, 1959
• Secondary Education at Manchester Grammar School and Colchester Royal Grammar School.
• BSc Maths, Imperial College, London. MSc Engineering Maths, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. PhD on "Ground Effects in Environmental Sound Propagation" at University of Bradford.
• Lecturer in Mathematics, Coventry Polytechnic, 1987-1989.
• Lecturer in Civil Engineering, University of Bradford, 1989-1993.
• Lecturer in Mathematics, Brunel University, 1994-96.
• Promoted to Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Brunel University, October 1996.
• Awarded 1996 Tyndall Medal of the Institute of Acoustics, November 1997.
• Promoted to Reader in Applied Mathematics, Brunel University, October 2000.
• Appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Reading, September 2004.

Last updated 5 December 2005