London Skyline
London Skyline
The Natural History Museum London
The Lorenz Attractor
A simple demonstration of chaos with 3 equations.
The Royal Albert Hall
Imperial College graduation ceremonies are held here
Nautilus shape: The Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden ratio
The Golden ratio is known as ϕ = ½(1+ √5) appears to be embedded in nature!
Kings College Cambridge
Sightseeing
The Natural History Museum
Charles Darwin monument
The River Thames
 
 

Academia

 

2003

PhD Mathematics,  Fluid Mechanics,  Imperial College London.

Topic: Periodically forced flows (a chaotic flow extension problem and an eigenvalue problem with complex solution)

Supervisors: Professor Philip Hall (Imperial College) and Demetrios Papageorgiou (Imperial College and New Jersey Institute Technology)

YouTube: Imperial College PG 2004 graduation ceremony click here

(Announcer: Professor John Elgin, Faculty representative: Professor Frank Leppington)

Postgraduate courses studied:

M3A3 Continuum Mechanics Professor Collin Atkinson
M3A11 Advanced Viscous Flow Professor Xuesong Wu
M3A31 High Reynolds number flow and boundary layer instability Professor Andrew Walton
M3N8 Finite Element Methods Professor Stephens
M3A35/A37 Bifurcations and computation Professor Stephens
M3N4 Computational Linear Algebra Professor Dan Moore
M3N9 Finite Difference Methods Professor Xuesong Wu
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viva supervisors: Professor Andrew Walton and Professor Sharon O. Stephen (also under the names: Sharon Seddougui, Sharon MacKerrell)

 

 1999

BSc Mathematics,  First Class Honours,  Imperial College London.

 

3rd year courses in 1998-99

M3A10 Viscous Flow Professor Philip Hall
M3A11 Advanced Inviscid Flow Theory Professor Richard Craster
M3A15 Waves and Solitons Dr John Gibbons
M3A2 Inviscid Fluid Mechanics Professor Frank Leppington
M3M3 Partial Differential Equations Professor John Elgin
M3M4 Techniques of Complex Variable Theory Professor Athanasios Fokas
M3M5 Advanced Ordinary Differential Equations Professor Xuesong Wu
M3SC Scientific Computation (C language) Dr Rupert Ford 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd year courses 1997-98

M2A1 Applied Mathematics Professor Frank Leppington
M2A2 Dynamics 1 Professor John D. Gibbon
M2M1 Vector Field Theory Professor Philip Hall
M2M2 Differential Equations Professor John Elgin
M2P1 Analysis 2 Professor Gordon D. James
M2P2 Groups, Rings and Numbers Professor Martin Liebeck
M2P3 Complex Analysis 1 Professor George Wilson
M2P4 Rings and Fields Professor Martin Liebeck

 

Second year project: Error correcting codes (Abigail Kirk and Harri Matikainen)

 

1st year courses 1996-97

M1A1 Classical Mechanics Professor Andrew O. Parry
M1F Foundations of Analysis Professor Gordon D. James
M1GLA Geometry and Linear Algebra Professor George Wilson
M1M Mathematical Methods Professor Frank Leppington and Professor John Cash
M1MA Mathematics and Applications Professor John Elgin
M1P1 Analysis 1 Professor Gordon D. James
M1P2 Linear Algebra Professor Aitkins
M1S Probability and Statistics 1 Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith

First year project: Pursuit problems (using Mathematica programming) supervision by Professor John Elgin

Admissions interview and generous reduced offer of CCC made by Dr Linda White (whose father coincidentally had attended Ilford county school!)

 

1996

A levels,  Ilford County High Grammar School.

Pure Mathematics (A), Mechanics (A), Chemistry (A), AS Statistics and Decision Mathematics (C).

 

Certificate: click here

Teachers: Mrs B. A Josse (Pure), Mrs C. Hitchcock (Mechanics), Mr Smithers (Mechanics), Mr Raymond E. Vincent (Chemistry)

Books: Bostock and Chandler (Mathematics and Futher Mathematics, STEP), Eileen Ramsden (Chemistry) ,

J. Crawshaw and Chambers (A concise course in A'level statistics).

 

1994

GCSEs,  Loxford High School. 

Double Science  2×(A*) , Mathematics [Year 10, 1993]  (A), Craft, design and technology  (A), Geography  (A),

Business and Information Studies  2×(A), English Literature  (A), English Language  (B), Physical Education  (B)  and  French  (B).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awards

 

1999

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) sponsorship for PhD research work.

 

1999

IMA prize awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for outstanding performance in the final year examinations at Imperial College.

 

1996

Rigby prize for Mathematics awarded at sixth form.

 

1994-95

Silver and bronze certificates in the National Mathematics Challenge.

 

1992

Loxford High School chess champion.

 

1991

Loxford High School chess runner up.