Applied Mathematics
The Applied Mathematics Unit has a long-standing international reputation for its research. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise 25% of our activity was rated as internationally World-Leading (4*). This is the largest proportion outside of Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick. This research activity is led by thirteen professors with expertise in a range of topics, including Combustion Theory and Bushfires (Dold); Computational Mechanics and Biomechanics (Heil); Granular Flow (Gray); Dynamical Systems (Broomhead, Glendinning); Financial Mathematics (Duck, Fedotov); High Speed Fluid Dynamics (Gajjar); Inverse Problems (Lionheart); Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (Dongarra, Higham, Silvester) and Waves (Abrahams).
Active Research Areas (in addition to those in menu on the left)
- Combustion Theory
- Dynamical Systems and Analysis
- Fluid Dynamics
- Granular Materials
- Inverse Problems
- Mathematical Biology
- Scientific Computing
- Waves
RAE2008 highlights
- An active research group of 31 permanent staff working with 14 postdoctoral researchers, 42 PhD research students and 49 MSc students. The MAGIC doctoral student training network is being coordinated by Manchester and Sheffield.
- Significant success in the award of EPSRC Fellowships including five Advanced Fellows (Fielding, Gray, Heil, Juel and Mazzocco) and three Postdoctoral Fellows (Ford, Lombardo and Parnell) awarded in the census period.
- More than 7.6M pounds awarded over the census period, including 1.75M for the CICADA initiative.
- Three of our researchers have been designated Highly Cited Researchers at ISIHighlyCited.com: Dongarra, Hammarling and Higham.
Applied Mathematics at Manchester has a strong tradition for research excellence, with past leadership provided by Sir Horace Lamb FRS, Sydney Chapman FRS, Edward Milne FRS, Douglas Hartree FRS, Sydney Goldstein FRS, Sir James Lighthill FRS, Fritz Ursell FRS and Robin Bullough. BAMC'08 was the fiftieth anniversary of the first British Theoretical Mechanics Colloquium which was held in Manchester in 1959.