nania.other.people

Other researchers associated with NANIA

Simon Bates

Simon is found in the School of Physics and the University of Edinburgh and his research interests are the application of modern computational techniques to investigate the structure and properties of materials on the atomic scale. He is also interested in the development of Java applets to demonstrate physical problems for teaching purposes and helped develop the limited altruism example on these pages.

Recent articles of interest include:

• S. Bates and S. Wilson, Interactive Physics. A virtual library of simulations for use in Physics undergraduate teaching, New directions in the teaching of physical sciences, 1, (2000) here

Richard Blythe

Richard came back to School of Physics and the University of Edinburgh from Manchester. He is a Royal Society and SUPA fellow working on Evolution of language with William Croft and keeps us straight on matter statistical mechanical

Mike Cates

Mike Cates holds a chair in Natural Philosophy in the School of Physics at the University of Edinburgh and has a wide range of research interests.

Recent articles of interest include:

• J. Coe, Y. Mao, and M. Cates, Solvable senescence model showing a mortality plateau, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 288103 (2003).
• KN Pham, AM Puertas, J Bergenholtz and M Cates. Multiple glassy states in a simple model system Science 296 (5565): 104-106 (2002).

See also https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/
Email: mec _at_ ph.ed.ac.uk

William Croft

Bill Croft holds a chair in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Manchester and is interested in the evolution of language and historical linguistics and many other subjects quoted on his web page: typology, semantics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, language change.

See also http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/WAC/
Email: croft _at_ casbs.stanford.edu

Mervyn Freeman

Mervyn Freeman works for the British Antarctic Survey and his research interests include the study of the Aurora and the use of concepts from information theory applied to natural data.

Recent articles of interest include:

• R.W.Clarke, M.P.Freeman and N.W.Watkins, Application of computational mechanics to the analysis of natural data: an example in geomagnetism , Physical Review E, 67, 016203 (2003)
• M. Freeman and N. Watkins, The Heavens in a pile of sand ... , Science, 298, 979-980 (2002)

See also http://www.bas.ac.uk/
Email: mpf _at_ bas.ac.uk

Ralph Lorenz

Ralph Lorenz works in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona and space probes feature heavily in his research. However, Ralph also has a very wide interest in complex systems such as planetary climate and geomorphology.

Recent articles of interest include:

• R. Lorenz, Full steam ahead - probably, Science, 299, 837, 2003
• R. Lorenz, The Weather on Titan, Science, 290, 467, 2000

See also http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/
Email: rlorenz _at_ lpl.arizona.edu

Marcel van Oijen

Marcel van Oijen works at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology near Edinburgh and his research intersts include the modelling of complex biological systems.

Recent articles of interest include:

• T. Lenton and M. van Oijen, Gaia as a complex adaptive system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 357(1421): 683-695, (2002).
• J. Wolf and M. van Oijen, Modelling the dependence of European potato yields on changes in climate and CO2, AGR Forest.Meteorol 112 (3-4): 217-231 2002

See also http://www.ceh.ac.uk/
Email: mvano _at_ ceh.ac.uk

Nick Watkins

Nick Watkins works at the British Antarctic Survey...

Recent articles of interest include:

• NW Watkins, S. C. Chapman, and G. Rowlands, Universal Fluctuations in Correlated Systems , Phys Rev Lett, 89, 208901 (2002)
• NW Watkins, Scaling in the space climatology of the auroral indices: Is SOC the only possible description?, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 9, 389-397 (2002)

See also http://www.bas.ac.uk/
Email: nww _at_ bas.ac.uk

Kevin Stratford

Formerly maintained the NANIA web pages Now works for Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre and is interested in computational fluid dynamics on scales from small to large.

See also http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~kevin/
Email: kevin _at_ epcc.ed.ac.uk