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About me

I am an RCUK Academic Fellow / Lecturer based in the Condensed Matter research group➚ within the School of Physics and Astronomy➚, Edinburgh University➚. I research➚ models and theories for the dynamics of far-from-equilibrium physical systems and of complex interacting agent systems. I am also associated➚ with various other research groups across the university and beyond.

Visitors to the University may find me in Room 2505 of the James Clerk Maxwell Building on the King’s Buildings campus. Contact details are at the foot of the page.

New Zealand English

If you’re here because of media interest at the start of 2008 in our work on modelling the formation of the New Zealand English language dialect, do please read this page of additional information.

Stuff going on right now

  1. •This website, despite my best intentions, is getting hideously out-of-date. A major overhaul is on my to-do list. There’s still some semi-relevant stuff lying around, and I do my best to keep my publications list up to date, which is probably the best way to keep track of what I’m up to.

  2. •Latest published papers... Random copying in space➚, How do communication systems emerge?➚ (with Thom Scott-Philips, Andy Gardner and Stu West), Noise-induced dynamical transition in systems with symmetric absorbing states➚ (with Dom Russell). Lots of great stuff on its way.

  3. •Last year I spent most of July at the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Summer Institute in Boulder teaching some linguistics students how to program computers and simulate language change. In return, I learnt some sociolinguistics.

  4. •I will be lecturing on Statistical Mechanics at the 2012 Physics by the Sea summer school (nee Physics by the Lake; change in name is due to a change of venue, not global warming). The school is strongly recommended to 1st year PhD students of condensed matter theory and related areas.

  5. •If I look vaguely familiar, you may have seen me giving talks at the 2011 European Conference on Complex Systems, or at Manchester or Durham universities.

write Dr Richard Blythe, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3HZ, UK

email r.a.blythe [at] ed.ac.uk · phone +44 131 650 5105 · fax +44 131 650 5209