• Professor of Applied Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath

  

  
  
• Director of Knowledge Exchange for Bath Institute for Mathematical Innovation (IMI)

  

  
  
• Director of the Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics
  
  
• Gresham Professor of Geometry Gresham College

  

  
  
• Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

  

Postal Address:

Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath
BA2 7AY
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0)1225 386241
Fax: +44 (0)1225 386492

E-mail Address: mascjb@bath.ac.uk

Here is my Curriculum Vitae

Publications and talks

Research Interests

• Adaptive moving mesh methods , with applications in meteorology and modelling climate
  
  
  
  
• Data assimilation methods, with applications in meteorology and climate
• The mathematics of machine learning
• Nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, especially problems with singularities.
• Non-smooth dynamical systems (with applications to climate and machine learning) see my book on Piecewise-smooth Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications,

  

• Industrial and interdisciplinary applied mathematics
• Geometric integration and its applications.
• Optimal transport methods (with applications to mesh generation, propagation and machine learning)
• Numerical weather and climate prediction
  
  
  
  
• Power electronics
• Inverse problems including saving the whales

• Raising the roof . NERC PhD. Matt Griffith, Nick Mitchell, Met Office
• Non-smooth models for climate Botswana PhD Kgomotso Susan Morupisi
• Indoor LTE and WiFi propagation ICASE PhD. Hayley Wragg, Keith Briggs (BT)
• Inverse problems in EEG Shaerdan Shataer
• Surge in turbochargers Samba/IAAPS PhD. Kate Powers, Chris Brace, Paul Milewski, Colin
• Mitigation zones for seismic surveys and marine animals KTP/PhD Guillermo Jimenez Arranz, Phillipe Blondel, SEICHE
• Adaptive mesh methods for the shallow water equations Simone Appela, Tristan Pryer, Met Office
• Machine learning for CME predications Chinese PhD Scholarship, Tina Zhou, Tom Haines, Met Office
• Impact of climate change on cocoa farming Samba PhD. Tosin Babasola, CRIN
• Inverse problems in ocean acoustics NPL funded PhD, Gianluca Audone, Matt Nunes, Phillipe Blondel, NPL

• MIVOR: Impact of climate change on the National Grid NGC funded. Beate Erhardt, Mixhong ??, Ghenghong Gu, NGC
• Machine learning for hip fracture detection Arthritis Society, Beate Erhardt, Richie Gill
• Moving meshes on the sphere with applications to weather prediction NERC
• Along with Victor Galaktionov and Johannes Zimmer I was coordinator of the Bath Node of the FIRST (Fronts and Interfaces in Science and Technology) Marie Curie training network. See FIRST Network for more information about the project, workshops and positions.

Knowledge Exchange:

• I am a founder member of the Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences V-KEMS together with the INI, the ICMS, the KTN and a number of other universities.
  
  See the press release and presentation about the work of V-KEMS.
  
  V-KEMS provides a variety of support mechanisms for on-line knowledge exchange. Much of this is targeted to address the problems brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. V-KEMS works closely with the Royal Society RAMP programme, as well as SPI-M, DfE and UUK.
• I am a leading supporter of (Virtual) Study Groups (VSGs) as a hugely effective way of solving problems using (focused teams of) mathematicians, of motivating mathematicians to work on real life problems, and of learning new mathematics from applications. Here is an image of a VSG in action
  
  
  
  
• I am part of the management team for the Bath MSc in Modern Applications of mathematics. Nearly all of the students on this course do a 3 month project with industry. I coordinate these projects which are an excellent way for academics to engage with industry.
• I run the AIMS series of seminars in applied and interdisciplinary mathematics.
• I contributed to, and strongly support the Bond Review on the The Era of Mathematics and serve on a number of working groups which are implementing its recomendations.
• I am on the International Advisory Committee of the EPSRC/LWEC CliMathNet network ,

  

  which brings together mathematicians, climate scientists and policy makers interested in the science and the impact of climate change.

Education and Public Engagement Interests:

Please get in touch if you would like me to give you a talk.

• Director of the Bath Taps Into Science Festival . If you want to have a look at Bath Taps in action here is a video .
• SIAM Education Committee
• Co-author of the Vorderman Report on the current state and future of Maths Education in the UK
• Director of the Bath series of Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses .
  My book .Mathematics Galore co-authored with Chris Sangwin, is a collection of these classes. See the review in Plus Maths.

  

• I am the former chair, and now serve on the Risk and Compliance Committee of the United Kingdom Maths Trust (UKMT) which coordinates maths competitions across the UK. The UKMT works with 80% of the schools in the UK, and over 700,000 young people per year take part in its activities.

  

• I was the Vice-President for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) responsible for Communications and Outreach and also for the 50th Birthday celebrations in 2014. As part of this I co-edited the book '50 Visions of Mathematics' which has 50 popular maths articles and 50 images of maths. It also has various proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem in different literary styles. (I was the C in Sam Parc)

  

• I contribute to the IMA Maths Matters series of short, punchy, articles on the impact of mathematics, and also to the IMA Maths Careers website.
• In 2010 I was director of the exhibit in the Royal Society Summer Exhibition called

  

  which gave a hands on experience of the way that maths helps us understand the complexities in the world, from weather forecasting and chaos to energy harvesting and from bouncing balls and sand to flocks and crowds. If you are mad enough to want to run such an exhibition yourself then have a look at the user guide A user guide to running a Royal Society Summer Exhibition.

Teaching

• MA10236 Mathematical methods 1B
• MA30241 Communicating maths

• Can We Talk Maths in Public
  

• Confessions of an industrial mathematician
  How to use maths from industry to illuminate teaching in the classroom. A talk for teachers and lecturers presented at BCME (April 2010))
• How much maths is too much maths? (IMA, June 2010).
  How much maths can you get away with when you give a popular maths talk? More than you might imagine, but don't blow your audience away!
• Presenting exciting maths to children and young people (IMA, June 2010).
  A series of ideas and resources for making maths fun for young people.
• Presented at the BAMC
• The state of play in public engagement in Maths
  Maths Today, 2009

Communicating Mathematics

Research talks:

Bath Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics and the Bath Institute for Complex Systems, BICS:

MSC in Modern Applications of mathematics:

Public talks, lectures and workshops:

Mathematics Galore:

Bath Taps Into Science:

Posters and articles:

Undergraduate Course Material:

MSc Course Material:

Facts about hamsters

Quotes:

• I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
• Call that a band, I've seen better bands on a cigar.
• "Captain, for me to save our lives I have to perform actions which violate several known laws of physics and require me to develop a completely new theoretical understanding of five-dimensional hyperspace, all in under 5 seconds", " Do it Spock!"
• If you think that you know all the answers, then you are not asking the right questions
• Money cannot buy you happiness. But it can buy you marshmallows.
• He digs deepest who deepest digs.
• There is no I in TEAM. There is also no I in Hamster. However there is an I in Gerbil and two Is in Guinea Pig
• All known mathematics has already been discovered by an obscure Russian working in the late 1940's
• If all else fails, hug your teddy.