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Professor Alastair M. Rucklidge

Professor Alastair M. Rucklidge

  • Position: Professor
  • Areas of expertise: pattern formation; mode interactions; quasipatterns; soft matter quasicrystals; spatio-temporal chaos; nonlinear and chaotic dynamics; heteroclinic networks.
  • Email: A.M.Rucklidge@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 5161
  • Location: Mathematics Satellite 10.25 E C Stoner
  • Website: arXiv | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID | White Rose

Research interests

Regular patterns are ubiquitous in nature, and their formation and stability is governed by the intricate interactions of symmetry, dynamics and nonlinearity. My research aims to understand how the nonlinear interaction of waves in different directions leads to the formation of (for example) quasipatterns in Faraday waves and quasicrystals in soft matter, and of spatio-temporal chaos in reaction-diffusion systems. I am interested in spirals, found for example in models of cyclic competition (Rock-Paper-Scissors), and their stability. My work ranges from quantitative explanations of fluid dynamics experiments, through developing new models for understanding mode interactions and localised patterns, to new ideas on heteroclinic bifurcations and networks.

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<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

  • PhD (Cantab)
  • SM (MIT)
  • BASc (Toronto)

Professional memberships

  • London Mathematical Society
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Royal Astronomical Society

Research groups and institutes

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Applied Nonlinear Dynamics

Current postgraduate researchers

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>
Projects
    <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/252-pattern-formation-(applied-nonlinear-dynamics)">Pattern Formation (Applied Nonlinear Dynamics)</a></li>