Dr James Christian
Research Interests | Click on the link to my ORCID page for details... ∮ ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING complex domains | diffraction integrals | boundary integral equations | boundary element methods ∮ MATHEMATICAL FLUID DYNAMICS Eulerlets | Oseenlets | boundary integral formulations ∮ GENERAL RELATIVITY further development and applications of MOND ∮ DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS maps & flows | fractal basin boundaries | chaotic scattering | Julia sets | entropy ∮ DISCRETE NONLINEAR EQUATIONS discrete NLS | Ablowitz-Ladik | Salerno | spontaneous pattern formation | ring cavities | counterpropagating waves ∮ NONLINEAR WAVES solitons | similaritons | rogue waves | vector solitons | pseudorelativistic Ginzburg-Landau equations ∮ UNSTABLE RESONATORS applications of 2D virtual source theory | fractal feedback-mirror boundary conditions |
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Teaching and Learning | BSc Physics / BSc Mathematics Current lecture courses (80 credits taught): PHYSICS LABORATORY 3 (Physics, Level 6, 20/20 credits), QUANTUM PHYSICS (Physics, Level 5, 10/20 credits), WAVES & OPTICS (Physics, Level 5, 10/20 credits), DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (Mathematics, Level 5, 20/20 credits), MECHANICS & VECTOR CALCULUS (Mathematics, Level 4, (20/20 credits). Supervisor for final-year undergraduate (Physics and Mathematics BSc), Masters (MSc/MRes/MPhil), and PhD projects. Previous lecture courses (BSc & MPhys): ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS (Level 7, 2021–2024), PHOTONICS & NANOTECHNOLOGY (Level 6, 2013–2025), THEORETICAL PHYSICS (Level 6, 2014–2022), RELATIVITY (Level 6, 2009–2014), THEORETICAL PHYSICS II (Level 6, 2006–2013), CLASSICAL & QUANTUM WAVES (Level 5, 2017-2021), COMPUTER SIMULATION (Level 5, 2008–2013), FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS C (Level 4, 2017–2019), MATHS & COMPUTING (Level 4, 2011–2017), FOUNDATION IT & STUDY SKILLS (Level 3, 2021–2023). |