DrRoy Jacobs
Emeritus Reader
Department of Mathematics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Emeritus ReaderDepartment of Mathematics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 8487 (Work)
- 6M19, Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Overview
Complex systems display a wide variety of nonlinear dynamics including chaotic behaviour and various types of self-organisation, such as ordering phenomena. Roy's main interest is in understanding how these phenomena arise from the underlying nonlinearity. Specific systems studied are nonlinear earthquake models and models of glassy systems. He is also interested in first-order phase transitions such as three-dimensional melting.
 
Complex systems display a wide variety of nonlinear dynamics including chaotic behaviour and various types of self-organisation, such as ordering phenomena. Roy's main interest is in understanding how these phenomena arise from the underlying nonlinearity. Specific systems studied are nonlinear earthquake models and models of glassy systems. He is also interested in first-order phase transitions such as three-dimensional melting.