Prof Colin Please

Phone
023-80592332 (+ 44 23 80592332 for international)
Email
cpp@maths.soton.ac.uk
Fax
023-80595147
Address
Faculty of Mathematical Studies
University of Southampton
Southampton
England SO17 1BJ
Office
Building 54 (Mathematics), room 6007 (see a map of the campus here).

For your amusement:
See a video of some unicycling here.
Teaching
Some courses I teach at Southampton University (most of these are accessible through the local Blackboard system)
  • MATH1020 Caluclus and Differential Equations
  • MATH2021 Mathematics for Electronic and Electrical Engineeers
  • MATH3008 Applications of Differential Equations
  • MATH6097 Advanced Differential Equations
    • Research Interests
    Mathematical modelling of industrial problems using partial differential equations.
    Areas include:
    Growth and dynamics of solid tumours
    Baking of bread products
    Food processing and sterilization by heat exchangers
    Blasting of rock in mines
    Dispersion of pollution in the atmosphere and estuaries
    Electrical behaviour of semiconductor devices
    Rechargable battery behaviour.
    Vibration of elastic surfaces.
    Asymptotic analysis of PDE's particularly nonlinear diffusion equations.


    Research details

     You can find more details about my research, my publications, and other university activities here.
    A list of recent publications can be found here. Or you can look on the University of Southampton's e-print server (which is not as comprehensive yet but has more links to papers) here
    Recent overseas visitors who I have spent time here enjoying the research atmosphere at Southampton include
    Dr Mark McGuinness from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
    Dr Neville Fowkes from University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
    Dr Graeme Pettet from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Brisbane Australia
    Dr Troy Farrell from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Brisbane Australia (Troy - sorry this link is broken!)
    Details of a recent EPSRC funded project on the heat flow and fluid flow in Scraped-surface Heat-Exchangers is available here.


    Here are some links to Mathematical Modelling meetings involving applied mathematicians and industrialists
    1. ESGI2005 - north to Manchester for a super gathering.
    2. ESGI2004 - "back to its roots" - a fantastic Oxford meeting.
    3. ESGI2003 - a wonderfully sunny meeting in Bristol.
    4. ESGI2002 - a great meeting in Lancaster.
    5. ESGI2001 - an outstanding meeting in wonderful Keele.
    6. ESGI2000 - applied maths in beautiful Sheffield.
    7. ESGI99 - fun and maths in Edinburgh.
    8. ESGI98 - a dynamic meeting held in Southampton.
    9. ESGI97 - the UK meeting held in Bath
    10. MPI06 - The first MPI meeting at Olin Engineeering College, Mass.
    11. GSMM2005 - A graduate training camp at RPI in preparation for MPI05 - the MPI meeting at WPI in Worcester Mass.
    12. MPI03 - The first MPI meeting at WPI in Worcester Mass.
    13. MPI02 - A further great meeting at RPI in Albany NY.
    14. MPI01 - An excellent meeting at RPI in Albany NY.
    15. MPI00 - A great meeting in Newark, Delaware.
    16. MPI99 - The first MPI meeting in Newark, Delaware.
    17. PIMSIPS - applying mathematics to industry in Canada
    18. GIMMC - having fun at graduate camps preparing for the PIMSIPS
    19. MISG - industry and mathematics in beautiful Adelaide.
    20. MMSG 2005 - Study Groups meet medical problems in Oxford
    21. MMSG 2002 - Medical study group problems in Nottingham
    22. MMSG 2001 - More medical study group problems in Nottingham
    23. MMSG 2000 - Study Groups meet medical problems in Nottingham
    24. Official Study group website - A list of all Study groups in UK, USA, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland China, India,..... with links to some problems.
      25. Return to Mathematics Faculty Home Page
      Last update April 13, 2005.