Imperial College London

DrRoyJacobs

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Mathematics

Emeritus Reader
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 8487r.jacobs Website

 
 
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Location

 

6M19Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

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.