Integrable systems is a branch of mathematics which has a long history but first came to prominance in the mid 1960's with the (mathematical) discovery of the soliton by Kruskal and Zabusky in connection with a dispersive shallow water wave problem. Since then this field has come to embrace many different aspects of mathematical physics. In this department there is currently a group of six academic staff working on a range of different problems in this area. Details of these are given below.
Every four years we organise a conference, under the acronym ISLAND, concentrating on one or more aspects of integrable systems. The next meeting is ISLAND III in 2007.
We are part of the UK-wide network "Classical and Quantum Integrability", funded by the London Mathematical Society.
Current research students
Sarah Croke, James Ferguson, Susan MacFarlane, Craig Sooman.
Details of the work of some former students is described here.