Staff profile

Qualifications

• MSc, DipEd(Utrecht), PhD(Leiden).

Supervision

• Dinh Tran.

Professional involvement

• Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow (2008-2013).
• Fellow Institute of Physics.

Research interests

• My main research interests are in geometric numerical integration, dynamical systems, and integrable systems.

  Current members of the research group in scientific computation and dynamical systems are David McLaren, Will Wright, Peter van der Kamp, Sarah Lobb, Chris Ormerod and Richard Norton

  Former members of our research group include Volker Grimm, Per Christian Moan, Lennaert van Veen, Priscilla Tse, Jitse Niesen, Graham Byrnes, Ramajayam Sahadevan, Chris Dyt, Kie Van Ivanky Saputra, Dion O'Neale, Omar Rojas, Dmitry Demskoi, Lina Song, Yajuan Sun, Dinh Tran and James Atkinson.

  I am chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, which has a major node at La Trobe University.

Recent publications and presentations

 

• D.T. Tran, P.H. van der Kamp and and G.R.W. Quispel, 'Involutivity of integrals of sine-Gordon, modified KdV and potential KdV maps' (PDF 190KB), J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011), 295206, 13pp.
• P.H. van der Kamp and G.R.W. Quispel, 'The staircase method: integrals for periodic reductions of integrable lattice equations' (PDF 747KB), J. Phy. A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010), 34pp, 465207, DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/43/46/465207.
• K.V.I. Saputra, L. van Veen and G.R.W. Quispel, 'The saddle-node-transcritical bifurcation in a population model with constant rate harvesting' (PDF 356KB), DCDS-B14, (2010) 233-250.
• E. Celledoni, R. I. McLachlan, B. Owren and G. R. W. Quispel 'Energy-Preserving Integrators and the Structure of B-series' (PDF 399KB), Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 10, (2010), 673-693, DOI: 10.1007/s10208-010-9073-1.
• D.T. Tran, P.H. van der Kamp and G.R.W. Quispel, 'Sufficient number of integrals for the pth order Lyness equation' (PDF 202KB), J.Phys.A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010), 302001.
• K.V.I. Saputra, G.R.W. Quispel and L. van Veen,'An integrating factor matrix method to find first integrals' (PDF 178KB), J.Phys.A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010), 225207.
• K.V.I. Saputra, G.R.W. Quispel and L. van Veen,'An integrating factor matrix method to find first integrals' (PDF 178KB) , J.Phys.A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010), 225207.
• Reinout Quispel featured in 'The Mathematicians' Episode 5 (MP3 audio 15MB) of the BBC radio series 'The Tribes of Science'. In this episode Peter Curran met mathematicians visiting the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics in Cambridge. The episode was broadcast on Sunday, 6 Sep 2009, 14:45 on BBC Radio 4.