Staff profile

Qualifications

• MSc, DipEd(Utrecht), PhD(Leiden).

Supervision

• Dinh Tran, Omar Rojas.

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.

  Other current members of the research group in scientific computation and dynamical systems are David McLaren, Will Wright, Dion O'Neale, Peter van der Kamp, Omar Rojas and Dinh Tran.

  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

• E. Celledoni, D. McLaren, R. I. McLachlan, B. Owren, G.R. Quispel and W. Wright, 'Energy-preserving methods and B-series', in: 21st Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, T. Kvamsdal et al (Eds.), CIMNE 2008.
• D.I McLaren and G.R.W. Quispel, 'Bootstrapping discrete-gradient integral-preserving integrators to fourth order', in: M. Daniel, S. Rajasekar (Eds.), Nonlinear Dynamics, Narosa Publishing House 2009, pp 157-171.
• R.I McLachlan, G.R.W. Quispel and P.S.P. Tse, Linearization-preserving self-adjoint and symplectic integrators, BIT 49 (2009) 177 - 197.
• Dinh T. Tran, Peter H. van der Kamp and G.R.W. Quispel, Closed-form expressions for integrals of traveling wave reductions of integrable lattice equations, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 225201.
• Elena Celledoni, Robert I. McLachlan, David I. McLaren, Brynjulf Owren, G. Reinout W. Quispel, and William M. Wright, Energy-preserving Runge-Kutta methods, ESAIM: M2AN 43 (2009), 645-649.
• 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.