Robert MacKay

Robert Sinclair MacKay (born July 4, 1956 in Carshalton , Surrey ) is a British mathematician who studies dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems. He is a professor at the University of Warwick .

Mackay went to school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and studied mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge with a bachelor's degree in 1977 (and graduation from Part 3 of Tripos 1978 with honors) and was trained in 1982 at the plasma physics laboratory of Princeton University with John Greene and Martin Kruskal do their PhD in astrophysics (Renormalization in area-preserving maps). As a post-doctoral student, he was at Queen Mary College, University of London (with Ian C. Percival ), IHES (1983/84 as visiting professor) and the University of Warwick. In 1988 he became a Lecturer , 1990 Reader and 1993 Professor in Warwick. In 1994/95 he conducted research for the CNRS and was visiting professor at the University of Dijon. From 1995 he was Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the DAMTP at Cambridge University and Director of the Nonlinear Center and Fellow of Trinity College. In 2000 he became Professor of Mathematics in Warwick and Director of Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research.

In 2010/11 he was visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels.

Mackay is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2000), whose Wolfson Research Merit Award he received in 2012. In 1994 he received the Whitehead Prize and in 2015 the Senior Whitehead Prize . He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications , of which he was President in 2012/13.

Fonts

• with JM Greene, RS MacKay, F. Vivaldi, MJ Feigenbaum : Universal behavior in families of area preserving maps, Physica D 3, 1981, pp. 468-486
• A renormalization approach to invariant circles in area preserving maps, Physica D 7, 1983, pp. 283-300
• with JD Meiss: Linear stability of periodic orbits in Lagrangian systems, Phys. Lett. A 98, 1983, pp. 92-94
• with JD Meiss, IC Percival, Stochasticity and Transport in Hamiltonian systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1984, pp. 697-700
• with JD Meiss, IC Perciva: Transport in Hamiltonian systems, Physica D 13, 1984, pp. 55-81
• with IC Percival: Converse KAM: theory and practice, Comm. Math. Phys., 98, 1985, 469-512
• Editor with JD Meis: Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems: a reprint selection, Bristol: Adam Hilger 1987
• Renormalization in area-preserving maps, World Scientific 1993
• with RC Ball, VN Kolokotsov (Ed.): Complexity Science: The Warwick Master´s Course, LMS Lecture Notes 408, Cambridge University Press 2013

Web links

• Homepage University of Warwick