Prof. Christian Beck Address : School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS, UK Room Number: 114 Telephone: +44 20 7882 3286 E-Mail: c.beck@qmul.ac.uk FAX: +44 20 8981 9587

Research :

• main interests
  ---Complex Systems ---Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaotic Behaviour ---Statistical Mechanics ---Dark Energy
  --- Coupled Map Lattices and Spatio-Temporal Chaos
  ---Skew Products
  ---Thermodynamic Formalism of Dynamical Systems
  --- Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  --- Superstatistics
  --- Brownian motion, Langevin processes, nonequilibrium situations
  --- Fully Developed Turbulence
  ---Stochastic and Chaotic Quantization
  --- Chaotic scalar fields, dynamical models of vacuum fluctuations
  --- Possible measurable effects of dark energy in superconductors
  
• other interests
  ---Roundoff in Dynamical Systems
  ---Mathematical Finance

  Information for prospective PhD students

  Current PhD students:
  Wook Jae Lee
  Muhammad Maher

  Current postdoc:
  Erik Van der Straeten

Publications and Preprints :

Publications and preprints 2001-2009
Complete list of publications

My 1st book (with F. Schloegl, Cambridge University Press, 1993)
(paperback edition 1995)

My 2nd book (World Scientific, 2002)


Here you can see it in more detail.
This has appeared in the Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics of World Scientific.

A new book of which I am a co-editor (World Scientific, 2005)

Editorial Membership :

I am an Advisory Editor of
PHYSICA A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.



If you like to submit a manuscript, please submit on the Elsevier website,
choose C. Tsallis as a main editor and add a comment that you want me (as an advisory editor) to handle your paper.

Teaching :

Office hours: Tue 1-2pm, Fri 1-2.

This year I will be teaching the 3rd year course
Further Topics in Mathematical Finance (MTH6120)
and a new LTCC course `Statistical Mechanics'.

Other activities :

• List of conferences and workshops where I was an invited speaker
• Some links to conferences and workshops where you may have met me recently:

  Anomalous Distributions, Nonlinear Dynamics and Nonextensivity, Santa Fe (Nov. 2002)
  Symposium of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, April 2003
  NEXT 2003, Italy, September 2003
  Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, Salvador, Brazil, October 2003
  Pattern Formation, KITP Santa Barbara, October -- November 2003
  Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics, Udine (Sept. 2004)
  Complexity, Metastability, and Nonextensivity (Erice, Sicily, 20-26 July 2004)
  International Workshop on Complexity and Nonextensivity, Kyoto (March 2005)
  Interdisciplinary Aspects of Turbulence, Tegernsee (April 2005)
  News, Expextations and Trends in Statistical Physics, Crete (August 2005)
  Astrophysics as Interdisciplinary Science, Tokyo (September 2005)
  Anomalous Transport, Bad Honnef (July 2006)
  Summer School and Workshop on Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics, ICTP Trieste (August 2006)
  The Logic of Nature, Complexity and New Physics, Erice (September 2006)
  Outstanding questions for the standard cosmological model, Imperial College London (March 2007)
  Origins of dark energy, Hamilton (May 2007)
  Complexity, Metastability, and Nonextensivity, Catania (July 2007)
  Sigma-Phi Conference on Statistical Physics, Crete (July 2008)
  Greek-Turkish Conference on Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Rhodos/Marmaris (September 2008)
  NEXT2008, Brazil (October 2008)
  Stochastics, Nonlinearity and Complexity, Advanced CISM school, Udine, Italy (July 2009)
  XI Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, Buzios, Brazil (October 2009)

• I was organizer (together with Carl Dettmann, Bristol, and Mark Pollicott, Warwick)
  of the following international symposium:
  

  Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Durham, 3-13 July 2006
  (Durham Cathedral)

Personal :

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