Sir John Ball FRS

 

Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy

 

Director, Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDE

 

Fellow of The Queen's College

 

 

Address: Mathematical Institute,

24-29 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LB,  U.K. 

 

Office: Room RI1.19 Gibson Building

Tel: +44 (1865) 615110 (direct)

Tel: +44 (1865) 615127 (secretary)

Fax: +44 (1865) 615101 

Email: ball@maths.ox.ac.uk 


Past President and Member of Executive Committee, International Mathematical Union.

Chair of IMU Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC)

Chair of Isaac Newton Institute Scientific Steering Committee

President London Mathematical Society

 

Research Interests

John Ball's main research areas lie in  the calculus of variations, nonlinear partial differential equations, infinite-dimensional dynamical systems and their applications to nonlinear mechanics. In solid mechanics, he is especially interested in the mathematics of microstructure arising from phase transformations in solids, using models based on nonlinear elasticity, where the problem of predicting microstructure morphology is related to deep unsolved questions of the multi-dimensional calculus of variations such as understanding quasiconvexity. A more recent research interest is in the mathematics of liquid crystals.

 

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  26-September-2008
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