Marc Audet came to Oxford as a postdoc, working in OCIAM and in Desmond McConnell's group in Earth Sciences on problems of compaction in sedimentary basins. Subsequently, he migrated full time to Earth Sciences as a postdoc with Tony Watts, and is now a consultant in Connecticut.
Trond Bergstrom was a scientist at Elkem in Norway. He attended the study group in Oxford in 1987, and we solved his problem of two phase segregation in electrode manufacture. A paper appeared in 1989.
Mike Booty was a student with John Gibbon when my name appeared on a 1982 paper on an extension of the stuff on the complex Lorenz equations. I was at M.I.T. at the time, and didn't meet Mike till much later, when he had a postdoc at Northwestern, and was working (I think) in combustion. Not altogether sure where he is now.
Mark Clements was a postdoc with Peter Fleming at Bristol. I think he has now gone back to his native New Zealand.
Ken Coleman was a biochemistry student at Triinity College Dublin when I was there, and we would meet and drink guinness in the Lincoln Inn. We started working on modelling toxin production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, and made some headway before we both left. Unbelievably, Ken turned up again in Boston, I think in an Irish bar, having moved to the Harvard Medical School. We eventually produced a paper in 1984. I've no idea where he is now.
Steven Cowley is currently on the faculty at DAMTP, Cambridge.
Jeff Dewynne was a postdoc in OCIAM after leaving Australia. He then became a lecturer at the University of Southampton in a thriving applied mathematics group. A polymath and renegade football supporter, he is particularly involved in mathematical finance, and is now back in Oxford in that guise.
Peter Fleming is a professor in the Department of Child Health at St. Michael's Hospital at the University of Bristol.
Ian Frigaard did the M.Sc in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis before proceeding to a doctorate. He then took a postdoctoral position in the ECMI centre at the University of Linz, Austria.
John Gibbon was appointed a lecturer at University College Dublin about the time I went to Trinity College as a postdoc. He shared an office with Mark McGuinness (see below) and the three of us worked on problems arising from weakly nonlinear evolution equations. John discovered that some of these were closely related to the Lorenz equations, and a complex form of these provided some nonlinear fodder for us. He left UCD about 1980 to go to Imperial College, where he remains, now as Professor. For the last years, he has been interested in inertial manifolds and their application to the Navier-Stokes equations. He is a mean centre half.
Pat Hagan was a doctoral student with Don Cohen at CalTech. He then worked in the applied math research group at Exxon, and then in the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where I visited him twice. He is now working for a bank (Nomura) in New York.
Sam Howison has been at Oxford for most of his professional career, and is currently University lecturer and Fellow of Christ Church. He specialises in free boundary problems, and more recently, mathematical finance.
Paul Johnson is a consultant clinical physiologist in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Oxford University.
Bill Krantz was a chemical engineer at the University of Colorado, and now at the University of Cincinnati, with an interest in environmental science, as well as process engineering. He is particularly in periglacial processes, such as the formation of patterned ground in permafrost regions, and when he visited Oxford around 1990, we worked, tooth and nail, on the Miller model of secondary frost heave. The principal paper was published in SIAM in 1994, and formed the building block for Chris Noon's thesis.
Guy Kember did his doctorate with John Blackwell at the University of Western Ontario, on heat transfer problems. He then worked for five years at Beak Consultants, an environmental consultancy, during which time he visited OCIAM frequently. Since 1993 he has been Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Nova Scotia in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His main research interests are the analysis of time series, particularly medical time series, using methods on nonlinear dynamics. He plays football under duress, and drinks guinness in admirable quantities.
Dale Larson did his doctorate with Chuck Lange at UCLA on nonlinear diffusion. He visited Jim Murray as a postdoc at Oxford in 1976, and brought with him a copy of Nye's paper on kinematic waves on glaciers from 1960. It was this which started my involvement in glaciology. Dale and I eventually wrote four papers arising out of this work together. He worked in various consultancies in Los Angeles, and recently took early retirement from his position as research mathematician at Chevron Oil in San Francisco.
Mark Lewis was a graduate student at Oxford, in the Centre for Mathematical Biology.
Mark McGuinness was a postdoc at University College Dublin in the late 1970's. We wrote some nice papers on the Lorenz equations. We continued to work together after he went to CalTech as an Instructor. After that, he went back to his native New Zealand, first to the DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), working on geothermal power, and is now at the Victoria University of Wellington.
Stephen O'Brien worked for Philips in Holland before taking leave for a year to do a doctorate with Alan Tayler in OCIAM. After returning to Philips, he eventually decided to make the transition to academic life, and is now Associate Professor in the University of Limerick. He is principally interested in thin film flows, particularly those of industrial interest, but has recently begun working with me on geophysical problems. He is a good footballer, but prefers Murphy's to Guinness.
Emanuele Schiavi first visited Oxford as part of the ESF exchange program on free boundary problems, and then through the ice sheet program EISMINT. In Oxford, we worked on guinness, ice sheet modelling, football and excellent pasta. In Madrid, he is a student of Ildefonso Diaz, and currently works at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid.
David Scott is, or was, a geophysicist who followed an NERC fellowship at Oxford (after graduate work with Dave Stevenson at CalTech) by taking a lecturership at University College London. He left academic work to take a job as a financial analyst with a Japanese bank.
Jonathan Sherratt was a postdoc at Oxford in the Centre for Mathematical Biology, then a lecturer in the University of Warwick, and now Professor at Heriot-Watt.
Colin Sparrow and I first met in the loo at a West Coast nonlinear dynamics conference. He was out at Berkeley for a year having finished his book on the Lorenz equations, which I had reviewed for Princeton University Press (it was eventually published by Springer). I remember the conference principally for the casual thrashing at `Pacman' which Colin administered to Mark McGuinness in a pizza parlour. Later, in 1984, Colin came and stayed at Woods Hole where I was on the staff for the GFD summer program, and we spent the summer working out the geometry of 3-d intersecting skewed spiral scrolls. First drafted in 1984, the paper was not published till 1991. Colin is now on the faculty at DPMMS in Cambridge.
Joe Walder is a glaciologist, formerly with the Glaciology group at the University of Washington, and currently a scientist at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington. He visited Oxford twice in 1988 and 1989 or so, and we devised a theory for subglacial drainage over deformable beds. He is interested in the interaction between volcanic eruptions and glaciers, for example in the generation of lahars and jökulhlaups.
Stephen Walter was a contemporary undergraduate with me, and subsequently became computing officer in Oxford Brookes University. It was he who brought the problem of respiratory monitoring to us, through his contact with Peter Fleming. He died of cancer in 1996.