Martyn Parker

Title: Maths Teaching Fellow
Phone: 01782 733261
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Location: MacKay Building Room 2.18
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Before seeing the light and moving to Keele, I started my mathematical career at Warwick where I obtained a degree in mathematics. In need of further mathematical enrichment, I continued to take a PhD, studying how algebraic techniques, like group theory, can be used to study differential equations! This has applications to many different areas of the physical sciences; for example, it helps us understand different animal gaits (basically, how animals move around) in biology.

Before coming to Keele I was a centre manager with the Further Maths Network and then an Area Coordinator with the Further Maths Support Programme. Like David Bedford here at Keele, I supported the mathematical development of students across Birmingham and The Black Country, providing enrichment events and tuition for Maths and Further Maths A-level.

At Keele, along with my university teaching, I'm involved with a wide range of outreach events; I enjoy showing people how maths helps us understand the world around us and hopefully changing their perceptions of the subject.

Selected Publications

  • Parker MJ and STEWART I. 2008. A New Mechanism for Intermittency in Rings of Cells. Internat. J. Bif. Chaos., vol. 18(3), 675-687. doi>
  • Parker MJ, STEWART IN, GOMES MGM. 2008. Examples of Forced Symmetry-breaking to Homoclinic Cycles in Three-dimensional Euclidean-invariant Systems. Internat. J. Bif. Chaos, vol. 18(1), 83-107. doi>
  • Parker MJ, STEWART IN, GOMES MGM. 2008. Partial Classification of Heteroclinic Behaviour Associated with the Perturbation of Hexagonal Planforms. Dyn. Sys., vol. 23(2), 137-162. doi>
  • Parker MJ and STEWART I. 2008. Periodic Dynamics of Coupled Cell Networks II: Cyclic Symmetry. Dyn. Sys., vol. 23(1), 17-41. doi>
  • Parker MJ and STEWART I. 2007. Periodic Dynamics of Coupled Cell Networks I: Rigid Patterns of Synchrony and Phase Relations. Dyn. Sys., vol. 22(4), 389-450. doi>

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Journal Articles

  • Parker MJ, Gomes MGM, Stewart IN. 2009. EXAMPLES OF FORCED SYMMETRY-BREAKING TO HETEROCLINIC CYCLES AND NETWORKS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL EUCLIDEAN-INVARIANT SYSTEMS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS, vol. 19(5), 1655-1678. link> doi>
  • Parker MJ and STEWART I. 2008. A New Mechanism for Intermittency in Rings of Cells. Internat. J. Bif. Chaos., vol. 18(3), 675-687. doi>
  • Parker MJ, STEWART IN, GOMES MGM. 2008. Examples of Forced Symmetry-breaking to Homoclinic Cycles in Three-dimensional Euclidean-invariant Systems. Internat. J. Bif. Chaos, vol. 18(1), 83-107. doi>
  • Parker MJ, STEWART IN, GOMES MGM. 2008. Partial Classification of Heteroclinic Behaviour Associated with the Perturbation of Hexagonal Planforms. Dyn. Sys., vol. 23(2), 137-162. doi>
  • Parker MJ and STEWART I. 2008. Periodic Dynamics of Coupled Cell Networks II: Cyclic Symmetry. Dyn. Sys., vol. 23(1), 17-41. doi>
  • Parker MJ and STEWART I. 2007. Periodic Dynamics of Coupled Cell Networks I: Rigid Patterns of Synchrony and Phase Relations. Dyn. Sys., vol. 22(4), 389-450. doi>
  • Parker MJ, Stewart IN, GOMES MGM. 2006. Forced Symmetry-breaking of Square Lattice Planforms. J. Dynam. Differential Equations, vol. 18(1), 223-255. doi>

MAT-10038: Algebra I
MAT-10042: Applicable Mathematics
MAT-10044: Investigations and Problem Solving
MAT-30023: Mathematical Biology