Department Staff
Head of Department
Associate Professor Jennifer Brown
mathhod@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 400, Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2696
Research Interests
Ecological statistics, environmental monitoring, animal population assessment, sampling theory, experimental design.
Administrative Staff
Pauline Auger
Administrative Assistant
P.Auger@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 403 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2600
Julie Daly, BCom(AFIS), GradDipMgt.
Administration Manager
J.Daly@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 401 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2697
Penelope Goode
Department Administrator
Head of Department P.A.
Penelope.Goode@canterbury.ac.nz
Room 402 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 4846
Sarah Vincent
Administrative Assistant
S.Vincent@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 402 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7698
Academic Staff
Liz Ackerley
STAR Course Co–ordinator
Senior Academic Tutor
L.Ackerley@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 412 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2690
Associate Professor Rick Beatson
R.Beatson@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 714 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2675
Research Interests
Mathematics, statistics and fast algorithms for fitting spatial data. Radial basis functions. Visualisation. Applications to laser scanner and geophysical data. Neural networks, Kriging and Cross Validation.
Professor Douglas Bridges
Professor of Pure Mathematics
D.Bridges@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 704 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7427
Research Interests
Constructive foundations of analysis, topology, algebra, and physics. Computability and complexity. Mathematical economics.
Associate Professor Jennifer Brown
Head of Department
mathhod@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 400, Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2696
Research Interests
Ecological statistics, environmental monitoring, animal population assessment, sampling theory, experimental design.
Dr Richard Brown
Fixed Term Lecturer in Mathematics
R.Brown@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 710 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7694
Research Interests
Mathematical biology. Spatial population models. Applied linear algebra. Geometry in computer vision.
Dr Qui Bui
Senior Lecturer
Q.Bui@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 713 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7662
Research Interests
Fourier analysis. Wavelet analysis. Weighted functions spaces. Littlewood-Paley theory.
Jane Clucas
Senior Tutor
Jane.Clucas@canterbury.ac.nz
Room 423 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8320
Associate Professor Ian Coope
I.Coope@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 504 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2676
Research Interests
Numerical optimization. Linear algebra and applications. Computational science.
Irene David
Director of Teaching — Tutors
Senior Academic Tutor
I.David@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 413 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8369
Dr James Degnan
Lecturer
J.Degnan@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 611 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2682
Research Interests
Phylogenetics and population genetics, the coalescent process applied to multiple speices.
Dr John Hannah
Senior Lecturer
J.Hannah@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 712 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7685
Research Interests
Abstract and linear algebra. Mathematics education. History of mathematics.
Dr Mark Hickman
Senior Lecturer
M.Hickman@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 613 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7693
Research Interests
Symmetries of differential equations. Invariance under groups. Algebraic computing. Dynamical systems.
Miriam Hodge
Assistant Lecturer in Statistics
Miriam.Hodge@canterbury.ac.nz
Room 502 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7663
Pam Hurst
Senior Tutor
P.Hurst@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 514 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8871
Dr Alex James
Senior Lecturer
A.James@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 624 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8877
Research Interests
Modelling of problems in combustion and ecology including larval fish growth and the role of environmental stochasticity.
Dr Dominic Lee
Director of Teaching — Statistics
Senior Lecturer
D.Lee@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 612 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7665
Research Interests
Computational, Bayesian and nonparametric statistics, with applications in medical research, bioinformatics, signal processing and image processing.
Dr Ben Martin
Senior Lecturer
B.Martin@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 602 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7687
Research Interests
Varieties of representations of finitely generated groups, and applications; reductive algebraic groups; subgroup growth and representation growth of finitely generated groups; automorphism groups of trees; geometric invariant theory.
Dr Clemency Montelle
Lecturer
C.Montelle@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 711 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2267
Research Interests
History and Philosophy of Mathematics. The preparation, translation, and commentary of ancient mathematical texts in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic and Akkadian. Ancient Mathematical Astronomy and Modelling.
Dr Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez
Lecturer
Miguel.MoyersGonzalez@canterbury.ac.nz
Room 700 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7666
Research Interests
Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. Hydrodynamic stability of Complex fluids. Industrial mathematics. Hemodynamics (modeling and computation). Partial Differential Equations: numerical and theoretical approaches.
Dr Rua Murray
Deputy Head of Department
Senior Lecturer
R.Murray@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 604 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8376
Research Interests
Dynamical systems; ergodic theory; numerical effects in dynamics; approximation theory.
Dr Michael Plank
Senior Lecturer
M.Plank@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 614 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2699
Research Interests
Mathematical biology. Modelling problems in biology, ecology and engineering, including cardiovascular disease and kidney function.
Dr Chris Price
Senior Lecturer
C.Price@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 601 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7682
Research Interests
Optimisation, Acoustics.
Dr Marco Reale
Senior Lecturer
M.Reale@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 722 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7681
Research Interests
Interactions between graph theory and statistics, in particular time series analysis. Applications to econometrics, finance and bioinformatics.
Dr Peter Renaud
Senior Lecturer
P.Renaud@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 503 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7677
Research Interests
Functional analysis. Ergodic theory. Number theory. Cryptography. Clifford algebras. Quantum Mechanics.
Dr Raazesh Sainudiin
Lecturer
R.Sainudiin@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 724 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7691
Research Interests
Statistical inference of stochastic processes embedded within stochastically evolving networks. Examples include statistical decision problems in population genetics, phylogenetics, and ecological genetics.
Dr Carl Scarrott
Senior Lecturer
C.Scarrott@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 721 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8338
Research Interests
Spatial statistics, extreme value methods and spectral analysis with application to problems in industry, ecology, environment and science.
Associate Professor Charles Semple
Director of Research
C.Semple@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 621 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8349
Research Interests
Combinatorics, computational complexity, and computational biology with particular interests in phylogenetics and matroid theory.
Associate Professor Peter Smith
Peter.Smith@canterbury.ac.nz
Room 622 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7684
Research Interests
Statistical design and analysis of communication systems. Digital mobile radio systems. Antenna arrays. MIMO wireless systems. Simulation.
Professor Mike Steel
Director for Biomathematics Research Centre
M.Steel@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 623 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7688
Research Interests
Discrete and stochastic models, bioinformatics, theoretical biology and evolutionary genetics.
Dr Günter Steinke
Director of Teaching — Mathematics
Senior Lecturer
G.Steinke@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 603 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7680
Research Interests
Geometry. Topology. Groups. Combinatorics.
Professor David Wall
D.Wall@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 701, Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2689
Research Interests
Mathematical wave theory. Inverse problems. Mathematical biology. Computational mathematics. Applied dynamical systems.
Associate Professor Neil Watson
N.Watson@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 500 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7692
Research Interests
Partial differential equations and potential theory.
Phillipa Williams
Senior Academic Tutor
P.Williams@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 420 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8341
Dr Phil Wilson
Lecturer
P.Wilson@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 702 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2664
Research Interests
Mathematical modelling in biology and industry. Multiscale information transfer and emergent phenomena. Philosophy and communication of mathematics.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Abdulla Firag
A.Firag@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 710 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7694
Research Interests
Statistical analysis and simulation of communication systems, random matrix theory, adaptive equalization for wireless communications, space-time coding, cooperative diversity, and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless relaying systems.
Dr Igor Rychkov
Igor.Rychkov@canterbury.ac.nz
Room 723 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8339
Dr Jeroen Schillewaert
Jeroen.Schillewaert@canterbury.ac.nz
Room 723 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8339
Research Interests
Geometry, number theory and group theory.
Dr Leo van Iersel
L.vanIersel@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 620 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7431
Research Interests
Algorithms for constructing phylogenetic networks and trees and for other problems in computational biology.
Fellows
Dr Arno Berger
Adjunct Senior Fellow
arno.berger@ualberta.ca
Research Interests
Dynamical systems. Ergodic theory. Applied probability and stochastic processes. Stability and bifurcation theory. Symmetry and scaling. Classical mechanics.
Mr Bob Broughton
Adjunct Senior Fellow
R.Broughton@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 610 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2667
Research Interests
Computing in Education, Computational Mathematics.
Dr Easaw Chacko
Adjunct Senior Fellow
E.Chacko@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 424 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8203
Research Interests
Probability theory, Stochastic processes, time-series analysis.
Adjunct Associate Professor Irene Hudson
Research Interests
Medical statistics and epidemiology of chronic diseases. Stochastic counting processes and modellingspatial data. Bio-engineering mathematics and time series modelling of disease. Transient state modelling. Forestry and psychometric structural equation modelling.
Adjunct Professor Michael McAleer
Richard Penny
Adjunct Fellow
Richard.Penny@stats.govt.nz
Room 424 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8203, or +64 3 964 8769
Research Interests
Design, implementation and analysis of complex surveys, confidentiality and privacy, seasonal adjustment.
Dr David Robinson
Adjunct Senior Fellow
D.Robinson@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 421 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8384
Research Interests
Mathematics of plant architecture.
Dr Luminiţa Simona Vîţă
Adjunct Fellow
simona.vita@nielsen.com
The Nielsen Company, Wellington
Research Interests
Constructive foundations of analysis and topology. Recursive functions theory, computability and complexity.
Ian Westbrooke
Adjunct Fellow
iwestbrooke@doc.govt.nz
Research Interests
Environmental statistics, statistics for conservation; applied data visualisation (graphing);
Emeritus Professors
Emeritus Professor John Deely
Emeritus Professor Roy Kerr
Roy.Kerr@canterbury.ac.nz
Phone: +64 3 364 2600
Photographer: Max Alexander
Emeritus Professor Brian Woods
Phone: +64 3 364 2600Visiting Lecturers
Trent McDonald
Ester Meenken
David Mukai
Bruce Craig
Allen Willms
Jason Bentley
Associates
Dr Bill Baritompa
B.Baritompa@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Phone: +64 3 364 2600
Research Interests
Global optimisation, theoretical limitations and design of practical algorithms. Scientific and statistical computing. Mathematics education.
Dr A.W. McInnes
A.McInnes@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Phone: +64 3 364 2600
Research Interests
Computational mathematics. Approximation theory. Approximation by Algebraic functions.
Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@math.canterbury.ac.nzRoom 600 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2686
Research Interests
Probability, with emphasis on discrete probability processes and the connection between probability and logic.
Computer Support Staff
Paul Brouwers
Computer Technician/Programmer
P.Brouwers@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 410 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8872
Mr Steve Gourdie
ITCS Manager
S.Gourdie@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 411 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7425
Mr Allen Witt
Senior Programmer/Analyst
A.Witt@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Room 414 Erskine Building
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 8498