Talks

Plenary and invited lectures

  • Invited plenary speaker (Michell Medal) at the annual meeting of ANZIAM (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society), 'Spiral waves and heteroclinic cycles in Rock-Paper Scissors', Nelson, New Zealand, Feb 2019.

  • Invited plenary speaker, annual meeting of ANZIAM,`Noisy attractors: modelling using heteroclinic and excitable networks', Adelaide, Australia, Feb 2017.

  • Invited plenary speaker at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Mathematics Society, 'Noisy attractors: modelling using heteroclinic and excitable networks', Christchurch, New Zealand, Dec 2015.

  • Invited public lecture by the Royal Society of New Zealand for their 10x10 series of talks to celebrate 2013 as the year of Mathematics of Planet Earth. 'Why did the pigeon cross the road? Mathematical models of animal behaviour', Napier, New Zealand, 2013.

  • Invited plenary speaker at an International Workshop: Progress and Problems in Dynamical Systems, 'Resonances of heteroclinic cycles and networks', Houston, USA, June 2012.

  • Invited plenary speaker at International Conference on Complex Delayed Systems. 'Feedback control of unstable periodic orbits arising from equivariant Hopf bifurcations', Mallorca, Spain, June 2012.


Seminars and conferences presentations

  • 'Spiral waves and heteroclinic cycles in Rock-Paper Scissors', Minisymposium Presentation, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2019.

  • 'Heteroclinic cycles and spiral waves in Rock-Paper-Scissors'. Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio, USA, Sept 2017.

  • 'Designing noisy networks'. Minisymposium Presentation, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2017.

  • 'Why did the pigeon cross the road? Mathematical modelling of animal behaviour'. Invited talk at ANZIAM MathBio Special interest group, Adelaide, Feb 2017.

  • 'Navigational errors in complex environmental fields'. RIN conference, London, April 2016.

  • 'Why did the pigeon cross the road? Mathematical modelling of animal behaviour'. Public lecture, University of Auckland, Nov 2014.

  • 'Heteroclinic networks: stability, switching and memory'. Nottingham University, UK, May 2014.

  • 'Heteroclinic networks: stability, switching and memory'. Exeter University, UK, May 2014.

  • 'Team-based learning in postgraduate mathematics'. Leeds University, UK, April 2014.

  • 'Heteroclinic networks: stability, switching and memory'. Leeds University, UK, April 2014.

  • 'A mathematical model of pigeon navigation'. ANZIAM annual conference, Roturua, New Zealand, February 2014.

  • 'Why did the pigeon cross the road? Mathematical modelling of animal behaviour'. Invited public lecture in RSNZ 10x10 Mathematics of Planet Earth series. Napier, NZ, November 2013.

  • 'Resonance in heteroclinic networks'. Invited speaker in minisymposium on Heteroclinic Cycles, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences meeting, Orlando, USA, July 2012.

  • 'A geometric model for initial orientation errors in pigeon navigation'. Seminar series, School of Biological Science, University of Auckland, NZ, August 2011.

  • 'Optimal movement in the prey capture behaviour of weakly electric fish'. Seminar series, Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, NZ, August 2011.

  • 'Switching on a heteroclinic network'. Minisymposium Presentation, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2011.

  • 'Dynamics of heteroclinic cycles and networks'. Minisymposium Organiser, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2011.

  • 'A geometric model for initial orientation errors in pigeon navigation'. Contributed presentation, Royal Society meeting on Orientation and Navigation, UK, April 2011.

  • 'Bifurcations of heteroclinic cycles'. NZMC conference, Otago University, NZ, December 2010.

  • 'What matters to an Applied Mathematician? A conversation that explores this theme' (with Judy Paterson). Keynote Presentation at a teacher’s professional development day, Auckland Mathematics Association, NZ, November 2010.

  • 'Optimal movement in the prey capture behaviour of weakly electric fish'. Seminar series, School of Biological Science, University of Auckland, NZ, September 2010.

  • 'A geometric model for initial orientation errors in pigeon navigation'. Poster presentation, SIAM Conference on Life Sciences, Pittsburgh, USA, July 2010.

  • 'Bifurcations from robust heteroclinic cycles'. Seminar series, Leeds University, UK, January 2010.

  • 'Switching on heteroclinic networks'. Poster presentation, NZMC conference, Massey University, NZ, December 2009.

  • 'Feedback control of long-period periodic orbits'. Contributed Presentation, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2009.

  • 'Feedback control of unstable periodic orbits'. Special session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, ANZMC conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, December 2008.

  • 'Optimal movement in the prey capture behaviour of weakly electric fish'. Special session on Biological Modelling, ANZMC conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, December 2008.

  • 'Optimal movement in the prey capture behaviour of weakly electric fish'. Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Auckland, NZ, October 2008.

  • 'Optimal movement and motor capacity in a short-range aquatic predator'. Society for Mathematical Biology Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, August 2008.

  • 'Feedback control of unstable patterns and periodic orbits'. DAMTP seminar series, University of Cambridge, UK, July 2008.

  • 'Feedback control of unstable patterns and periodic orbits'. AMS Central sectional meeting, Chicago, USA, October 2007.

  • 'Controlling travelling waves of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with spatial feedback'. Poster presentation, GRC Nonlinear Science, Maine, USA, June 2007.

  • 'Controlling travelling waves of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with spatial feedback'. Contributed Presentation, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2007.

  • 'Controlling pattern formation'. Short presentation, Introductory Workshop on Dynamical Systems with Emphasis on Extended Systems, MSRI, Berkeley, USA, January 2007.

  • 'Controlling travelling waves of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with spatial feedback'. Connections for Women: Dynamical Systems, MSRI, Berkeley, USA, January 2007.

  • 'Cycling Cycles: Dynamics near a Heteroclinic Network'. Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Northwestern University, USA, October 2006.

  • 'Cycling Cycles: Dynamics near a Heteroclinic Network'. Presentation at the Isaac Newton Institute Programme 'Pattern Formation in Large Domains', UK, October 2005.

  • 'A Codimension Two Resonant Bifurcation from a Heteroclinic Cycle with Complex Eigenvalues'. Contributed Presentation, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2005.

  • 'Cycling Cycles: Dynamics near a Heteroclinic Network'. Poster presentation at Coupled 60 workshop, University of Houston, Texas, USA, February 2005.

  • 'Cycling Cycles: Dynamics near a Heteroclinic Network'. Applied Mathematics Seminar Series, Exeter, UK, November 2004.

  • 'Cycling Cycles: Dynamics near a Heteroclinic Network'. DAMTP 2nd year PhD Seminar Series, Cambridge, UK, May 2004.

  • 'Cycling Cycles: Dynamics near a Heteroclinic Network'. LMS PANDA meeting, Cambridge, UK, December 2003.

  • 'Heteroclinic Networks in Rotating Convection'. AFD/NLP Group Seminar Series, Cambridge, UK, October 2003.

  • 'Heteroclinic Networks in Rotating Convection'. Poster presentation at Workshop on Dynamics and Bifurcations of Patterns, Colorado State University, USA, May 2003.

  • 'Heteroclinic Networks in Rotating Convection'. Poster presentation at SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Utah, USA, May 2003.