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Research interests
Dynamical systems, statistical physics, wireless networks.
A more complete description of activities may be found at my home page, https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~macpd/
PhD projects
I am happy to supervise well motivated students who want to work on the above general areas. Two areas of particular interest are:
Deterministic diffusion A particle moves according to a deterministic law in an unbounded domain, starting from a random initial condition. How does the displacement depend on time? A good class of such systems to visualise are mathematical billiards: The particle (“billiard ball”) moves in straight lines except for reflections from obstacles. Different shapes lead to dynamical properties from regular to chaotic and including many finer distinctions. The obstacle locations can be deterministic or random. Depending on these factors the diffusion can be anything from normal (Brownian motion) to highly anomalous. See my paper "Diffusion in the Lorentz gas," available from the above website.
Spatial networks What happens if you place points randomly in space, link them with a probability that depends on pairwise distance, and study the resulting network? How does this depend on the shape of the domain, the density of points, generalisations such as angular dependence, obstacles, time-dependent locations? These questions are interesting from both a theoretical and practical point of view. One of the main applications is the design of wireless ad-hoc networks, of interest to Toshiba research labs in Bristol. But there are many other kinds of networks with spatial structure that could be considered. See my paper "Random geometric graphs with general connection functions", available from the above website.
For more ideas, please look at other recent publications available from the above website. They are research articles, hence rather technical; please read only to get the general idea, and then contact me to discuss your interests.
External positions
External examiner, MSc Complex Systems Modelling, King's College London
Oct 2021 → Oct 2025
External examiner (undergraduate applied mathematics), Queen Mary University of London
1 Sept 2016 → 31 Dec 2020
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The Distribution of the Number of Isolated Nodes in the 1-Dimensional Soft Random Geometric Graph
Wilsher, M. J. G., Dettmann, C. P. & Ganesh, A. J., Feb 2023, In: Statistics and Probability Letters. 193, 7 p., 109695.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Lower bounds and dense discontinuity phenomena for the stabilizability radius of linear switched systems
Dettmann, C. P., Jungers, R. M. & Mason, P., 1 Aug 2020, In: Systems and Control Letters. 142, 6 p., 104737.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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On the k nearest-neighbor path distance from the typical intersection in the Manhattan Poisson line Cox process
Koufos, K., Dhillon, H. S., Dettmann, C. P. & Dainati, M., 27 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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How sticky is the chaos/order boundary?
Dettmann , C. P. (Creator) & Dettmann , C. P. (Data Manager), University of Bristol, 23 Mar 2016
DOI: 10.5523/bris.ujws3ienvh8q1arcsm7c4q7ew, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/ujws3ienvh8q1arcsm7c4q7ew
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Random geometric graphs with general connection functions
Dettmann , C. P. (Creator) & Georgiou, O. (Creator), University of Bristol, 26 Feb 2016
DOI: 10.5523/bris.xj9ldn54zk6b16ly5xjkqta7v, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/xj9ldn54zk6b16ly5xjkqta7v
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