Prof. Christian Beck Address : School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS, UK Room Number: 351 Telephone: +44 20 7882 3286 E-Mail: c.beck@qmul.ac.uk FAX: +44 20 7882 7684

I am also Director of the new MSc in Mathematical Finance.

Research :

• I am currently co-investigator of the EPSRC grant Flood MEMORY (Multi-Event Modelling Of Risk & recoverY), a joint project of 10 UK universities to better understand the clustered statistics of flooding events. More details on the EPSRC website.
• main research interests
  ---Complex Systems ---Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaotic Behaviour ---Statistical Mechanics
  --- Coupled Map Lattices and Spatio-Temporal Chaos
  ---Statistics of Lagrangian quantum turbulence
  ---Thermodynamic Formalism of Dynamical Systems
  --- Generalized statistical mechanics methods for complex systems
  --- Superstatistics
  ---Geophysics, tidal waves, floodings
  --- Brownian motion, Langevin processes, nonequilibrium situations
  --- Fully Developed Turbulence
  ---Stochastic and Chaotic Quantization
  --- Chaotic scalar fields, dynamical models of vacuum fluctuations
  --- Possible measurable effects of dark energy in superconductors
  ---axions
  ---statistics of genomic sequences
  ---stochastic volatility in mathematical finance

  In total my scientific work has been cited more than 3800 times.

  Information for prospective PhD students

  visting research fellow:
  Dr. Ghazala Akram

  postdoc:
  Dr. Pau Rabassa

  current PhD students:
  Shihan Miah (working on quantum turbulence)
  Myron Tuang (working on mathematical finance)
  Dan Xu (working on mathematical finance)

Publications and Preprints :

Publications and preprints 2001-2013
Complete list of publications

My 1st book (with F. Schloegl, Cambridge University Press, 1993)
(paperback edition 1995)

My 2nd book (World Scientific, 2002)


Here you can see it in more detail.
This has appeared in the Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics of World Scientific.

Another book of which I am a co-editor (World Scientific, 2005)

Editorial Membership :

I am an Advisory Editor of
PHYSICA A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.



If you like to submit a manuscript, please submit on the Elsevier website,
choose C. Tsallis as a main editor and add a comment that you want me (as an advisory editor) to handle your paper.

I am also Associate Editor of
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

Teaching :

Office hours:

Fridays 10.30-11.30

I am the Programme Director of the MSc in Mathematical Finance

This year I am teaching the MSc module Foundations of Mathematical Modelling in Finance

Other activities :

• List of conferences and workshops where I was an invited speaker
• Some links to conferences and workshops where you may have met me recently:

  Anomalous Distributions, Nonlinear Dynamics and Nonextensivity, Santa Fe (Nov. 2002)
  Symposium of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, April 2003
  NEXT 2003, Italy, September 2003
  Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, Salvador, Brazil, October 2003
  Pattern Formation, KITP Santa Barbara, October -- November 2003
  Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics, Udine (Sept. 2004)
  Complexity, Metastability, and Nonextensivity (Erice, Sicily, 20-26 July 2004)
  International Workshop on Complexity and Nonextensivity, Kyoto (March 2005)
  Interdisciplinary Aspects of Turbulence, Tegernsee (April 2005)
  News, Expextations and Trends in Statistical Physics, Crete (August 2005)
  Astrophysics as Interdisciplinary Science, Tokyo (September 2005)
  Anomalous Transport, Bad Honnef (July 2006)
  Summer School and Workshop on Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics, ICTP Trieste (August 2006)
  The Logic of Nature, Complexity and New Physics, Erice (September 2006)
  Outstanding questions for the standard cosmological model, Imperial College London (March 2007)
  Origins of dark energy, Hamilton (May 2007)
  Complexity, Metastability, and Nonextensivity, Catania (July 2007)
  Sigma-Phi Conference on Statistical Physics, Crete (July 2008)
  Greek-Turkish Conference on Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Rhodos/Marmaris (September 2008)
  NEXT2008, Brazil (October 2008)
  XI Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, Buzios, Brazil (October 2009)
  Greek-Turkish Conference on Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Turunc-Symi (September 2010)
  International Workshop of Statistical Physics and Mathematics of Complex Systems, Wuhan, China (October 2010)
  Sigma Phi 2011 Conference, Cyprus (July 2011)
  European Conference on Complex Systems, Vienna (September 2011)

• I was organizer (together with Carl Dettmann, Bristol, and Mark Pollicott, Warwick)
  of the following international symposium:
  

  Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Durham, 3-13 July 2006
  (Durham Cathedral)

Personal :

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