Research interests, Publications, Graduate Students, Conferences




John A G Roberts

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Associate Professor J A G Roberts
School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052, Australia

Brief History

  • BSc (Hons 1), Applied Mathematics, Australian National University, 1985.
  • PhD, Mathematics, University of Melbourne, 1990.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1990-2.
  • ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Mathematics, University of Melbourne, 1992-5.
  • Department of Mathematics, La Trobe University, 1996-2001.
  • School of Mathematics, UNSW, 2001-
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    Research Interests and Selected Papers

    Nonlinear dynamical systems, with particular interests in the following topics (and their interrelation):

  • Integrable dynamical systems
  • Symmetry and Time-reversal symmetry
  • Dynamical systems arising from quasiperiodic physical phenomena
    • J.A.G. Roberts and M. Baake, Trace maps as 3D reversible dynamical systems with an invariant, J. Stat. Phys. 74 (1994) 829-888. PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts, Escaping orbits in trace maps, Physica A 228 (1996) 295-325. PDF version
    • M. Baake and J.A.G. Roberts, Reversing symmetry group of GL(2,Z) and PGL(2,Z) matrices with connections to cat maps and trace maps, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 (1997) 1549-1573. PDF version
    • M.Baake and J.A.G. Roberts, Symmetries and reversing symmetries of toral automorphisms, Nonlinearity 14 (2001) R1-24. PDF version
  • Algebraic dynamics
    • J. Pettigrew, J.A.G. Roberts and F. Vivaldi, Complexity of regular invertible p-adic motions, Chaos 11 (2001) 849-857. PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts and F. Vivaldi, Arithmetical method to detect integrability in maps, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 034102. PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts, D. Jogia and F. Vivaldi, The Hasse-Weil bound and integrability detection in rational maps, J. Nonlinear Math. Phys. 10 (2003) 166-180. PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts and F. Vivaldi, Signature of time-reversal symmetry in polynomial automorphisms over finite fields, Nonlinearity 18 (2005) 2171-2192. PDF version
    • M.Baake, J.A.G. Roberts and A. Weiss, Periodic orbits of linear endomorphisms on the 2-torus and its lattices, Nonlinearity 21 (2008) 2427-2446. PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts and F. Vivaldi, A combinatorial model for reversible rational maps over finite fields, Nonlinearity 22 (2009) 1965-1982. PDF version
    • N.Neumaerker, J.A.G. Roberts and F. Vivaldi, Distribution of periodic orbits for the Casati-Prosen map on rational lattices, accepted for Physica D (2011) PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts, Order and symmetry in birational difference equations and their signatures over finite phase spaces, preprint (2011) PDF version

    Research Associates

    Current and recent research associates:
    • Alina Ostafe [arithmetic dynamics] [UNSW VC Postdoc], 10/2013-
    • Dinh Tran [integrable systems], 2011-
    • Natascha Neumaerker [arithmetic dynamics], 2009-10
    • Danesh Jogia [integrable systems], 2008

    Graduate Students

    I very much enjoy supervising (good!) postgraduate students - formulating ideas and projects and seeing them through to fruition in papers and theses. Please feel free to contact me if your research interests match mine.

    Current and recent students:
    • Jim Pettigrew, Characterising singular curves in parametrised families of biquadratics, PhD, 2004-9
    • Danesh Jogia, Algebraic aspects of integrability and reversibility in maps, PhD, 2003-7
    • Rahmi Rusin, A Study of Limit Cycles and Quadratic Systems, MSc (minor thesis), 2002-3.
    • Apostolos Iatrou, Integrable Mappings of the Plane preserving biquadratic invariant curves, PhD (La Trobe University), 2000-3.
    • Jim Pettigrew, Invertible p-adic dynamics of polynomial maps, MSc (La Trobe University), 1999-2001.

    Selected Recent Publications

    • J. Pettigrew and J.A.G. Roberts, Characterizing singular curves in parametrized families of biquadratics, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 115203. PDF version
    • M.Baake, J.A.G. Roberts and A. Weiss, Periodic orbits of linear endomorphisms on the 2-torus and its lattices, Nonlinearity 21 (2008) 2427-2446. PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts and F. Vivaldi, A combinatorial model for reversible rational maps over finite fields, Nonlinearity 22 (2009) 1965-1982. PDF version
    • J.A.G. Roberts, Order and symmetry in birational difference equations and their signatures over finite phase spaces, Proceedings of the Workshop Future Directions in Difference Equations, Conference Collection 69, Univ. Vigo, Serv. Publ., Vigo, (2011) pp. 213-221. PDF version
    • N.Neumaerker, J.A.G. Roberts and F. Vivaldi, Distribution of periodic orbits for the Casati-Prosen map on rational lattices, Physica D 241 (2012) 360-371. PDF version
    • M.Baake, N.Neumaerker and J.A.G. Roberts, Orbit structure and (reversing) symmetries of toral endomorphisms on rational lattices, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems 33 (2013) 527-553. PDF version

    Conferences

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