- Stephen Hyde:
Associates, colleagues and other rascals
(updated December 4,
2004)
My sometime workplace - Aragunnu
Point, Mimosa Rocks, New
South Wales coast.
Like most scientists, I cannot
work in splendid isolation. "My" work
is the result of collaborations with students, postdocs, ... at the
Australian National University in Canberra and elsewhere. At the
considerable risk of neglecting people that should be listed here and
are not &endash; due to (1) my bad memory and (2) the current time of
day (02.28), I offer the following incomplete list......
Current Students
- Gerhard Schröder (PhD
student, 2002-2005);
Gerd's work involves development
of a rigorous theory of "labyrinth graphs" of hyperbolic surfaces
embedded in 3D space, using the tools of discrete and computational
geometry, with a heavy dose of visualisation. He comes to Canberra
after a degree in physics from Köln University.
- Anna Carnerup (PhD student,
2003-2006)
Anna is a chemist from Malmö
University; her PhD is devoted to understanding the growth of abiotic
"biomorphs": carbonate-silica composites that adopt a range of
fascinating curved forms. A focus to date has been on the
"bio"chemical and morphological similarities between biomorphs and
Archaean "microfossils". Most of her time is spent in the chemistry
lab and by the electron microscope.
- Judit O'Vara (Masters student,
2004-)
Judit hails from Adelaide. She is
studying the dynamics of network evolution under simple "flip"
(Rivier T1) operations.
- Toen Castle (PhD student,
2004-)
Toen (a graduate of ANU, Canberra)
is studying the theory of networks. The approach involves
undersatnding reticulations of hyperbolic surface modules that can be
glued to form various hyperbolic manifolds.
Former Students
Some current colleagues (2003):
STH, Ankie Larsson, Tiziana Di Matteo, Stuart Ramsden and Vanessa
Robins. I know, we look stoopid; we cannot help it. The background is
a fragment of a novel octacontinuous periodic branched minimal
surface.
Local colleagues:
- Prof Barry Ninham (who hired me at ANU in the first place, way, way
back...) We have worled on and off over the years on self-assembly
of soft matter, particularly microemulsions
- Dr Andrei Rode is a laser physicist whose interests in
experimental ultrafast laser ablation have led to many interesting
materials.
- Prof Eugene Gamaly is also a
laser physicist; a theoretician interested in Andrei Rode's
experimental interests
- Dr Andy Christy is a
mineralogist-geologist-chemist, and a close colleague on magnetic
carbon studies as well as a central collaborator on earlier
biomorph studies (2000-2003).
- Dr AnnKristin Larsson is a
crystallographer/solid state chemist, working with me on
biomorphs. She joined us from Stockholm in 2002. Ankie has
extensive interests in high resolution electron microscopy and
solid state (often modulated) crystal structures.
- Dr Tomaso Aste is a theoretical physicist who was persuaded to
leave Italy (Genova) in 2002 for the green(ish) fields of
Canberra; we work together on disordered networks, topological
characterisation of networks and complex systems stuff.
- Dr Tiziana Di Matteo is also a theoretical physicist (ex Salerno); she
joined our group also in 2002 and - with Tomaso - is active in
bringing econophysics and complexity ideas to the group.
- Stuart Ramsden is our resident computer visualisation guru. He
has been very active with software development over the past few
years that has allowed ideas on hyperbolic tilings that he and I
developed to take shape, literally. The beautiful geometric images
that illustrate our constructions are due to him!
- Dr Vanessa Robins is a mathematical physicist who, with Stuart and
myself, is active in enumerating crystal networks. She is also
developing theories of network deformation and physical properties
of networks.
International colleagues
include....
- Prof Sten Andersson (Sandvik
Research Institute, Sweden), who got me into the area of
hyperbolic surfaces and their relevance to chemistry in the early
1980's.... Since then he has developed an interesting apporach to
geometric structural description and parametrisation using
exponential functions (what Barry Ninham has called
"multiplicative geometry"). He constructed his own publications
repository in 2004, and I recommend a visit to www.sandforsk.se for a closer look at his unique
approach.
- Prof Kåre Larsson (Camurus and KLChem, Sweden) was a colleague of
Sten in the 80's in Lund, Sweden. He initiated me into the world
of lipid-water self-assembly, and Sten, Kåre and I developed
the fisrt differential geometric models of bicontinuous liquid
crystals in the '80's. Since then he has remained very active in
the field, with interests in self-assembly at the mesoscopic scale
in biological systems.
- Prof Mike O'Keeffe (Arizona State University) reignited my interest
in chemical networks a few years ago, He has championed the study
of 3D crystalline nets (with Sten Andersson and my father, Bruce
Hyde) and his recent contributions to that study (using &endash;
like us &endash; Delaney-Dress tiling theory; only in 3D euclidean
space, in contrast to our 2D hyperbolic apporach) are essential
readng for those intersted in networks.
Fernando (Juanma's
father-in-law), JuanManual Garcia Ruiz, STH in Seville, 2003.
- Dr
Juan Manuel García Ruiz (Granada University and CSIC, Spain) is a
geologist and crystal-grower extraordinaire, who introduced me to
the strange world of biomorphs around 1998. Since then we have
collaborated on that area (with Ankie Larsson, Andy Christy and
Anna Carnerup, listed above).
- Dr
Christophe Oguey
(Cergy-Pontoise University, France) is a theoretical physicist
who, like me, is passionate about hyperbolic geometry.
- Dr
Hirokazu Hasegawa (and Prof. Takeji Hashimoto, Kyoto University, Japan) is a polymer
chemist active in block copolymer self-assembly studies. We have
collaborated in the past on bicontinuous mesophases in copolymer
systems. More recently, we restarted that collaboration (2004) due
to mutual interests in polycontinuous mesophases and structural
studies of 3D photonic crystals in biological systems.