Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Professor A A Lacey FRSE
Andrew Lacey is in the
Mathematics Department of Heriot-Watt University where he has worked since 1982. Before
that he was at Oxford University as an undergraduate, graduate student, and
postdoctoral research fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of
1851. He also spent eighteen months as a research fellow at the Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is on the Scientific Committee of the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh in 1990 and is presently a Co-Editor in Chief of the European Journal of
Applied Mathematics and and an Editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Research Interests
- Free-boundary problems.
- Phase transitions.
- Reaction diffusion equations.
- Blow-up of parabolic problems.
- Industrial applied mathematics.
- Asymptotic methods.
Current projects include work on mathematical modelling
of homeless populations, with Andy Waugh, the mathematics
of calorimetry, the mathematical modelling and analysis of some fire
problems, linear friction welding, and crust formation during bread
baking.
Abstracts of recent papers and preprints
Copies of these preprints are available on request
by telephone, fax, post,
or e-mail.
Last updated 15th July 2007.