People at UWO Applied Mathematics

Colin Denniston
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair

Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario Middlesex College, Room 266 London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 tel: (519) 661-2111 ext. 88791 fax: (519) 661-3523 email: cdennist at uwo.ca web: http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~cdennist/ PhD Princeton, Physics, Condensed Matter Theory 1997 MA Princeton, Physics 1993 BSc Simon Fraser, Physics, Math minor 1991

Research Interests

• Soft Condensed Matter Physics
• Complex Fluids
• Granular matter
• Theory and simulation of micro and nano-fluidic devices
• Developing numerical methods and analytical techniques to study the above

Representative Publications

• C. Denniston and J. M. Yeomans, "Flexoelectric surface switching of bistable nematic devices", Physical Review Letters 87 275505 (2001). PRL online or cond-mat/0108074
• G. Toth, C. Denniston and J. M. Yeomans, "Hydrodynamics of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals", Physical Review Letters 88, 105504 (2002). PRL online or cond-mat/0201378
• C. Denniston and M. O. Robbins, "On molecular and continuum boundary conditions for a miscible binary fluid", Physical Review Letters 87, 178302 (2001). PRL online or cond-mat/0105383
• C. Denniston and H. Li, "Dynamics and stress in gravity driven granular flow", Phys. Rev. E 59, 3289 (1999). PRE online or cond-mat/9810047