Christian A. Yates

MSc (Oxon) in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing, BA (Oxon) in Mathematics

Junior Research Fellow - Christ Church College, Oxford
Tutor - Christ Church College Oxford
Tutor - Perturbation Methods

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eMail: Christian [dot] Yates [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
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CV: Current_Maths_CV.pdf

Phone Number(s):

Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 283891

Office: DH43

Departmental Address:

Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England

Research Interests:

Mathematical Biology, Stochastic Modelling of Biological processes, Collective behaviour, Somitogenesis, Cell migration, Bacterial Chemotaxis, Self propelled Particle models, Locusts, Domain Growth, Accelerated Stochastic Simulation

Prizes, Awards and Scholarships:

Junior Research Fellowship - Christ Church College, Oxford

Leathersellers' Scholarship (St Catherine's College) - For academic achievement.

Martin Senior Scholarship (Worcester College)- For academic achievement.

SIAM Student Travel Award - $650 - To present a paper at a SIAM conference on dynamical systems in Utah, USA.

Worcester College Academic Travel Grant - £300 - For the above conference.

Inaugural Microsoft Research European Science Initiative Award for the best short project in the Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre.

Nuclear Electric Prize in the Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing MSc for coming top of the year.

Mary Somerville Prize for obtaining a first in my undergraduate finals.

Major/Recent Publications:

T. Wood, C.A. Yates, D. Wilkinson and G. Rosser (2011). "Visual tracking of bacteria using the Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density Filter". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Accepted.
C.A. Yates and K. Burrage (2011). "Look before you leap: A confidence-based method for selecting species criticality whilst avoiding negative populations in τ-leaping" Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP) 134, 084109.
C.A. Yates, R. Baker, R. Erban and P.K. Maini (2011). "Refining self-propelled particle models for collective behaviour" Canadian Journal of Applied Mathematics (CAMQ) 18(3).
C. Escudero, C.A. Yates, J. Buhl, I.D. Couzin, R. Erban, I.G. Kevrekidis (2010). "Ergodic directional switching in mobile insect groups". Physical Review E 82(1) 11926.
R.E. Baker, C.A. Yates and R. Erban (2009). "From Microscopic to Macroscopic Descriptions of Cell Migration on Growing Domains ". Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 72(3) 719-762.
C.A. Yates, R. Erban, C. Escudero, I. Couzin, J. Buhl, I. Kevrekidis, P. Maini and D. Sumpter, (2009). "Inherent noise can facilitate coherence in collective swarm motion". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 106(14) 5464-5469.
Supplementary material to accompany this paper can be found here .

Teaching:

I tutor 1st and 2nd Year undergraduates at Christ Church.

I am tutoring perturbation methods inter-collegiate classes.

I have previously held a 6-hour lectureship at Somerville College teaching applied mathematics to Undergraduates.

I am part of the CETL programme and have been teaching and demonstrating Computational/Mathematical Biology and MATLAB to 1st year DPhil students at the Life Sciences and Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centres.

I also provide personal tutoring for students in the mathematical sciences with learning difficulties.

Further Details:

You can find out a bit more about me (and a lot of the same stuff!) on my other webpage: Christian Yates.

I also have a page on Academia.edu http://oxford.academia.edu/ChristianYates.

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