Associate Professor Geoff Mercer Visiting Fellow BSc PhD Adel. School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences UNSW @ ADFA Canberra   ACT   2600 AUSTRALIA Phone: Fax: +61 2 6268 8786 Email: g.mercer@adfa.edu.au Location: ANU

Research Interests:

Applied Mathematical Modelling - Industrial Mathematics, Wool Scouring, Exercise Physiology, Determining optimal path in a threat environment

Web: www.pems.adfa.edu.au/~gnm

Biography

Born in Adelaide 1962.
BSc(Hons) Adelaide 1984.
PhD Adelaide 1993.
Employed by UNSW @ ADFA since 1993

• Research Fellow Jan 1993 - May 2000
• Lecturer (0.8 time) May 2000 - June 2002
• Senior Lecturer (0.8 time) June 2002 March 2008
• Associate Professor (0.8 time) March 2008 to present

Teaching

Engineering Mathematics
Differential Equations
Optimization

Research

Industrial Mathematics
Combustion
Bushfires
Poroelasticity
Fluid Dynamics

Research Collaborators

Harvinder Sidhu (UNSW @ ADFA)
Steve Barry (UNSW @ ADFA)
Rod Weber (UNSW @ ADFA)
Tim Marchant (University of Wollongong)
Graeme Wake (Massey University, New Zealand)
Plant Protection Chemistry New Zealand

Publications

Grants

Students

• Roslyn Hickson PhD ongoing
  "Modelling Weed Spread"
  (with S.I. Barry and H.S. Sidhu)
• Richard Pennifold, MSc ongoing
  "Applications of Dynamical Systems"
  (with Dr H.S. Sidhu)
• James Caunce, PhD completed 2007
  "Mathematical Models of Wool Scouring"
  (with Dr S.I. Barry)
• Vladimir Gubernov PhD completed 2003
  "Instabilities in Combustion"
  (with Dr H.S. Sidhu and A/Prof R.O. Weber)
• John Roumeliotis, PhD completed 2000
  "A Boundary Integral Method Applied to Stokes Flow"

Memberships

Australian Mathematics Society
Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM)
Engineering Mathematics Group
Combustion Institute
Society for Mathematical Biology

Personal

My family
My sport (rogaining, orienteering, cross country, skiing)