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I am currently a Research Engineer at Toshiba TRL, and a visiting fellow of the School of Mathematics of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
Last year, I was a research visitor at the MPIPKS in Dresden Germany and an active member of the Dynamical Systems and Social Dynamics group.
BSc (Hons) Mathematical Physics (Nottingham University 2007)
PhD in Applied Mathematics (Bristol University 2011)
My PhD supervisor was Carl Dettmann
Birthplace: Nicosia, Cyprus, Nationality: Greek Cypriot
Research Interests
My research interests span across a variety of topics as I am constantly trying to expand my horizons to new but somewhat related directions to my previous works.
During my Phd I specialized on the escape properties of "open" chaotic dynamical systems and in particular mathematical billiards. Open here referees to systems whose content may escape through some pre-specified hole. Such investigations are both of mathematical and physical interest as they offer a kind of spectroscopy into the corresponding closed system's dynamics. This research topic originates from different chapters of chaotic dynamics such as statistical mechanics and ergodic theory, where it is often more useful to think in terms of the macroscopic observable behaviours rather than particular microscopic states.
Nowadays I am interested on the impact of boundaries on fully connected random geometric networks. As it turns out, boundaries are very important, and can be characterised in terms of individual components such as corners, edges and faces. This research topic has strong mathematical connections to percolation theory and has recently received much attention in the area of wireless communications and multi-hop radio networks.
Through some vivid group discussions facilitated by the excellent research environment of the MPIPKS, I have also become interested in the dynamic properties of reflecting quantum wavepackets across different interfaces. This research topic has physical connections to fundamental optical phenomena like the Goos Hänchen effect with potential applications in Condensed matter physics.
Contact Details
Email: maxog@bristol.ac.uk
URL: www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maxog/
Phone: +44 (0) 117 906 0700
Mailing address: Telecommunications Research Laboratory 32 Queen Square, Bristol, BS1 4ND, UK.