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The Applied Mathematics group encourages close collaboration with other departments such as biochemistry, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, veterinary sciences and in areas such as complexity, composites, environment, nanomaterials and nanoscience.
We also work with industry. For example, materials science researchers have worked with Hewlett Packard to mathematically model bi-stable liquid crystal displays (LCDs) which would require a voltage to change their display state but not to maintain it.
The school is active in scientific computing and has helped ensure a significant investment by the University in high-performance computing. The increasing miniaturisation of microprocessors according to Moore’s Law means that in 10 to 15 years chips will be operating at the quantum level even at room temperature. The transistors that make up a processor will be not much larger than molecules and the movement of individual electrons will be the basis of computation.
New results in dynamical systems, meanwhile, have offered insight into previously hopeless problems. Researchers at Bristol have been able to explain how the giant planets trapped their moons, and offer solutions for mixing fluids at the scales of microns.
