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Curriculum Vitae: Dr J B LAWRIE
Email: jane.lawrie@brunel.ac.uk
Academic qualifications
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PhD in Applied Mathematics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ.
Thesis title: Interaction of sound with cylindrical elastic shells.
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DIC, Imperial College.
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BSc in Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT,
Employment
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Current
Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH.
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Previous positions
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
Post-doctoral Research Assistant, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol,
BS8 1TW, UK.
Awards/Nominations
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Armstrong Prize and Medal, 1988. The Henry Edward Armstrong Memorial Trust offers this award yearly
for “an outstanding piece of research or scholarship which concerns the application of scientific methods
to industrial problems, and which has been carried out in the course of studies at Imperial College for the
PhD Degree”.
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Nominated for the Vice-Chancellor's award for Teaching Excellence, 2003.
Professional affiliations
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Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
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Chartered Mathematician.
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Member of the Acoustical Society of America.
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Member of the EPSRC Mathematics Peer Review College.
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Member of the London Mathematical Society.
Collaborations
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My collaboration with I.D. Abrahams (University of Manchester) centres on the development of original and
new analytic solution methods for difficult canonical problems drawn from the field of structural acoustics.
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My collaboration with R. Kirby (Mechanical Engineering, Brunel) focuses on obtaining efficient solutions to
practical engineering problems. A novel technique for by-passing the tedious process of solving the
dispersion relations for dissipative components in HVAC (heating ventilation and air conditioning) systems
has recently been developed.
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An EPSRC Faraday Partnership has recently been awarded to I.D. Abrahams (Manchester), J.B. Lawrie
(Brunel), T. Munro (Southampton) and Photon Design. The project comprises an investigation into a
diffusion approach to modelling propagation along multi-mode fibres.
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Research students
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Dr D P Warren, 1995 – 1999. Thesis title: “The scattering of sound waves in two-dimensional ducts with
discontinuities in height and material property”.
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Dr A D Grant, 1993 – 2001 (part-time). Thesis title "Acoustic scattering in waveguides with smoothly varying
or discontinuous elastic boundaries".
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Dr I M M Guled, 1999 – 2003. Thesis title: "Acoustic transmission: waveguides with scattering or dissipative
components"
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Ms A Syed 2001 – Present:
Recent Conferences and meetings
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July 2003: Waves2003, Jyvaskyla, Finland. "Acoustic transmission through a splitter silencer: a technique
that avoids root finding"'
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June 2003: Days on Diffraction, St. Petersburg, Russia. "Acoustic transmission through a silencer with
wave-bearing boundaries".
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July 2002: IUTAM Symposium 2002/04 "On analysing the performance of a dissipative silencer: a modematching approach".
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July 2000: IUTAM Symposium 2000/10. "On the propagation and scattering of fluid-structural waves in a 3D cavity bounded by thin elastic walls".
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