A Brief CV
First Class Honours in Mechanical
Sciences, B.A. (1958), M.A. (1962)
Prizes: Rex Moir, Archibald Denny,
John Winbolt
Higher degrees: Ph.D. (1962), Sc.D.
(1977)
Research Fellowship, Peterhouse,
1961-64
Professor of Structural Mechanics,
1977-91
Senior Fellow, Science &
Engineering Research Council, 1988-93
Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics,
1991-2002 (now Emeritus Professor)
Founder and Director of Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, 1991
Centre for
Nonlinear Dynamics & its Applications, 1991-2002
This had 31 members: 3 staff, 2
industrial professors, 10 fellows, 16 post-graduates
The MSc course was recognized and
supported by EPSRC for many years
Royal Society Research Fellowships:
McRobie, Davies, Popov, Heijden
Ł2 million earned in grants &
awards
From 2002 it has become a virtual
Centre, linking researchers in many UCL Depts
Visiting
Appointments
Fulbright Research Associate,
Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford, 1962-3
Visiting Professor, Faculté des
Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1976-8
Visiting Mathematician, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, New York, 1984
IUTAM Symposia
organised at UCL
Collapse:
the buckling of structures in theory and practice, 1982
Nonlinearity
and chaos in engineering dynamics, 1993
Principal Honours
and Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1985. Elected to the Council,
OMAE Award, American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, 1985
James Alfred Ewing Medal,
Institution of Civil Engineers, 1992
Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc),
Gold Medal of the IMA for
contributions to mathematics, 2004
Industrial
Collaborations & Activities
W.S. Atkins: resonance of
articulated moorings, 1984; ships in waves, 1992
Defence Research Agency: long-term
contract on transient capsize (1989-98)
British Aerospace: flight dynamics
of the Harrier Jump-jet, 1996
SAIPEM: consultancy on the twisting
of off-shore pipelines in deep water
Chairman, Board of
Directors, ES-Consult 1995-
ES-Consult worked on tuned dampers
for
Books Published (by
John Wiley)
A General Theory of Elastic Stability, 1973
Instabilities & Catastrophes in
Science & Engineering, 1982 (Trans:
Elastic Instability Phenomena, 1984
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, 1986 (Trans:
Editor,
Philosophical Transactions (A) of the Royal Society, 1998-07
Special Issues: Three Millennium Issues, 1999, 2000. Triennial Series, 2002-
Created the new Royal Society Series on Advances
in Science, with the first book:
Advances in Astronomy,
ed. JMT Thompson,
Research Papers
About 200 papers published. Some
journals (with approx numbers of papers in each) are:
Proc.
R. Soc. Lond. (16) Int. J. Solids & Structures (5)
J.
Mech. Phys. Solids (13) Dynamics
& Stability of Systems (5)
Phil.
Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (12) Physica
D
(3)
Physics
Letters
(6) J.
Appl. Math. Phys. (ZAMP) (3)
Int. J.
Mech. Sci. (6) J. Mech. Engng Sci.
(3)
Int. J.
Bifn & Chaos (6) Physical Review
(3)
J.
Sound & Vibration (6)
Nature
(3)
Some Opening and
Keynote Lectures
General Lecture, 14th IUTAM Congress,
General Lecture, 28th British Theoretical Mechanics Meeting, Bristol, 1986
General Lecture to the General Assembly of IUTAM, London, 1986
Opening, AFOSR/ARO Conference, Nonlinear Vibrations, Blacksburg, 1987
Closing,
Fellowship of Engng, Chaos & the danger of unpredictable
failure, London, 1990
Keynote, 2nd World Congress, Computational
Mechanics, Stuttgart, 1990
General Lecture, Spring Conference, Institute of Acoustics, Southampton,
1990
Plenary, 1st European Nonlinear
Oscillations Conference, Hamburg, 1993
Plenary, Dynamics Day '94, Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest,
1994
Plenary, Conf. Theory of Ordinary & Partial Differential Equations, Dundee,
1996
Opening, Conference, Structural Dynamics, Palazzo Vecchio,
Florence, 1996
Keynote, IUTAM Symp. Applics Nonlinear ... Dynamics in Mechanics,
Cornell, 1997
Opening, IMA Conf. Bifurcations: the use and control of chaos,
Honorary Fellow,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
(DAMTP),
Lectures in the Millennium Mathematics Project for the public understanding of
mathematics in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences:
Chaos
and Fractals (22 Jan 2004) Instabilities and Catastrophe (11 Nov 2004)
Popular science lectures available online from www.xscite.com/MichaelThompson
Sixth Century Professor in Theoretical and
Applied Dynamics,
Part–time (20%), from April 2006,