Areas of Research

There are currently 90 academic members of staff and 20 or so post-doctoral research fellows and research assistants in the Maxwell Institute. The departments involved are highly rated: in the 2001 RAE exercise, Heriot-Watt University achieved grade 5s for both Applied Mathematics and for Statistics & OR, whilst the University of Edinburgh achieved 5* in Pure Mathematics, 5 in Applied Mathematics, and 4 in Statistics & OR.

A very wide spectrum of research in mathematics and in its applications is covered by the Maxwell Institute. For convenience, the 11 research areas described below have been identified. The boundaries between these are however highly permeable.