Teaching

Mathematical Modelling

This is a 10 credit first year course covering many aspects of modelling real-world phenomena. It runs in the second term, and comprises two lectures a week, three problem classes and weekly problems. The course is taken by all Theoretical Physics students at York, and is also available as an optional module for Experimental Physicists and others; in the past this module has been taken by students from Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics. More details are available here.

Graduate Training

I've written three graduate training sessions that may be of interest:

• A Beginner's Guide to Linux
• How to Write a Basic Web Page
• A Beginner's Guide to LaTeX

These courses are aimed at first year Master's or PhD students and do not presume any prior knowledge or experience in the area. Each course is self-contained, and takes approximately 2-3 hours.

As well as the Linux course mentioned above, I've also written a brief description of what I consider to be some of the most useful Linux commands.

Density Functional Theory and CASTEP

My research focuses on the use of density functional theory for materials simulations, and I've written a short introduction to DFT here.