Peter Howard Haynes (born 23 July 1958) is a British

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

in the Faculty of Mathematics at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. He is a Fellow of

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the R ...

and served as Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) from 2005 to 2015. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and

(B.A. 1979, M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1984).

Research

His research includes

fluid dynamics In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...

and

atmospheric dynamics Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agriculture, ...

References

Living people 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians British fluid dynamicists Cambridge mathematicians Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge 1958 births People educated at Royal Grammar School, Guildford Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge {{UK-mathematician-stub