DrNathan Duignan
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Science
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Symplectic and Poisson geometry – structure, integrability, and reduction.
- Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamics – stability, invariants, and geometric flows.
- Volume-preserving and contact dynamical systems – with applications to plasma and fluid dynamics.
- Geometric models in plasma physics – especially magnetic confinement and quasisymmetric stellarators.
- Mathematical foundations of fusion energy – connecting geometric mechanics with computational and experimental plasma research.
- Integrable and near-integrable systems – perturbation methods, KAM theory, and geometric phases.