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Professional activities

Current position:

Member of academic staff in the Applied Mathematics Group of the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, UK.

Main research interests:

Theoretical particle and nuclear physics; neural network models; optimisation problems.

More information:

University home page

Academia.edu page

Personal data

Miscellaneous links

The University of Birmingham

• University of Birmingham home page. Information about the University.
• University of Birmingham "Useful Links Page". Links to many other pages of general interest.
• School of Mathematics. Information about research, courses and people in this department.

Scientific

• The Usenet Physics FAQ gives non-technical answers to frequently asked questions about physics.
• Mathworld provides detailed information on all aspects of mathematics.
• Intute mathematics guide - a collection of useful resources for study and research.
• The Mathematical Atlas provides a gateway to information on all branches of modern mathematics.
• Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics.
• A simple puzzle to test your mathematical IQ.
• A brief history of life, the universe and everything.
• Six steps to hell - the bleak future of our planet if urgent measures are not taken to control human-driven greenhouse gas emissions.
• Danger! Time is rapidly running out to stop irreversible climate change. A scientific analysis by experts on global warming, published in August 2008, showed that we had just 100 months to avoid a catastrophic tipping point - an estimate consistent with other independent analyses.
• Bad Science - Dr. Ben Goldacre exposes pseudoscientific nonsense, bogus "alternative medicine", misuse of statistics, etc.
• "Introduction to Activistic Atheism" and The Secular Web - useful resources for debunking religion, the most pernicious form of superstition.
• 10 reasons why atheism is superior to religion - a scientist's view.

Weblog

Human rights

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See how few rights you have in countries like the US or the UK.
• American Civil Liberties Union, the US organisation that fights to defend human rights.
• Liberty, the UK organisation that fights to defend human rights.
• It is well known that routine and systematic torture is at the heart of the US so-called "war on terror".
• One example of the systematic torture being carried out at the US concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay. And another. And another, with the disgraceful complicity of the UK. A lawyer's view of the torture camp. A US army insider blows the whistle on the horrific regime of torture and human rights abuses at Guantánamo. The US torture regime has been condemned by a High Court judge in the UK, by Amnesty International, and by the UK Attorney General. Read about the true purpose of torture by the US terrorists. Many of those imprisoned illegally at Guantánamo Bay have been subjected to such brutal torture and humiliation that they are driven to kill themselves in a hunger strike.
• Appalling torture and abuse by US forces in Afganistan is widespread, just as in Iraq. Read first-hand accounts of the torture of Iraqi "detainees" (the Western media's code word for political prisoners and freedom fighters) on the Human Rights Watch website.
• The US has in fact operated torture chambers for decades, so the recent atrocities are not really so surprising. The only difference is that they are no longer so secret. These crimes are not lessened by the US attempts to hide them by declaring the torture methods used in secret CIA prisons to be state secrets.
• The UK is equally guilty of human rights violations. Read about the kidnapping of Martin Mubanga, so that he could be handed over to the American torturers.
• Harold Pinter, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, gives the most accurate assessment of the US invasion of Iraq as "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law ... inspired by a series of lies upon lies..."
• An authoritative study reported in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet estimates that over 600,000 extra deaths have occurred as a result of Bush's illegal war and occupation in Iraq.
• The illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq has made the world a more dangerous place, and innocent people everywhere, not just in Iraq, are now paying the price.
• Videos show clearly why the Iraqis hate the American occupiers.
• The Iraqi Resistance is the real war of liberation against the US occupiers and their quislings. Congratulations to the heroic Resistance fighters for their many successes!
• Among the world's most flagrant violations of human rights is Israel's brutal repression of the Palestinian people. For useful information, see Sue Blackwell's Links on Palestine and Israel..
• Following a call by Palestinian academics and intellectuals, many academics throughout the world have agreed to boycott all contacts with Israeli academic institutions. There is also a worldwide boycott of Israeli goods. Read more about the boycott. As a representative example of the worldwide campaign, read a media statement of the Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa.
• Even though the United States now has a more progressive president, the crimes of the discredited Bush regime must not be swept under the carpet. It is time that the world's most notorious war criminal and terrorist was brought to justice:

Cutting through the propaganda

• Information Clearing House, with many topical news stories.
• WantToKnow.info reports on major cover-ups, with verifiable information from reliable sources.
• Conspiracy theories? - An analysis of why disturbing revelations are widely branded "conspiracy theories", e.g. why many people ignore or refuse to believe the evidence of US government complicity in 9/11.
• The distinguished commentator George Monbiot shows how the Western media attempt to hide the US and British war crimes in Iraq. Sami Ramadani, a political exile from Saddam's regime, also writes about the blizzard of occupiers' spin.
• AfterDowningStreet.org exposes the US and UK lies that led to the illegal war and subsequent occupation of Iraq. You can read some secret Downing Street documents there.

Privacy

• Introduction to PGP. Private e-mail can easily be read by your employer or internet service provider, by hackers, and by government agencies. Learn how to protect your privacy.

Freedom of Information

• Wikileaks reveals information that governments, multinationals, etc., don't want you to know, thanks to many public-spirited whistleblowers.
• A classified US military video revealing how an Apache helicopter crew indiscriminately murdered over a dozen innocent people in Iraq in cold blood, including two Reuters news staff.
• Bush's secret bunker and how to find it.
• UK Secret bases. Here you can view secret bases throughout the UK - spy centres, missile launch pads, atomic weapons establishments, military storage depots, etc. - and get their exact grid coordinates.
• To view Israel's secret nuclear weapons plant, which they tried to hide from the world, enter the coordinates 31 00' 12'N, 35 08' 47"E in Google Earth - or simply click here. You can also watch a video showing details of the plant.

Contact addresses and numbers

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     School of Mathematics
     The University of Birmingham
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     England

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