I am a Full Professor (as of July 1, '08) in the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of Western Ontario and a Principal Scientist in the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra (ORCCA). Email me at reid@uwo.ca or by the more primitive means listed here.

Publications (pdf file) Conference Presentations etc (pdf file) Courses (including am505) Research Opportunities A Description of my Research Area Links My House

With my Students: Robin Scott, Wenqin Zhou, Wenyuan Wu (top) and Yang Zhang (bottom right)

Research

• Algorithmic approaches to nonlinear mathematics.
• Creation, theoretical development, implementation of new geometric, algebraic and symbolic-numeric algorithms for nonlinear PDE.
• Key Words:  Nonlinear PDE, Jet spaces, Analysis, Grobner Bases, Differential Algebra, Commutative Algebra, Overdetermined systems, Lie groups and Lie pseudogroups, Differential Geometry, Algorithms, Formal Power Series Solutions.