Dr Paul Cairns

UCLIC
Email: p.cairns@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Cairns was until recently a senior lecturer with the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University. He started there in March 1998 having come from The Technology Partnership plc an innovative engineering company based near Cambridge.

He did his doctorate with the Maths Institute at Oxford University. It is in general topology, a rather pure branch of mathematics, and revels under the title of "Boundary Properties and Construction Techniques in General Topology".
Dr Cairns has received fast stream funding from the EPSRC for research into Interactive Presentation of Mathematical Proofs. He has also done work on markov chains in modelling user interfaces with Harold Thimbleby and Matt Jones. He is looking at the following, all with a certain mathematical flavour:

• Genetic algorithms for maximal cliques
• Fractals and financial time series
• Mathematical models of trojan horses