Dr. Derek Raine
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Outreach
- Chair of theBA Leicester and Leicestershire Branch

- Lectures for Schools

-The beginnings of Time By looking at astronomical objects as the fossilized record we reconstruct the evolution of the Universe
-The Origins of Life Theories of how life on Earth began
-Ants and Butterflies in the Game of Life - simple examples of how complex systems from crime waves to stock markets can be modeled

- Royal Society Millennium Fellow: Science Futures

- Undergraduate Courses taught:

-Mathematics for Physical Sciences
-Life in the Universe
-Elementary Particle Physics
-Elementary Particles: the standard model
-Black Holes
-Biophysics (neural networks)
-Physics at Work
-Physics Communication
-Special Topics Internet Journal

- Recent projects

-Fractal Football
-2-D life
-Self-organised criticality in accretion discs