Alan A. Coley 

University Research Professor
Mathematics and Statistics

Education  

• 1976 BSc, First Class, Sheffield
• 1977 Mathematical Tripos part III, Cambridge
• 1980, PhD, Queen Mary College, University of London

Publications

• Dynamical Systems and Cosmology, A. A. Coley, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 2003
• Bäcklund and Darboux transformations:the geometry of soliton theory, eds. C. Rogers, D. Levi, A. Coley, R. Milson, and P. Winternitz, CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2001
• Deterministic chaos in general relativity, eds. D. Hobill, A.B. Burd and A.A. Coley, NATO ASI Series B, vol 332, Plenum Press, New York, 1994
• Proceedings of the Second Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, ed. A. Coley, University of Toronto Press, 1986

More than 185 refereed journal articles
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Mentorship

• Supervised more than 24 Postdoctoral Fellows
• Supervised 5 PhD students
• Supervised 11 MSc students
• Actively involved in the development of graduate studies, and supervision of PhD students at Las Villas Central University, Santa Clara, Cuba

Awards and distinctions

• 2005-2010, University Research Professor, Dalhousie University (the title of University Research Professor is granted to no more than 15 Dalhousie faculty members who have achieved distinction in scholarship)    

Website
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Areas of Interest: 

Mathematical cosmology, general relativity, higher dimensional space-times, self-similarity, dynamical systems

Dr. Coley and his group of post-doctoral fellows and graduate students contribute to a variety of areas of cosmology and general relativity with much of their work centered around the Enstein Field Equations. The research combines techniques from differential geometry (the geometry of smoothly curved space) and differential equations (the mathematics of motion) with a deep understanding and intuition for physical principles.