Curriculum Vitae

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Awards

2021:

George Pólya Award from the Mathematical Association of America,

Postgraduate Outreach Prize for the MSP department, Newcastle University,

MSP Essay Prize for International Women’s Day

Outreach

2022:

A Journey into Non-Western Mathematics, SciBar 2022 (talk)

2021:

Book Review, London Mathematical Society Magazine (2021) (article)

Enheduanna (2021) International Women’s Day Event Essay (essay)

2020:

A Crash Course in Reading Ancient Egyptian and its Mathematics, (2020) Postgraduate Seminar, Newcastle Mathematics, Physics and Statistics Department (talk)

Chaos in the Magnetic Pendulum, (2020) Mathematics Today Magazine (article)

2019:

Being a Female Theoretical Physicist (2019) Ribston Hall High School for Girls, Gloucestershire (talk)

On the scattering of electromagnetic waves by fractal screens: a Rayleigh-Sommerfeld approach (2019) Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Manchester University (talk)

Race to the Bottom: Finding the Coldest Temperature Possible, SciBar 2019 (talk)

2018:

University of Manchester (talk)

Administration Roles

EDI representative, British Society of the History of Mathematics (2020-Present),

Newcastle University Historic Computing Committee (2020-Present),

PhD Mentor for new Postgraduate Research Students (2020-Present)

PhD Student Representative for Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University (2019-2020),

Organiser of Applied Mathematics Seminars, Newcastle University (2019-2022),

Student Representative for Salford University Physics Department (2014-2017)

Talks/ Posters

DAMOP 2022

BEC2021 (poster)

DAMOP talk 2021 (add title),

Vortex States within Expanding Bose-Einstein Condensates (2021) UK Quantum Fluids Webinar (talk)

Dynamics Day 2020 (poster)

On the Expansion of Bose-Einstein Condensates: One Dimensional Systems and Solitons (2019), Vortices, Dynamics, Turbulence and Related Phenomena in Quantum Fluids, Natal, Brazil ()

 Electromagnetic scattering problems on perfectly-conducting complex domains: from Rayleigh-Sommerfeld integrals toward fractal screens , Christian, JM  and Middleton-Spencer, HAJ (2019), in: 14th International Conference on the Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation (WAVES 2019), 25th – 30th August 2019, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

On the scattering of electromagnetic waves by fractal screens: a Rayleigh-Sommerfeld approach

On the Nth roots of –1 class of problem: fractal basin boundaries in the Argand plane, Middleton-Spencer, HAJ and Christian, JM (2019). Joint Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and MathsJam event, University of Manchester, UK

Publications

2021

H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer, A. D. G. Orozco, L. Galantucci, M. Moreno, N. G. Parker, L. A. Machado, V. S. Bagnato & C. F. Barenghi, Evidence of Strong Quantum Turbulence in Bose Einstein Condensates (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08544)

H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer, N. G. Parker, L. Galantucci & C. F. Barenghi, The effect of vortex structure within expanding Bose-Einstein Condensates (In prep)

2020

H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer, N. G. Parker, L. Galantucci & C. F. Barenghi (2020) Characterising arbitrary dark solitons in trapped one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates, https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/133/16001 (Invited paper)

J. M. Christian & H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer (2020) On the Nth Roots of –1 and Complex Basin Boundaries: Fractals from Newton–Raphson, The College Mathematics Journal, 51:2, 95-104, DOI: 10.1080/07468342.2020.1703452 (This won the Journal Prize for best paper in 2020)

2019

J. M. Christian and H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer, “Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves by Cantor Screens: Rayleigh-Sommerfeld Integrals on Complex Domains,” in 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2019), paper ej_p_14. (Conference paper)

J. M. Christian and H. A. J. Middleton-Spencer, “Electromagnetic Diffraction by Fractal Dusts, Triangles and Carpets: A Kirchhoff Approach to Circulation,” in 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2019), paper ej_p_20. (Conference paper)