Staff Profile

Dr Steve Lakin
AC3 (Senior Lecturer)
Mathematical Sciences Department

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8331 8659
Fax: +44 (0)20 8331 8665
Room: QM314
Email:

Qualifications
BA, MA (Cantab), PhD (Leicester), Innovation and Excellence in Student Assessment (Glamorgan)

External recognition
To be updated shortly.

Awards
Innovation and Excellence in Student Assessment (University of Glamrogan 2010)

Biography
Acting as First Year Personal Tutor, Alumni Co-Ordinator and MathSoc Co-Ordinator, I am passionate about student support and the student experience, and am always looking for ways to develop my teaching. My particular areas of interest are in cryptography, number theory and the history and relevance of mathematics to our daily lives. I am the author of successful books promoting an understanding of basic mathematics, and I specialise in explaining the use and relevance of mathematics to those less confident. Outside of University life, I have the misfortune to support Nottingham Forest football club, I watch a variety of sports, am desperate to rediscover my pool-hustling form, and I make vain attempts to learn Russian.

Research/Scholarly interests
Author for foundation level mathematics books, research has included group theory, complexity, wireless networks and energy management.

School roles
Alumni coordinator

Course Coordinator 2012/13
Coding and Cryptography
Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
Linear Algebra

Selected publications
Some selected publications:

? Steve Lakin: How to understand statistics, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0273743873 (2011)
? Steve Lakin: How to improve your maths skills, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0273732839 (2010)
? Stephen R. Lakin and Richard M. Thomas: Space complexity and word problems of groups, Groups-Complexity-Cryptology, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 261-273 (2009)
? H Al-Madfai, A.Akinwale, S.Lakin, S.Thomas, S.Lloyd: Using the Hierarchial Profiling Approach (HPA) forecasts of multi-year half-hourly energy consumption data as a tool in energy management, 29th International Symposium on Forecasting, Hong Kong (2009)
? S N I Mount, Robert M Newman, S R Lakin, R J Low, Elena I Gaura: ASQue: an agent communication language for ad-hoc wireless sensor networks. EUROMICRO-SEAA 2005: 404-415 (2005)

Further publications to follow shortly

Recent conference presentations
To be updated shortly

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
University of Greenwich
Old Royal Naval College
Park Row
London SE10 9LS
UK