On 9th May 2017, Professor Peter Clarkson celebrated his 60th birthday whilst attending a workshop on “Applied and computational complex analysis” at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh.
The ICMS staff and workshop organisers arranged for a special birthday cake which was decorated to illustrate the 60 roots of two polynomials. These polynomials are known as “Generalised Okamoto polynomials”, first derived by Noumi and Yamada in 1999, and the remarkable, symmetric structure of their roots was described in a paper by Peter in 2003.
During the workshop Peter gave a public lecture on “Rogue waves, tsunamis and solitons”. Dr Alfredo Deano, Dr Ana Loureiro and Professor Elizabeth Mansfield gave lectures at the workshop.
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- Prof. Peter Clarkson with the special birthday cake.
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- Prof. Peter Clarkson giving a public lecture on ‘Rogue Waves, Tsunamis and Solitons’
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- Workshop attendees