Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant

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Name:

Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant

Email address:

p.dechant@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

Pro Vice Chancellor's Office

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

Foss-111 Lord Mayors Walk York St John University York YO31 7EX

Homepage URL:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=HOMp370AAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1

Biography

Expertise:

Algebra, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Biology, Virology, Computational Modelling, Computational Algebra

Job title:

Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences

Biography:

Editorial Board for Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras (https://link.springer.com/journal/6); Scientific Committee for the 12th International Conference on Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics, Hefei, China (2020) (http://icca10.ut.ee/); Chapter Manager for the science communication festival Pint of Science York, Hull and Leeds https://pintofscience.co.uk/; Plenary speaker: Nonlinear Algebra in Applications (Brown, ICERM, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics), November 2018 (https://icerm.brown.edu/programs/sp-f18/w3/#workshopschedule); SIAM conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, July 2019 (https://mathsites.unibe.ch/siamag19/); External PhD Examiner, Mathematics, University of Montreal

Qualifications:

MA, MMath, PhD (Cantab)

My Latest

Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 A Clifford perspective on reflection groups, root systems and ADE correspondences. In: 12th International Conference on Clifford Algebras and Their Applications in Mathematical Physics, 3-7 August 2020, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China. (Unpublished)
Twarock, Reidun, Stockley, Peter G., Bingham, Richard J., Dykeman, Eric C. and Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2020) Conservation of Genetically-Embedded Virus Assembly Instructions: A Novel Route to Antiviral Therapy. Proceedings, 50 (1). p. 87.
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2014) Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues - a 3D spinorial view of 4D exceptional phenomena. In: Algebra Seminar, 17th November 2014, University of York. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2017) A Clifford algebraic approach to reflection groups and root systems. In: Yau Institute Seminar in Geometry and Physics, 10th August 2017, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC), Tsinghua, China. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2014) Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues - a 3D spinorial view of 4D exceptional phenomena. In: 10th International Conference on Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics, 4th – 9th August 2014, Tartu, Estonia. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2019) Machine-learning a virus assembly fitness landscape. In: SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, 9th - 13th July 2019, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2016) A new construction of E8 and the other exceptional root systems. In: Algebra Seminar, 18th January 2016, Queen Mary University of London. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2014) Affinne symmetry principles for non-crystallographic systems & applications to viruses/carbon onions. In: Mathematics Seminar, 16th December 2014, Doppler Institute, Technical University, Prague. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2014) A 3D spinorial view of 4D exceptional phenomena. In: Mathematics Seminar, 12th December 2014, Charles University, Prague. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2016) A new take on polyhedral things. In: Applied Algebra, 3rd June 2016, Oxford University. (Unpublished)

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Root systems & Clifford algebras: from symmetries of viruses to E8 & ADE correspondences	63	0
2	Nature Physics Research Highlight: Know your onions	56	0
3	Clifford Algebra Unveils a Surprising Geometric Significance of Quaternionic Root Systems of Coxeter Groups	48	0
4	From the Trinity $(A_3, B_3, H_3)$ to an $ADE$ correspondence	46	28
5	Software Carpentry: Programming with Sage	44	0
6	A systematic construction of representations of quaternionic type for the polyhedral groups	40	0
7	Rank-3 root systems induce root systems of rank 4 via a new Clifford spinor construction	39	32
8	A Clifford Algebraic Framework for Coxeter Group Theoretic Computations	39	0
9	Machine-learning a virus assembly fitness landscape	37	20
10	Clifford Algebra is the Natural Framework for Root Systems and Coxeter Groups. Group Theory: Coxeter, Conformal and Modular Groups	36	0