Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant

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Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant

Email:

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:

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 (2021) Viruses, polytopes and machine learning. In: Nankai Symposium on Mathematical Dialogues, 2-13 August 2021, Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (via Zoom).
Fatehi, Farzad, Bingham, Richard J., Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010, Stockley, Pete G. and Twarock, Reidun (2021) Therapeutic Interfering Particles Exploiting Viral Replication and Assembly Mechanisms Show Promising Performance: A Modelling Study. arXive. (Submitted)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 and He, Yang-Hu (2021) Machine-learning a virus assembly fitness landscape. PLOS ONE, 16 (5). e0250227.
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2020) Mathematical and computational modelling in Mathematical Virology. In: Plymouth Maths, 3rd December 2020, Plymouth. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2021) Clifford spinors and root system induction: H4 and the Grand Antiprism. Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, 31 (57).
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 and Twarock, Reidun (2021) Models of viral capsid symmetry as a driver of discovery in virology and nanotechnology. The Biochemist, 43 (1). pp. 20-24.
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)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Root systems & Clifford algebras: from symmetries of viruses to E8 & ADE correspondences	109
2	Nature Physics Research Highlight: Know your onions	97
3	From the Trinity $(A_3, B_3, H_3)$ to an $ADE$ correspondence	83	33
4	Clifford Algebra Unveils a Surprising Geometric Significance of Quaternionic Root Systems of Coxeter Groups	81
5	Machine-learning a virus assembly fitness landscape	73	30
6	Software Carpentry: Programming with Sage	72
7	Rank-3 root systems induce root systems of rank 4 via a new Clifford spinor construction	71	38
8	A novel conformal geometric algebraic construction of the modular and braid groups	69
9	A Clifford Algebraic Framework for Coxeter Group Theoretic Computations	67
10	Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues - a 3D spinorial view of 4D exceptional phenomena	58	6