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 (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 (Unpublished)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 (Unpublished)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 (Unpublished)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)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2014) Recent developments in affine symmetry principles for non-crystallographic systems. In: Open Statistical Physics Annual Meeting, 26th March 2014, Open University, Milton Keynes. (Unpublished)
Dechant, Pierre-Philippe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4010 (2015) Surprises in icosahedral symmetry. In: Mathematics Seminar, 6th May 2015, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. (Unpublished)

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Nature Physics Research Highlight: Know your onions	48	0
2	Root systems & Clifford algebras: from symmetries of viruses to E8 & ADE correspondences	47	0
3	From the Trinity $(A_3, B_3, H_3)$ to an $ADE$ correspondence	40	22
4	Clifford Algebra Unveils a Surprising Geometric Significance of Quaternionic Root Systems of Coxeter Groups	38	0
5	Software Carpentry: Programming with Sage	37	0
6	Rank-3 root systems induce root systems of rank 4 via a new Clifford spinor construction	31	20
7	A systematic construction of representations of quaternionic type for the polyhedral groups	31	0
8	Machine-learning a virus assembly fitness landscape	30	13
9	A Clifford Algebraic Framework for Coxeter Group Theoretic Computations	30	0
10	Clifford Algebra is the Natural Framework for Root Systems and Coxeter Groups. Group Theory: Coxeter, Conformal and Modular Groups	29	0