| RefNo | EC/2000/24 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | MacKay, Robert Sinclair: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed on separate sheet of paper, then pasted onto certificate |
| Citation | Professor MacKay's main achievements have been the discovery of a renormalisation fixed point governing the break-up of invariant circles for area-preserving maps and a sliding-pinning transition in solid-state physics, the construction of surfaces of locally minimal flux governing transport in Hamiltonian systems and the development of a rigorous criterion for non-existence of invariant tori. These studies together with major developments in Hamiltonian dynamics have deepened our understanding of a wide variety of topics including chaotic behaviour and equilibrium states of systems with strong electron-phonon coupling |
| AccessStatus | Closed |