David S Broomhead was a British mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and was professor of applied mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.
11 Facts About David Broomhead
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David Broomhead completed his thesis Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields in 1976.
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David Broomhead held at two-year NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Physics at the University of Kyoto, in K Tomita's group.
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In 1983, David Broomhead began working in the Signal Processing group at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, becoming Senior Principal Scientific Officer.
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David Broomhead held visiting positions at University College London, the University of Oxford and Hiroshima University.
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David Broomhead was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, a member of the IMA Council from 1998 and was Chair of the Editorial Board of Mathematics Today from 2002.
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In Japan, David Broomhead began to work seriously on applied nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
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David Broomhead worked initially on eye movement control with Richard Abadi.
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David Broomhead developed a deep interest in hybrid systems and asynchronous processes, founding the Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational and Dynamical Analysis.
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David Broomhead met his wife Eleanor at Merton College, and they had one son, Nathan.
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David Broomhead died suddenly on 24 July 2014 at the National Hospital in London.