Dr David Wood

Dave Wood Reader Department Senior Tutor Alumni Fellow WIHEA Office: B1.13 Phone: +44 (0)24 7652 3592 Email: David dot Wood at warwick dot ac dot uk

 

Teaching Responsibilities 2026/27:

Term 1: MA240 Modelling Nature's Nonlinearity

Term 2: MA3J3 Bifurcations, Catastrophes and Symmetry

Research Interests:
Dynamical systems, bifurcations with symmetry, applications to biology and industry.

Previous Roles:

Director of Undergraduate Studies (Mathematics): 2006-2024

Previous Department Committees:

• Undergraduate Teaching Committee
• Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC)
• First Year Exam Board
• Second Year Exam Board
• Finals Exam Board

Previous University Committees:

• Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine Education Committee (SEMEC, formally SFEC and SUGS) [Chair 2012-2016]
• Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine First Year Board of Examiners (FYBOE) [Chair 2012-2016, 2018-2019]
• Board of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine (2012-2016, 2017-2020)
• Student Learning Experience and Engagement Committee (SLEEC)
• Board of Undergraduate Studies (2012-2016)
• Warwick Active Community Programme Steering Committee (Warwick Volunteers) (to July 2024)
• Chair of the Faculty of Science Teaching and Learning Forum (2012-2016)
• Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) Management Committee (to July 2024)
• Technology Enhanced Learning Steering Group
• Various other AQSC working groups

Most relevant recent publications:

• D. Wood, Hopf Bifurcations In Three Coupled Oscillators With Internal Z2 Symmetries, Dynamics and Stability of Systems 13, pp 54-93, 1998. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681119808806254 
• D. Wood, A Cautionary Tale Of Coupling Cells With Internal Symmetries, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 11, pp 123-132, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1080/02681119808806254 
• D. Wood, D. Allwright, Optimisation Of Hydrophone Placement: A Dynamical Systems Approach, European Journal of Applied Mathematics 14, pp369-386, 2003, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956792503005175 
• M. Bayliss, R. Morris, M. Muldoon, M. Readman, L. Reynolds, I. Stewart, D. Wood, Control Of Free Length When Coiling A Helical Spring, IEE Control Theory and Applications, 148, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-cta:20010426 
• D. Wood, Making better springs using aspects of chaos theory, Proc. IMechE Vol. 220 Part C: J. Mechanical Engineering Science, 2006, https://doi.org/10.1243/095440606x79136 
• K.S. Rock, M.J. Keeling, D.A. Wood, Modelling the future of the Hawaiian honeycreeper: An ecological and epidemiological problem, Ecological Modelling 235/236,pp 26–35, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.04.004 
• K.S. Rock, D.A. Wood, M.J. Keeling, Age- and bite-structured models for vector-borne diseases, Epidemics, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2015.02.006.
• I. Stewart & D. Wood, Stable Synchronous Propagation of Signals by Feedforward Networks, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 23, pp167-204, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1137/23M1552267.
• I. Stewart & D. Wood, Stable Synchronous Propagation of Signals in Feedforward Networks of Standard Model Neurons, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 35, no 14, 2025, https:///dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218127425400036 (part of special issue)
• I. Stewart & D. Wood, Stable Synchronous Propagation in Feedforward Networks for Biped Locomotion, submitted, https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11780.
• I. Stewart & D. Wood, Stable Synchronous Propagation of Signals in Feedforward Networks of Standard Model Neurons, World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science Series B: Memristors, Dynamics and Complexity, Chapter 3, pp. 115-142, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819830633_0003.
• I. Stewart & D. Wood, Mathematics Is Not a Spectator Sport: 10 Topics to Challenge and Engage, Princeton University Press, publication date TBC.