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She was a Member of the Government Advisory Expert Group on Women in STEM, 2009-2011, member of the National Steering Committee for the WISE Campaign (Women into Science and Engineering), 1997–2000 and a member of the European Mathematical Society's Committee for Women in Mathematics, 2004–2010. She
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Having been the only girl in her Further Mathematics A-level class, in a minority on her undergraduate and postgraduate courses and finding that she encountered very few women in academic positions during her studies, she became active in encouraging and supporting women to go into STEM. She has
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Her research interests are in applications of pure mathematics to the physical sciences. She has worked in applications of geometry to robotics, numerical computation of highly oscillatory integrals and dynamical systems.
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was founding chair of the London Mathematical Society's Women in Mathematics Committee in 1999. The committee was awarded the inaugural Royal Society Athena Prize for Diversity in STEM in 2016.
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developed mentoring schemes, run outreach activities and organised conferences and lectures to provide examples of role models to younger women. From 1994 she was active in the organisation
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Relf, Simon; Hobbs, David (1999). "The recruitment and selection of new teachers of mathematics: the needs of secondary schools versus the teacher training agenda".
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Theory and numerical evaluation of oddoid and evenoid integrals: oscillatory cuspoid integrals with odd and even polynomial phase functions.
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An adaptive contour code for the numerical evaluation of the oscillatory cuspoid canonical integrals and their derivatives
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Theory of axially symmetric cusped focusing: numerical evaluation of a bessoid integral by an adaptive contour algorithm.
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European Women in Mathematics: Proceedings of the 13th General Meeting, University of Cambridge, UK, 3-6 September 2007
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From 2014–2017 Hobbs was Chair of the Committee of Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences in the UK (HoDoMS).
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European Women in Mathematics: Proceedings of the eighth general meeting, ICTP, Trieste 12–17 December 1997
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in Bristol. She is presently Academic Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing at
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Numerical Evaluation of Cuspoid and Bessoid Oscillating Integrals for Applications in Chemical Physics
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International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 18 (8): 2207-2222.
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in 2001. In 2010 she became head of the Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics at the
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On the Classification and Bifurcation of Multigerms of Mappings from the Plane to Space
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Bifurcations of the global stable set of a planar endomorphism near a cusp singularity.
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both encouraged her to consider postgraduate study. She did a PhD 1989–1993 at the
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On Versal Unfoldings of Singularities for General Two-dimensional Spatial Motions
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Singularities of general one-dimensional Motions of the Plane and Space.
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supervised by Chris Gibson on applications of singularity theory in
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The European Mathematical Society Committee Women and Mathematics
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Her first academic appointment was as a teaching fellow at the
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Singularities of General Two-Dimensional Motions of the Plane
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https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/catherine-hobbs
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Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
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Local Pictures for General Two-parameter Planar Motions
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to the physical sciences. She has a strong interest in
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Kirk N P, Connor J N L, Curtis P R, Hobbs C A. (2000)
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Since 2017, Hobbs has served as vice president of the
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Universities must equip students for new challenges
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Catherine Hobbs, Mathematician.
Bristol, UK
University of Warwick
University of Liverpool
Mathematics
Singularity theory
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/catherine-hobbs
FIMA
CMath
Coventry University
singularity theory
science policy
women in STEM fields
University of Exeter
mathematics education
School Mathematics Project
University of Warwick
Christopher Zeeman
Caroline Series
University of Liverpool
robotics
University of Nottingham
Oxford Brookes University
University of Auckland
University of the West of England
Coventry University
London Mathematical Society
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

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