Geoffrey Cynan Milward

  • Supervisor: Professor Peter Littlewood

  • Room: 515 Mott Building, Cavendish Laboratory

  • Telephone: (01223) 37460

  • Email: gcm24@zzzcam.ac.uk deleting the letters zzz, this is to try to defeat the automatic email gathering programs. (Some hope!)

    Research Interests

  • Strongly correlated electron systems.

  • Ginzberg-Landau theories of phase transitions

  • Quantum mechanics expressed in probability densities, with Professor Colin Wilkin at University College London.

    Teaching

    2004-5
  • Part II Relativity Electrodynamics and Light
  • Part II Quantum Condensed Matter

    Previous Years

  • Supervisor for IA Mathematics for Natural Sciences
  • Demonstrator for IB Advanced Physics: Example Classes in Mathematical Physics

    Publications

  • GC Milward, MJ Calderon & PB Littlewood Electronically soft phases in manganites;
    Nature 433 (Feb 2005) 607-610

  • GC Milward & C Wilkin The Quantum Probability Equation: III Peturbing in the Enegry;
    J Phys A. 37 3 (2004) 989-996.

  • GC Milward & C Wilkin The Quantum Probability Equation: II Scattering State Perturbation Theory;
    J Phys A. 34 24 (2001) 5101-5110.

  • GC Milward & C Wilkin The Quantum Probability Equation: I Bound State Perturbation Theory;
    J Phys A. 33 41 (2000) 7353-7362

    The papers written jointly with Professor Wilkin were presented by him at the 2002 Graftavellen meeting, PS version here

    Professional Memberships

  • General Representative of the Securities and Futures Association.
  • Associate Member of the British Computer Society.
  • Student Member of the Institute of Physics.

    Prizes and Awards

  • Global Finance's 1995 "Derivative Superstar", for US dollar swap trading. The selection being based on "the result of interviews with executive recruiters, peers, competitors, clients and the superstars themselves..."
  • 1999 University of London prize for Mathematics. This is the "Sir John Lubbock" prize awarded to the top graduating mathematician amongst all the London Colleges.
  • University College London Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1999 Medal. The medal citation concluded " In a year with several strong candidates he is one of the very best students the faculty has graduated in the last 20 years." Which I trust reflects well on me, rather than less well on UCL.
  • Worlds Best Dad Award, from my daughter Elizabeth, on Father's Day in 2004 as she felt I had not won any awards recently.

    List of useful sites

  • Elizabeth's home page, with funny photo of her Dad.
  • The TCM home page
  • The NRICH Maths Project Secondary mathematics teaching project
  • LANL Preprint Service Los Almos National Lab's preprint service
  • Reviews of Modern Physics Review articles of current physics
  • Physics Uspekhi Russian Academy of Sciences physics review journal
  • Web of Science Paper citation index
  • Physics Review Letters Clue in the title!
  • Nasdaq stock quotes, not physics - but you have to fund research somehow

    An informal CV

    I am married to Anne Milward, a mathematics teacher at Shenfield High School. We have two children Jonathan, age 16 (more an adult now!) at Southend High School for Boys , and Elizabeth, 13, at Shenfield High School. Elizabeth is bravely putting up with having a mother who is teacher at her school. It cannot be easy ...
    We also have a cat called Tickles who is 11 and a Norfolk terrier called Spenser who is now two years old and an integral memeber of the family.
    as he was as a tiny pup and more recent, note the blurred wagging tail.

    Enough about Norfolk's back to me! I was born in Newmarket in 1959, so I have not travelled far in space, but some way in time. This is how I have spent some of the last 40 (ish) years...

    1969-1977 Millfield School , Street, Somerset & Beauchamps School, Wickford, Essex.
    Eleven 'O' Levels including Mathematics, French and English. Four 'A' levels: Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics and Statistics. Distinction in Mathematics Scholarship paper. Pass in Use of English. Represented school at chess, bridge, hockey and orienteering. Second in 1974 county orienteering championships.

    1978-1981 Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
    MA in Mathematics & Computer Science, BA awarded in 1981. I was Editor of the college magazine, which was great fun. I represented the college at bridge and was captain of the 'B' dart's team but my proudest boast is that I was a regular member of the University ten pin bowling team. However as there was no match against Oxford we were never to receive our blues.

    1995-1999 University & Birkbeck Colleges, University of London.
    MSci in Mathematics and Physics. Part time study at Birkbeck, 1995-7, then full time at University College, 1997-9. Class representative on staff student committee, committee member of Birkbeck Physics Society. I was nominated for both the London University Mathematics Prize (which I won) and the London University Physics Prize (which I did not).

    1999 - Present Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
    Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, the maths part III, awarded June 2000.
    Now I am a PhD student in the Theory of Condensed Matter Group at the Cavendish Laboratory, supervised by Professor Littlewood.

    I also had to earn a living, this is how

    1995-1996 Bayerische Landesbank, London Branch. Head of Derivative Trading
    Joined as senior dealer running US dollar book and structured products in all currencies traded in London. In December 1995 I was promoted to head of derivative trading. I was responsible for a team of dealers trading interest rate and currency swaps, interest rate options, and structured products, in all currencies traded out of London.

    1991-1995 Daiwa Europe Bank, London. Associate Director, Head of Financial Engineering
    Joined in 1991 as US dollar book runner for medium term swaps, interest rate options, and other derivatives. In February 1992 I was promoted to number two on the desk, and finally to desk head in December 1992 when I was given overall responsibility for medium term trading. As desk head I was involved in the selection and installation of computer support and information systems in front and back office and developed many of the pricing and risk management models used by the bank.
    I remained the US dollar book runner until September 1994 when I relinquished day to day trading responsibility, and formed the structured products group. The group, whilst not trading actively in the interbank market, intermediated between corporate customers and the generic product books. The structuring group was charged with increasing the variety of product that could be offered to customers and the exploitation of tax, cross instrument, or other market anomalies for the banks own account.

    1990-1991 Westdeutche Landesbank London Branch. Manager, Swaps
    Hired to run medium term US dollar swaps book. I was a member of the global derivative systems strategy committee advising senior management on the development of risk management procedures and systems. The London office was closed in February 1991 but rather than accept the offer of US dollar and sterling book runner in Dusseldorf I joined Daiwa Europe.

    1988-1990 Saudi International Bank, London. Swaps Dealer
    After having worked as a computer consultant developing and installing an off balance sheet trading and risk management system for Saudi International, I joined the swaps desk as a junior dealer in 1988. I was initially responsible for structuring sterling and US dollar asset packages and in February 1989 took over trading the US dollar swap book.

    1983-1988 Contract Computer Consultant. Analyst / Programmer
    Working as a computer consultant mostly for Softbridge Europe Ltd. in the design and development of a PC based off balance sheet trading and risk management system. The programming was completed in 'C', with the mathematical models prototyped using spreadsheet packages. Other contracts included: the development of money transfer and balance reporting modules for a corporate treasury workstation; maintenance and enhancements to an IBM mainframe revolving credit system; and the implementation of a mortgage account system.
    I programmed in C, COBOL, IBM 370 assembler, and FORTRAN. The consulting work was primarily with banks and often involved the use of formal analysis methods, for example structured systems analysis was used in the design of the money transfer system.

    1981-1983 Prudential Assurance Company, London. Actuarial Trainee
    Immediately after college I worked on an actuarial department as a trainee, using computer models to calculate contribution rates for companies to fund pension schemes. I did study for some of the exams, but never took it further.

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