Luke Bennetts, University of Adelaide

I am an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide. The School is one of Australia’s top maths schools, designated well above world standard in all areas of mathematics and statistics in the most recent ARC Excellence in Research for Australia assessment. The University is a member of the Group of 8 leading research-intensive universities in Australia.

I am an organiser for the recent and upcoming events:

Joint meeting of the New Zealand, Australian and American Mathematical Societies (9–13 Dec 2024, Auckland)
The ANZIAM 2024 conference (11–15 Feb 2024, Hahndorf SA)
A minisymposium on Waves in complex and multiscale media at ICIAM 2023 (20–25 Aug 2023, Tokyo)
Isaac Newton Institute Programme on Mathematical theory and applications of multiple wave scattering (Jan–June, 2023)
Multiple Wave Scattering Winter School (9–13 Jan 2023, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge)
Mathematics of Sea Ice and Ice Sheets 2022 (9–11 November, Adelaide)
Statistical and Mathematical Modelling in Combination (16–18 Nov Nov 2022, Melbourne)
Australian Academy of Science Conference on Multiscale Dynamics of the Southern Ocean (4–5 July 2022, ANU)

I am a guest editor of:

A special feature of Proceedings A on multiple wave scattering
A special issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America on Wave phenomena in periodic, near-periodic, and locally resonant systems
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A theme issue on Theory, modelling and observations of marginal ice zone dynamics

Some recent-ish research highlights:

Three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves in the Antarctic marginal ice zone during an explosive polar cyclone (Alberello et al, 2021)

Change in complex-resonant frequencies (white bullets) caused by increasing ice-shelf thickening. Background is a representation of complex-valued reflection coefficient in complex frequency space (Bennetts & Meylan, SIAM J Appl Math, 2021).

ezgif.com-video-to-gif-2 — Fastest measured ice drift speed (0.75m/s), for a pancake floe in the Antarctic marginal ice zone during a series of polar cyclones (Alberello et al, J Geophy Res, 2019)

A graded resonator array that amplifies incident water waves at selected locations (Bennetts et al., J Fluid Mech, 2018)

ezgif.com-video-to-gif — A theoretical model of water wave overwash of a step (green) vs a CFD model (Skene et al, J Fluid Mech, 2018)