This site is no longer updated, it is more-or-less in the same state it was in on September 10, 2007.

Many thanks to the nice people in the University of Southampton School of Mathematics who hosted versions of this site from June 1996 until September 2007; quite extraordinary considering that I stopped working there at the end of 1998 and left the UK at the end of 2003!

The boring postcard gallery has been split into a boring postcard gallery and Surf [18/11/06], Miscellaneous [27/12/06], Kite [28/12/06], Water [29/12/06] and Sculpture by the Sea [17/12/06] photo galleries have been added.

Updated 04/05/06: added note to point that this page was updated on 04/05/06 (but not at 01:02:03 04/05/06).

Until the end of 2003 I worked in OCIAM, a part of the Mathematical Institute in the University of Oxford. After that, I returned home to Australia and went surfing (which is pretty much what I've been doing ever since).

I also have an official OCIAM web page (it's not very exciting) and an official Mathematical Institute web page (it's even less exciting).

I am now based in North Bondi and working four months a year in OCIAM and the other eight months in Sydney. This year I have been doing some part-time teaching for the School of Finance and Economics at UTS in Sydney.

If you are really desperate, you could look at some pictures of my car (which has just emigrated to Australia!) and read a brief account of its history.

Here's why I needed a car in the UK: click here to see my nomination for the most imaginative work of fiction so far this century; I was going to remove this link, because I hadn't actually caught a train in the UK for over 3 years, but on September 26, 2006 I went to catch the 8.15am Virgin train to Southampton from Oxford and the bloody thing was still running 38 minutes late!

Once you've tired of that, you could:

watch an irritating ad and then a short video involving a large wave, a very lucky surfer and an out-of-control jet ski;
find out about the Oxford Centre for Computational Finance;
find out about Oxford's MSc in Mathematical Finance;
find out about the Mathematical Finance Group in OCIAM;
find out about the journal Applied Mathematical Finance;
read a (possibly out of date) list of my publications;
read about my research interests;
download some lecture notes about PDEs Green's and Generalised Functions (120 pages, in pdf);

hunt for space aliens at

find out about North Sydney AUSSI Masters (Inc.) swimming club;
find out about COSC (City of Oxford Swimming Club).

looking at some animated dolphins;
playing find the fish - an unnecessary interactive learning experience;
reading some mathematical tables; (with a critique by a Czech Logician);
looking at some really boring post cards;
looking at a few of the surf photos I've taken over the last 3 years;
reading an urgent warning to the Welsh;
reading some true but implausible news from Southend-On-Sea; (with an eye-witness account);
reading about a shocking crime in Banbury;
reading a bizarre tale involving two biologists, a herd of moose and bear droppings;
reading about the world's luckiest gold fish;
revising the correct procedure should your golf-ball land too close to an alligator!!!

a page about Southend United FC;
the When Saturday Comes site;
some thoughts on the uselessness of pi;
the Center for Duck Studies;

alt.duck.quack.quack.quack;
alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb;

a completely unnecessary load of pseudo-corporate cobblers---my ex-department's deep and meaningless mission statement as it appeared prior to February 5 1998.

Written in HTML and no longer updated by Jeff Dewynne.

Most recent updates: 09/09/07, 17/01/07, 28/12/06, 17/11/06, 24/09/06, 18/08/06, 01/08/06, 02/06/06, 04/05/06 (but not at 01:02:03), 06/3/06, 05/12/05, 05/11/05, 15/10/5, 7/6/5, 5/5/5, 3/4/5, 4/8/4, 1/1/4, 3/9/3, 3/7/3, 30/6/03, 3/3/3, 1/2/3 and 31/1/3. Other interesting update dates: 11/11/02, 08/08/02, 20/02/2002 (not at 20:02 however), 10/11/01, 20/01/2001, 1/1/1 and 9/9/99. [Honest, I save my updates for interesting dates.]