Professor Chris Good MA DPhil

Professor Chris Good, Head of School

School of Mathematics
Head of School
Professor of Mathematics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 6201
Email
c.good@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Mathematics
Watson Building
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Chris Good is Professor of Mathematics at the University 麻豆精选. He is the author of over 50 research articles in general topology, set-theoretic topology, topological dynamics and mathematical education.  He regularly collaborates with mathematicians around the world, including colleagues from Mexico, New Zealand, Poland and the US, as well as from Oxford, and has organised conferences in Birmingham, Oxford and Cambridge.  Chris has worked with several postdoctoral fellows and supervised a number of graduate students.  If you are interested in working with him, he would be interested in hearing from you.

Chris has a long standing interest in teaching and was awarded the first Head of School’s Excellence in Teaching Award.  He played a leading role in the development of the School’s new curriculum, championing the introduction of problem based learning and core skills.

Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  He has an Erdős number of 3 and an Erdős-Bacon number of 7. Since April 2019, Chris has been Deputy Dean of the Jinan University – University 麻豆精选 Joint Institute and in August 2020 he became Head of School for the School of Mathematics.

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Qualifications

  • DPhil in Mathematics, University of Oxford, 1992
  • MA, University of Oxford, 1991
  • BA in Mathematics, University of Oxford, 1988

Teaching

Semester 1

LM Advanced Topics in Analysis

Postgraduate supervision

Chris Good鈥檚 early research was in the construction of counterexamples (often using set-theoretic methods) especially around the Dowker space question and the behaviour of normality in product spaces. More recently he has become interested in dynamical systems, in particular symbolic dynamics and the structure of invariant sets, and abstract topological dynamics. He is able to supervise doctoral research in these areas, as well as in:

The structure of 蠅-limit sets of tent maps and shifts of finite type using a mixture of analytic and symbolic techniques
The relationship between shadowing and expansivity of maps on compact metric spaces
The role of periodic points in chaos
Abstract dynamical systems modelled by compact Hausdorff spaces, separable metric spaces, the space of rational numbers and continua
Characterisations of ordinals

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Good, C & Mac铆as, S 2023, '', Topology Proceedings, vol. 61, pp. 101-122. <>

Good, C, Greenwood, S & Uresin, N 2020, '', Topology and its Applications, vol. 279, 107240.

Good, C, Leek, R & Mitchell, J 2020, '', Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 2441-2474.

Good, C, Macias, S, Meddaugh, J, Mitchell, J & Thomas, J 2020, '', Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 149, no. 2, pp. 671-685.

Good, C, Mitchell, J & Thomas, J 2020, '', Dynamical Systems, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 539-547.

Good, C, Mitchell, J & Thomas, J 2020, '', Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 485, no. 1, 123767, pp. 1-39.

Good, C, Mitchell, J & Meddaugh, J 2020, '', Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 491, no. 1, 124291.

Grove, M & Good, C 2019, '', Teaching Mathematics and its Applications.

Henze, R, Mu, C, Puljiz, M, Kamaleson, N, Huwald, J, Haslegrave, J, di Fenizio, PS, Parker, D, Good, C, Rowe, JE, Ibrahim, B & Dittrich, P 2019, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 1, 3902.

Good, C, Oprocha, P & Puljiz, M 2019, '', Fundamenta Mathematicae, vol. 244, no. 3, pp. 287-312.

Good, C & Meddaugh, J 2019, '', Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 220, pp. 715鈥�736.

Fern谩ndez, L, Good, C & Puljiz, M 2018, '', Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 2158-2179.

Good, C & Macias, S 2018, '', Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 1007-1031.

Good, C & Meddaugh, J 2016, '', Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.

Good, C & Fern谩ndez, L 2016, '', Fundamenta Mathematicae, vol. 235, pp. 277-286.

Media experience

Expertise: Mathematics

Experience:  Chris has worked on a number of videos for the School.  He has given public talks and has appeared in videos on YouTube for Meet the Mathematicians.