Name:
Duncan Potter
Date of Birth:
February 1967
Place of Birth:
Broxburn, Scotland, UK
Current position:
IT Systems Manager, School of Management & Languages, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
Email:
D.Potter

hw.ac.uk
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Academic Background
1988 - 1991
"Phase-Only Optical Information Processing using a 16x16 Spatial Light Modulator"
-in what is now the School of Physics, University of Edinburgh.)
Principal Areas
- Mathematical modelling of the spectrum observed in the phase-contrast microscope using a multiple convolution Bessel function approach.
- Development of a phase-only, nematic liquid crystal, spatial light modulator using the "Field Induced Birefringence" effect.
- Computational modelling of optimum algorithms for pattern recognition / correlation purposes with experimental verification (FORTRAN 77).
- Performing pattern recognition using electro-optical image processing via binary mode, phase-only filters in the Fourier plane of an optical image processing bench.
1984-1988
Class Prize: For first class honours in Astrophysics 1988.
Astrophysics Principal Subjects
(in what are now the Institute for Astronomy and School of Physics)
- Astronomical Instrumentation - Imaging spectrometers, x-ray spectrometers, electronic design.
- Physical Optics - Fourier optics, image processing.
- Electromagnetism
- Matter & Radiation Interactions I/II - Model atmospheres, radiative transfer theory.
- Cosmology
- Special Relativity
- Quantum Physics
- LASER Physics
- Stellar Structure
- Thermodynamics
- Statistical Physics
- Electronics / Oceanography (half-time courses in 2nd year).
1979-1984
Award: Dux of School 1984
| Subject
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| Ordinary Grade 1983
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| Higher Grade 1984
| | Chemistry: | | A | | A
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| Physics: | | A | | A
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| Mathematics: | | A | | A
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| English: | | A | | A
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| Geography: | | A | | B
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| French: | | A | |
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