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Steven Lord

Profile

Steven trained in the field of noncommutative geometry in pure mathematics before branching into applied mathematical and statistical methods useful in complex decision making.

From 2010 to 2015 he was responsible for leading quantitative research and applications at the Australian Department of Defence as part of a multi-disciplinary group providing advice, modelling and analysis on risk management, risk assessment, future scenarios, and resilience to senior decision-makers in Australian Commonwealth Government.

Since 2016 he has worked on food system and economic modelling for sustainability, risk and resilience within the Food System Transformation Group, fostering a broad range of international collaborations. In 2017 he launched FoodSIVI with Jason Czarnezki following a series of workshops.

He has been a highly cited researcher for Futures, Advances in Mathematics, and Environmental Modelling & Software. His modelling interests and present projects include dynamic equilibrium modelling with joint stochasticity in oil prices and shocks to corn yield, cost-modelling of global food system externalities, and machine-learning time series analysis of Sub-Sahara Africa food insecurity.

Research

Steven's research interests are divided between research into social and abatement costing of food system impact, pure mathematics, and food systems modelling.

Publications

Kalton, N. et al. (2013) “Traces of compact operators and the noncommutative residue”, Advances in Mathematics, 235, pp. 1–55.
Lord, S. and Vaz, R. (2013) “Designing and evaluating layered security”, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 17(1), pp. 19 – 19.
LORD, S., Sukochev, F. and Zanin, D. (2013) Singular Traces. De Gruyter.
Lord, S., Rennie, A. and Várilly, J. (2012) “Riemannian manifolds in noncommutative geometry”, Journal of Geometry and Physics, 62(7), pp. 1611–1638.
Nunes-Vaz, R., Lord, S. and Ciuk, J. (2011) “A More Rigorous Framework for Security-in-Depth”, Journal of Applied Security Research, 6(3), pp. 372–393.
Lord, S. and Sukochev, F. (2011) “Noncommutative residues and a characterisation of the noncommutative integral”, in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. American Mathematical Society (AMS), pp. 243–257.
Lord, S., Potapov, D. and Sukochev, F. (2010) “Measures from Dixmier traces and zeta functions”, Journal of Functional Analysis, 259(8), pp. 1915–1949.
Lord, S. (2010) “Measure Theory in Noncommutative Spaces”, Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications [Preprint].
Lord, S. et al. (2010) “Airport front-of-house vulnerabilities and mitigation options”, Journal of Transportation Security, 3(3), pp. 149–177.
Lord, S., Sedaev, A. and Sukochev, F. (2005) “Dixmier traces as singular symmetric functionals and applications to measurable operators”, Journal of Functional Analysis, 224(1), pp. 72–106.