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“Keith Still is what I term an intuitive mathematician. He is one of the most creative and original thinkers that I know. He adds drive and determination, as well as considerable intellectual power to any group of which he is a part…….His intuition for subtle patterns of behaviour in complex data is impressive, the best I've ever seen." Prof. Ian Stewart - Fellow of the Royal Society.

               G. Keith Still            Benoit Mandelbrot             Nick Gogerty

Biography

Professor Still has lectured at the UK Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College since 1999 and has developed the EPC’s Crowd Dynamics materials and workshops as well as contributing to several other safety-related courses.

Away from the EPC, Keith is Senior Consultant - Major Events at the UK’s leading security company, G4S Secure Solutions, part of the global G4S group. Keith is a key contributor to G4S’s consulting-led delivery of major event safety and security solutions.  He leverages his experience and expertise from diverse mass participation events worldwide to augment and optimise G4S’s support to police services, venue owners and event promoters. 

His mathematical and behavioural modelling and simulation tools led to the development of a systematic blueprint for the crowd safety industry and his learning and development workshops teach others to understand the theory and application of Crowd Science, and to apply it to real events. His educational site Safer Crowds has an international following.

Alongside training and teaching. Keith’s current assignments include modelling projects for the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, Olympics-related planning work in East London, and development of police training programmes across Europe and USA.

Keith was made a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) in late 2007 and is the G4S Professor of Crowd Sciences at the International Centre for Crowd Management and Security Studies (ICCMSS) at Buckinghamshire New University, near London. 

Education 

1. BSc in Physical Sciences (majoring in Physics)
2. PhD in Interdisciplinary Mathematics from Warwick University
3. Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its applications. (FIMA)  
4. G4S Professor of Crowd Sciences (Bucks New University)
5. Associate Course Director and Regular Visiting Speaker at Easingwold (the UK Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College) 
6. Member of Mensa for over 30 years

Mathematical Interests

Crowd simulations, Games Theory, Complexity Theory, Queueing Theory, Fractals, Chaos, Self-organised systems, Network Analysis, Algorithmic Graph Theory, Crowd and Traffic Optimisation, Cellular Automata, Dynamical Systems, Chaotic Controls, Mathematical Biology, Small World Network Theory, Economic Modelling, Topology and Symplectic Geometry. 

Personal Interests

Magic, Motorbikes (Harley Davidson - Heritage Softail Classic), Games design, Archery, Golf, doing stuff with my family (Val, Harry, Erin and dog), Writing Music, Playing Jazz Saxophone - not necessarily in that order of course.

Keith on his Harley (in the showroom)

News reports and TV items:

Physics Education vol 15 1980. 'A versatile nodal slide.' (Patented nodal slide/optical bench. Pat. No. 7351593). Articles written for Health and Safety ('The Lemming Factor' Dec 92) and Fire ('New computer system can predict human behavioural response to building fires' Jan 93). VEgAS featured on ITN (Nov 92) and Tomorrows World (Jan 93 and Feb 95). Articles in New Scientist (Nov 92 and April 93 "Lessons from the Inferno" Two pages in the supplement), the TIMES (Nov 92), Beyond 2000 (Jul 93, August 1996), Personal Computer World (Oct 94). Focus Magazine (Nov 94, Mar 96). Cover Disk Personal Computer Word (Dec 94, Jun 96). European Business News (Jul 95, Nov 95, Mar 96, Aug 96) for Crowd Modelling, Business Process Re-Engineering VR models, Fractal Compression and Predicting the money markets. New Scientist (Feb 96) Rock fans go with the Flow, Economist (April 12th - Fractal Futures), Personal Computer World (June 1996) Cover Disk. Sunday Times (front page editorial - 7th July 1996). Scientific American (with Ian Stewart - March 1996), Crowd Modelling (Radio 4 April 98). Discovery Channel (World of Wonder - April 98). Also featured in a chapter of Ian Stewart's latest best selling book (Life's Other Secret). "Wirequakes - a question of seismology" with Len Reynolds and Ian Stewart - a paper comparing earth and wire quakes (Wire Industry, December 1999). Various Sydney Olympics news and broadcasts (1999 through 2000). Nature July 5th Volume 412 article on Starlab. 2001 Open University programme - Crowd Dynamics. November 2002 - Channel 5 documentary on "Battlefield Detectives" (shown July 2003). Building the Ultimate Stadium and Battlefield Detectives-Gettysburg shown on the History Channel around the world. Testimony at the USA House Committee (9th June) for the evacuation of the the Capitol Buildings (May 11th). "Understanding Crowd Dynamics". Article in the Main Event (Nov 2005). Numerous Radio and TV appearances relating to Crowd Safety (2005) following the Jamarat Tragedy. National Geographic TV "Escape Tech" (10th April 2006). Technical consultant on an episode of "Numb3rs" (CBS TV programme). Emergent Systems - TV programme for NOVA (just completed filming Nov 2006). IJCIS "Review of Crowd Simulations". Published Nov 2006. Jan 2009 TV programmes – Overcrowding on UK trains, Articles in Focus magazine, Dubai News, USA Time Magazine and various other TV/News and media programmes relating to the current state of over crowding on public transport in the UK. 2009 ACPO Magazine, Mensa Magazine, ISquared Magazine, Secure London and Emergency Services Show. 2010 – connect (Safety in Numbers). 

Publications:

• Still G. K. New Computer system can predict human behaviour response to building fires. Fire 84 (January 1993), 40-41
• Still G. K. Towering Inferno New Scientist (Supplement April 1993).
• Still G. K. New Insights into Crowd Behaviour - It's Fractal. Focus November (1994).
• Still G. K. Simulating Egress using Virtual Reality - a perspective view of simulation and design. IMAS Fire Safety on Ships symposium (May 1994).
• Still G. K. The Secret Life of crowds. Focus (June 1996)
• Still G. K. Last word, mind the gap. New Scientist (March 20th 1999).
• Reynolds, L. Fielden, I, Still, G. K, Stewart, I. "Wirequakes - a question of seismology" with Len Reynolds and Ian Stewart - a paper comparing earth and wire quakes (Wire Industry, December 1999).
• Still G. K. Crowd Dynamics. PhD Thesis, Mathematics department, Warwick University. (August 2000)
• Still G. K. Optimising Office Egress. Web based publication (Sept 2001)
• Still G. K. "Agincourt" Chapter in book "Battlefield Detectives" ISBN 0-233-05083-3
• Still G. K. "Review of Pedestrian and Evacuation Simulation" Critical Infrastructures