Peter Colin Young
PROFILE
Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University, UK.
Peter and Wendy at Lake Coniston, 2024
FAMILY DETAILS
Wendy Anne (nee Lowe)
Timothy John Young
Melanie Clare Dodd
Jeremy Peter Young
Louie Dodd
Rudie Dodd
Jude Dodd
Joseph Featherstone-Young
Arlo Young
Isabella Dodd
FORMERLY
1987-2005: Director of Centre for Environ-mental Systems and Statistics, Lancaster, University. 1981:-1987: Head of Environmental Science, Lancaster University. 1975-1981: Head, Environmental Systems, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. 1970-1975: Lecturer Engineering Department and Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK.
RECENT BOOKS
P. C. Young (2011) Recursive Estimation and Time Series Analysis:
An Introduction for the Student and Practioner, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
http://www.springer.com/engineering/control/book/978-3-642-21980-1
C.J. Taylor, P. C. Young, and A. Chotai (2013) True Digital Control. Wiley, Chichester.
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118521218.html
L. Wang and H.Garnier, editors (2011), System Identification, Environmetric Modelling and Control, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
http://www.springer.com/engineering/control/book/978-o-85729-973-4
P. C. Young (2026) The Art and Craft of Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling, Springer-Nature (to be published 2026).
The development to the Tools in CAPTAIN and their use in modelling, forecasting and control can be considered as an example of Art & Craft in action. Wendy has been involved in more traditional Art & Craft all her life, working mainly in textile art and, in particular on ‘Ruskin Lace’, a needle lace craft established in the English Lake District during the 19th Century and promoted by John Ruskin. The ‘Etui’, an embroiderer’s workbox, on the left, is decorated with Ruskin Lace and it opens, as shown on the right, to reveal the embroiderer’s tools. It is felt that this link between traditional and technical Art & Craft is important: it helps to focus on the development and utilisation of the technical tools and balance the often over-played importance of the Mathematical theories that support the underlying algorithms.
Wendy Anne Young
