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PERSONAL
Born: November 28, 1941, Great Britain Citizenship: Canadian
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
B.A. University of Saskatchewan, Department of Mathematics
(with Great Distinction)
1962M.A. University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics 1964 Ph.D. University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics 1966
Honours
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1980 Coxeter-James Lectureship, Canadian Mathematical Society 1978 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship 1981 Awarded the 1994-96 Eugene Wigner Medal (jointly with V. Kac) for "work on affine Lie algebras that has influenced many areas of theoretical physics", Int. Committee for Group Theoretical Methods in Math. & Physics.
1994Jeffrey-William Lectureship, Canadian Mathematical Society 1995 Ireland Lectureship for 1995, University of New Brunswick 1995 Kaplan Award for Science, Univeristy of Alberta 1996 Britten Lectureship: Delivered the 1996 (four lectures),
McMaster University
1996Alberta Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Research 1996 Frontiers of Mathematics Lectureship, Texas A&M University 1998 CRM/Fields Institute Prize 1998 Officer of the Order of Canada 1999 Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de Montréal 2000 Lansdowne Professorship, University of Victoria 2004 Golden Jubilee Professorship, Benares Hindu University, Varanasi 2004
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Saskatchewan
1966Associate Professor, tenured, Department of Mathematics, University of Saskatchewan
1970Full Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Saskatchewan
1976Full Professor, 1989, Department of Mathematics,
University of Alberta
1989Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 1967-1968 Mathematisches Institüt, Universität Bonn July 1973-
June 1974Guest Professor, Gesamthochschule Wuppertal,
and Université de Paris VIJan. 1979-
June 1979Centre de Recherche de Mathematiques Appliquées, Montréal, 1983-1984 Professor, Concordia University, Montreal 1984-1986 Guest Professor, Tata Institute for Mathematics, Bombay Autumn
1987Member of the Aspen Institute for Physics 1982, 1983,
1984, 1986,
1987, 1990,
1997
THESES SUPERVISED
N. Strungaru Ph.D. began
Sept. 2001D. Postnikov M.Sc. The pinwheel tiling to be
completed 2004J.-Y. Lee Ph.D. Aperiodic Order and substitution systems in progress Stephen Sullivan M.Sc. Invariants for model sets 2001 J.-Y. Lee M.Sc. Lattice substitution systems 1999 P. Wiebe M.Sc. The mathematics of diffraction 1998 J. Bliss Ph.D. Axioms for infinite root systems 1993 P. Check M.Sc. A connection between von Neumann algebras and Coxeter graphs 1993 L. Chen Ph.D. Differential operator Lie algebras on Laurent polynomial rings 1993 Y. Yoshii M.Sc. A survey of Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures 1993 Z. Shi Ph.D. Graded groups and toroidal groups 1991 K. Liu Ph.D. The quantum Witt algebra and quantizations of some modules over the Witt algebra 1991 M. Fabbri Ph.D. Generalized Heisenberg algebras and their vertex operator representations 1991 Z. Shi M.Sc. Invariants of Weyl groups 1989 A. Pianzola Ph.D. Elements of finite order in Lie groups 1984 A. Pianzola M.Sc. Isomorphically representable Lie algebras 1981 H.-P. Tsai M.Sc. Classification of real simple Lie algebras by infinite dimensional Lie algebras 1981 K.L. Teo Ph.D. Modular Euclidean Lie algebras 1973 Y.P. Haw M.Sc. The theory of buildings 1972 J. Swift M.Sc. Cayley projective planes 1970 K.L. Teo M.Sc. Chevalley groups 1970 C.K. Lim M.Sc. On root systems associated with generalized Cartan matrices 1967
RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Scientific Director Banff International Research Station
for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery2001-2003 Organizer: Oberwolfach Workshop on Aperiodic Order 2001 Organizer: Algebra 2000, PIMS Summer School, University of Alberta 2000 PIMS Scientific Review Panel 1997-present Organizer: Oberwolfach Workshop on Aperiodic Order 1998 Organizer: Thematic program on aperiodic order, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, 1995 Organizer: NATO Advanced Study Institute, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences 1995 Scientific Advisory Board, Centre de Recherches de Mathematique, University de Montréal 1993-1996 Scientific Advisory Panel, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences 1993-1998 Editorial Board, Nova Journal of Algebra and Geometry 1992-1998 Publications Committee of the Canadian Mathematical Society 1982-1985
1988-1990Council, Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada 1990-1993 Member of the Board of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematics 1988-1991 Chairman, Review Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics 1990 Editorial Boards, Canadian Journal of Mathematics and Canadian Mathematics Bulletin 1989-1990
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