NZMS Visitors List 42
The main purpose of this list is to enable other institutions to invite visitors to spend time with them. Anyone wishing to issue such an invitation should do so through the principal contact person.
The information for each item is arranged as follows: Name of visitor; home institution; whether accompanied; principal field of interest; dates of visit; principal host institution; principal contact person; comments.
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Professor Dan Archdeacon; Dept of Maths and Stats, University of Vermont, USA; accompanied by 14 yr old son; combinatorics; 27 January to 4 April 1996; University of Auckland; Dr Paul Bonnington.
Dr Brian Bowditch; University of Southampton; ; hyperbolic and differential geometry and geometric group theory; 10 December 1995 to 10 January 1996; University of Auckland; Professor Gaven Martin.
Professor Don Cohen; Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology; ; February 1996; ANZIAM 96 invited speaker; Professor G C Wake.
Professor Ellis Cumberbatch; Claremont Colleges Graduate School, California; accompanied; applied mathematics; February 1996; ANZIAM 96 invited speaker; Professor G C Wake.
Professor Odo Diekmann; University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; ; mathematical biology; February 1996; Professor G C Wake (also AgResearch Wallaceville; Mick Roberts); ANZIAM 96 invited speaker
Janet Dixon; University of Georgia; accompanied by husband, Philip Dixon (next entry); algebra and calculus; January to December 1996; University of Otago; Professor Bryan Manly.
Philip Dixon; University of Georgia; accompanied by wife, Janet Dixon (previous entry); statistics; January to December 1996; University of Otago; Professor Bryan Manly.
Professor Eusebius Doedel; Concordia University, Montreal; ; Computational Mathematics; February 1996; ANZIAM 96 invited speaker; Professor G C Wake.
Dr Anthony W F Edwards; University of Cambridge; unaccompanied; Likelihood, phylogenetic inference; January to March 1996; Massey University; Professor Mike Hendy; supported by the Royal Society.
Dr Sergey Federov; St Petersburg University; ; functional analysis; February 1994 to February 1996; Auckland University; Professor B Pavlov.
Professor Bernard Flury; Indiana University; ; 1 September to 30 November 1995; University of Auckland; Professor George Seber.
Dr Paul Gartside; Oxford University; unaccompanied; topology; September 1995 to April 1996; University of Auckland; Dr David McIntyre.
Alan Graham; Open University, England; unaccompanied; mathematics education; November and December 1996; University of Auckland; Dr Michael Thomas; was a visitor as part of British Council funded LINK scheme in 1993.
Professor Brian Gray; School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney; accompanied; Mathematical chemistry; February 1996; University of Auckland; Professor G C Wake.
Professor J. Haefner; University of Colorado; ; representation of algebras and group rings, graded rings, general module theory; 1 to 30 June 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Kevin O'Meara.
Dr Jim Hartman; The College of Wooster, Ohio, USA; ; applied statistics; May 1995 to May 1996; University of Otago; Professor Bryan Manly.
Dr Daniel Huson; University of Bielefeld; accompanied by wife (Elke) and baby (Marlon); combinatorics (tiling), biology; November 1995 to January 1996; Massey University; Prof Mike Hendy; followed by; February 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Mike Steel.
Dr Hajime Ishihara; Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Ishikawa; unaccompanied; constructive mathematics; October-December 1995; University of Waikato; Professor D.S. Bridges; tentative at this stage.
Dr Thomas Kaijser; Linkoping University, Sweden; accompanied by son; stochastic iterations, fractal coding; now until July 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Peter Renaud.
Professor Gerhard Kristensson; Department of Electromagnetic Theory, Lund University, Sweden; ; early 1997; University of Canterbury; Dr David Wall; Erskine Fellow.
Professor Curt C Lindner; Auburn University, Alabama; ; Steiner triple systems; February 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Derrick Breach.
Professor Rainer Loewen; University of Braunschweig, Germany; accompanied by wife (Irmgard); geometry and topology; 23 February to 5 April 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Guenter Steinke; Erskine Fellow.
Dr Jonas Lundstedt, Department of Electromagnetic Theory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; ; pde's, mechanics, computational mathematics; 3 February 1996 to 4 March 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr David Wall.
Professor John Mason; Open University, England; unaccompanied; mathematics education; August/Sept 1996; University of Auckland; Bill Barton; Visitor as part of British Council funded LINK scheme.
Dr Aisling Mccluskey; University College Galway; unaccompanied; topology; Febuary to April 1996; University of Auckland; Professor Ivan Reilly
Dr Marti McCracken; Universidad De Concepcion, Chile; ; statistics; 1 July to 31 December 1995; University of Otago; Prof Bryan Manly.
Professor Ray Mines, New Mexico State University, may be accompanied by wife; Jan-April 1996; constructive algebra and foundations of mathematics; University of Waikato; Professor D.S. Bridges.
Professor Isaac Namioka; The University of Washington (Seattle); accompanied by his wife; functional analysis and topology; August 1996; University of Auckland; Dr Warren B. Moors.
Dr. Katja Nieselt-Struwe; Max-Planck-Institut for biophysical chemistry in Göttingen; accompanied by husband and son and daughter; theoretical biology; 15 July 1995 to 15 July 1996; University of Auckland; Dr. Peter Wills; Feodor-Lynen scholar (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation);
Dr Peter Oliver; ; ; ; 24 March to 24 April 1997; University of Canterbury; Dr Mark Hickman; Erskine Fellow.
Dr Peter Ollson; Division of Mechanics, Chalmers Institute, Goteborg, Sweden; accompanied by wife and 2 children; pde's, mechanics, computational mathematics; 20 December 1995 to January 1996 and June/July 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr David Wall.
Professor Jeff Paris; University of Manchester; accompanied; logic; December 1995; University of Waikato; Graham French; tentative at this stage.
Dr Soeren Perrey; University of Bielefeld; accompanied by wife (Marlies) and son (Samuel); combinatorics (game theory), mathematical biology; November 1995 to October 1997; Massey University; Professor Mike Hendy; Post-doctoral Fellow.
Dr Burkhard Polster; University of Adelaide; ; geometry; March 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Gunter Steinke.
Assoc. Professor Reinout Quispel; La Trobe University; ; Dynamical systems, numerical methods; February 1996; Massey University; Dr Robert McLachlan.
Dr Gordon Royle; University of Western Australia; ; combinatorial computing; January 1996; University of Auckland; Professor Marston Conder and Assoc. Professor Peter Gibbons.
Professor Robert Russell; Burnaby, Canada; ; applied mathematics; 1 September 1995 to 30 August 1996; University of Auckland; Dr Vivien Kirk.
Professor Romano Scozzafava; School of Engineering; Universita 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy; ; subjective theory of probability in engineering; 9 August to 30 September 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Frank Lad; Erskine Fellow.
Professor Alfred Karl Seeger; Max Planck Institut fur Metallforsching, Institut fur Physik, Stuttgart, Germany; accompanied by wife; solid state physics, special functions; 2 January to 27 March 1996; University of Waikato; Professor E Kalnins.
Professor Jiang Shouli; Shandong University; unaccompanied; topology; February to July 1996; University of Auckland; Professor Ivan Reilly.
Professor Leonard Scott, University of Virginia; accompanied by wife; group theory; 9 to 15 December 1995; University of Auckland; Dr Jianbei An.
Professor Anne Penfold Street; University of Queensland; ; combinatorics; February 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Derrick Breach.
Professor Juergen Stueckrad; Department of Mathematics, University of Leipzig, Germany; algebraic geometry; March 1996; Massey University; Professor W Vogel.
Professor C I Vinsonhaler; University of Connecticut; accompanied by wife (Patty) and 2 children; algebra (abelian groups, partially ordered sets), teaching problem-solving skills, U.S. Calculus Reform Project; 13 May to 28 June 1996; University of Canterbury; Dr Kevin O'Meara.
Dr Tandy Warnow; Department of Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania; unaccompanied; theoretical computer science, combinatorics, computational biology, linguistics; 6 November to 2 December 1995; University of Canterbury; Dr Mike Steel; recipient NSF Young Investigator Award.
Richard Wilson; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico; ; topology; early 1997; University of Auckland; David Gauld
Professor Lawrence Zalcman; Bar Ilan University, Israel; accompanied by wife; complex analysis; 5 March 1995 to 12 March 1996; University of Auckland; Dr Joel Schiff.
The following overseas visitors will be attending the Tolaga Bay Workshop "Statistical mechanics conformal field theory and quantum groups" from 5 to 13 January 1996:
Rodney Baxter Australian National University.
Dietmar Bisch, University of California at Berkeley.
Peter Goddard University of Cambridge, England
Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ruth Lawrence, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Tetsuji Miwa, RIMS, Kyoto Japan.
Nicolai Reshetikhin, University of California at Berkeley.
Tim Ziman, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
Further details from David Gauld or Vaughan Jones.
Please note: Production of these lists is dependent on me receiving information. When you know about a visit (whether it be definite, very likely, or possible), would you please forward the details to me at the earliest convenient time. Thank you.
David Robinson, N.Z. Mathematical Society Visitors' Co-ordinator
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Private Bag 4800, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
email: d.robinson@math.canterbury.ac.nz, fax: (03) 364 2587