Chair: Professor
Ian Sloan,
University of New South Wales
Chair of
National Committee for Mathematics.
Biographical note: Ian was educated in Mathematics and Physics at
Melbourne,
Adelaide and
London,
finishing with a PhD in Theoretical Physics.
Since 1965 he has been in the
School of Mathematics at the
University of New South Wales.
Nowadays, his research interests lie with the mathematics of solving problems in
science and engineering, using computers.
He was appointed to a Personal Chair in 1983,
and was Head of School from 1986 to 1993.
Ian collaborates with numerous research groups in Europe and the USA,
and is on the editorial board of five international mathematics journals.
He has been a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Science since 1993
and occupies the Chair of the
National Committee for Mathematics.
