Person

Street, Ross Howard (1945 - )

FAA

Born
29 September 1945
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Mathematician

Summary

Ross Howard Street was appointed lecturer at Macquarie University in 1970 and was awarded a personal chair in Mathematics in 1990. His particular research interest is category theory.

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Chronology

1964 - 1968
Career position - Tutor of Mathematics (part-time), University of Sydney
1966
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Sydney
1968 -
Career position - Member, American Mathematical Society
1968 - 1969
Career position - Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.
1969
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney
1969 - 1970
Career position - Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
1970 - 1971
Career position - Lecturer, Macquarie University
1970 - 1995
Career position - Member, Australian Mathematical Society
1972 - 1974
Career position - Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University
1974 - 1994
Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
1975 - 1990
Career position - Associate Professor, Macquarie University
1977
Award - Edgeworth-David Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1989 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1990 - 2007
Career position - Professor of Mathematics (personal chair), Macquarie University
1995 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Mathematical Society
1997 -
Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Advances in mathematics
1999 -
Career position - Director, Macquarie University Centre of Australian Category Theory
2001
Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in mathematics
2007
Career position - Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University
2011
Career position - Chaire de la Vallee Poussin, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
2012
Award - George Szekeres Medal, Australian Mathematical Society

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Journal Articles

  • Street, Ross, 'Obituary: Max Kelly, FAA 5 June 1930 - 26 January 2007', Australian Mathematical Society gazette, 34 (2) (2007), 94-6. Details
  • Street, Ross, 'Max Kelly 5 June 1930 - 26 January 2007', Theory and applications of categories, 20 (2008), 1-4, http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/volumes/20/notice/20-notice.pdf. Details
  • Street, Ross, 'Gregory Maxwell Kelly 1930-2007', Historical Records of Australian Science, 21 (2) (2010), 237-51, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR10007. Details
  • Street, Ross, 'Brian John Day 16 January 1945 - 16 June 2012', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 40 (2) (2013), 99-101. Details

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See also

  • Who's who in Australia 2012 (Melbourne: Crown Content Pty Ltd, 2012), 2430 pp. Details

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