Person
Smrz, Pavel Karel (1937 - 2014)
- Born
- 10 December 1937
Prague, Czechoslovakia - Died
- 26 July 2014
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician, Physicist and University Administrator
Summary
Pavel Smrz was a physicist and mathematician whose early research on collision of elementary particles and differential geometry was conducted in the U.S.S.R. and Canada. In 1971 he joined the University of Newcastle where his teaching was mainly in the areas of algebra and statistics. His published output was largely in the fields of nuclear physics and general relativity.
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Chronology
- 1960
- Education - Graduated in physics from Charles University, Prague
- 1961 - 1962
- Career position - Research assistant, High Energy Physics Laboratory, Physics Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
- 1962 - 1965
- Career position - Research assistant, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, U.S.S.R.
- 1965
- Education - PhD, Charles University, Prague
- 1965 - 1966
- Career position - Canadian National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1967 - 1970
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- 1971 - ?
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- 1975
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1977
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 1983
- Career position - Visiting fellow, University of Catania, Sicily
- 1985 - 1990
- Career position - Head, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Newcastle
- 1997
- Life event - Retired
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Giles, John R., 'Pavel Karel Smrz 10 December 1937 to 26 July 2014', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 41 (4) (2014), 233-5. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 13 March 2018, Last modified: 16 November 2021