Person

McIntosh, Alan Gaius Ramsay (1942 - 2016)

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Born
17 January 1942
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
8 August 2016
Occupation
Mathematician and University Administrator

Summary

Alan McIntosh was a mathematician who specialised in analysis at the boundary of harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. With colleagues he was noted for solving the Calderon conjecture in the theory of singular integral operators, and the Kato square root problem. Other research covered Dirac operators and Hardy space. The techniques developed by McIntosh and his collaborators revolutionised the way fundamental operators in physics are analysed. McIntosh published over seventy publications and gave numerous invited lectures and conference presentations. From 1999 to 2014 he was Professor in the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University.

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Chronology

1962
Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of New England in Armadale, New South Wales
1963
Career position - Tutor, University of New England
1966
Career position - Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.
1966
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
1966 - 1967
Career position - Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, USA
1967 -
Career position - Member of the Australian Mathematical Society
1967 - 1999
Career position - Lecturer (later Associate Professor of Mathematics), Macquarie University in Sydney
1971 - 1973
Career position - Council member of the Australian Mathematical Society
1973
Career position - Member of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, USA
1980
Career position - Professeur Invité, Université Paris VI, France
1983 - 1984
Career position - Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at Australian National University, Canberra
1985 - 1999
Career position - Leader of the Analysis Group at Macquarie University
1986 - 2016
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1988 - 1990
Career position - Member of the National Committee for Mathematics, Australian Academy of Science
1999 - 2004
Career position - Head of the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications
1999 - 2014
Career position - Professor, Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University
2001
Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science in mathematics and its application
2002
Career position - Moyal Medal, Department of Mathematics, Macquarie University
2015
Award - Hannan Medal, Australian Academy of Science

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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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