Person
Street, Anne Penfold (1932 - 2016)
AM
- Born
- 11 October 1932
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 28 December 2016
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician and Educator
Summary
Anne Street was a mathematician specialising in combinatorical designs, binary arrays and Ramsey theory who held positions at universities, both within Australia and abroad, from 1953. She became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Queensland in 1985 and headed the University's Centre for Combinatorics (later the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing). Street was active in professional organisations including the Australian Mathematics Trust and as a founding member and President of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. The Australian Mathematical Society awards the Anne Penfold Street Award.
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Chronology
- 1953 - 1954
- Career position - Tutor in Chemistry, University Women's College, Melbourne
- 1954
- Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Melbourne
- 1954 - 1956
- Career position - Demonstrator in Chemistry, University of Melbourne
- 1956
- Education - Master of Science (MSc) in Chemistry, University of Melbourne
- 1957
- Career position - Tutor in Chemistry, University of Melbourne
- 1966
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics, University of Illinois, USA
- 1966 - 1967
- Career position - Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, University of Illinois, USA
- 1967 - 1970
- Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Queensland
- 1969 - 1970
- Career position - Izaac Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics, University of Alberta, Canada
- 1970 - 1974
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Queensland
- August 1973
- Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics at McGill University in Canada
- September 1973 - December 1973
- Career position - Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1974
- Career position - Director of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
- 1975 - 1985
- Career position - Reader in Mathematics, University of Queensland
- July 1980 - August 1980
- Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Reading, UK
- September 1980 - October 1980
- Career position - Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba in Canada
- November 1980 - December 1980
- Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, USA
- September 1981
- Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitabo, Canada
- January 1982
- Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
- January 1983 - February 1983
- Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada
- 1983 - 1996
- Career position - Member, Australian Mathematics Problems Committee
- January 1984 - April 1984
- Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada
- April 1984 - June 1984
- Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama, USA
- 1985 - 1997
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics (personal chair), University of Queensland
- July 1986
- Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada
- September 1987 - December 1987
- Career position - Visiting Erskine Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand
- 1989
- Career position - Director of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
- 1990 -
- Career position - Founding Member, Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications (ICA)
- 1990 - 1997
- Career position - Director of the Centre for Combinatorics, University of Queensland
- 1990 - 2001
- Career position - Founding Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
- March 1990 - April 1990
- Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Algebra, Combinatorics and Analysis at Auburn University in Alabama, USA
- 1991 - 1995
- Career position - Australian Senior Research Fellow, University of Queensland
- 1991 - 2014
- Career position - Editor, Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
- 1994
- Award - B. H. Neumann Award (jointly), Australian Mathematics Trust
- 1994 - 1996
- Career position - Deputy Chair, Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee
- 1995 - 2001
- Career position - Board Member, Australian Mathematics Trust
- 1996
- Award - DMath (honoris causa), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1996 - 2001
- Career position - President, Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee
- 1996 - 2002
- Career position - President, Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications
- 1997 -
- Career position - Director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing, University of Queensland
- 1997 -
- Career position - Professorial Fellow (part-time), University of Queensland
- 1997
- Life event - Retired
- 1997 - 1998
- Career position - President, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia founding President, Combinatorial Mathematical Society of Australasia
- 1999
- Award - Medal for Outstanding Service, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
- 2014
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to science education in the field of mathematics
Related entries
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Biographical cuttings on Anne Street, Professor, mathematician, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Articles
- 'Anne Street: Combinatorial mathematics', WISENET Journal, 34 (March) (1994), http://www.wisenet-australia.org/profiles/street.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Donovan, Diane, 'Anne Penfold Street 11 October 1932 to 28 December 2016', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 44 (1) (2017), 33-5. Details
- Street, Deborah; Oates-Wuilliams, Sheila; Donovan, Diane; and Billington, Elizabeth, 'Special issue in honour of Anne Penfold Street AM 11 Oct 1932 - 28 Dec 2016: reminiscences of Anne Penfold Street', Australasian journal of combinatorics, 71 (3) (2018), 324-35, https://ajc.maths.uq.edu.au/pdf/71/ajc_v71_p324.pdf. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29650258. Details
- 'Street, Anne Penfold (1932-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-531538. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn
Created: 26 March 2003, Last modified: 24 April 2023