Booth, Hilary Susan (1956 - 2005)

Summary

Hilary Booth was a mathematician and talented artist. At a young age she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease which continued to adversely affect her health. In 1992 she became Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of New England, later moving to the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University. For her doctoral thesis, awarded in 1999, she studied the theorem that a static Maxwell-Dirac system is electrically neutral. Her published research was in the area of mathematical physics/nonlinear partial differential equations, bioinformatics, and sequence analysis and gene regulatory networks. Booth was involved in both the Australian Mathematical Society and ANZIAM, serving as Assistant Editor for the latter's Journal. She was much respected for her teaching abilities. The Hilary Booth Scholarship is awarded annually by the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University, to a student entering their final honours year or intending to proceed to an honours degree.

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Chronology

1977

Education - BSc (mathematical physics), University of Adelaide

1992

Education - Certificate of Equivalent Honours, University of New England

1992 - 1997

Career position - Associate Lecturer, University of New England

1998 - 2000

Career position - Lecturer, University of Adelaide

1999

Education - PhD (applied mathematics), University of New England

2000 - 2001

Career position - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University

2001 - 2002

Career position - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Bioinformation Science (CBiS), Australian National University

2002 - 2005

Career position - Research Fellow, Centre for Bioinformation Science (CBiS), Australian National University

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Booth, Hilary S., Burden, Conrad, Hegland, Marcus and Santoso, Lucia, 'A stochastic model of gene regulation using the chemical master equation', Mathematical modelling of biological systems, 1 (2007), 71-81, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4558-8_7. Details
• Booth, Hilary S., MacNamara, Shevarl F., Nielsen, Ove Møller and Wilson, Susan, 'An iterative approach to determining the length of the longest common sequence of two strings', Methodology and computing in applied probability, 6 (4) (2004), 401-21, https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MCAP.0000045088.88240.3a. Details
• Booth, Hilary S., Maindonald, John, Wilson, Susan and Gready, Jill E., 'An efficient Z-score algorithm for assessing sequence alignments', Journal of computational biology, 11 (4) (2004), 6216-25, https://doi.org/10.1089/1966527041887348. Details
• Hunt, Emma and Pearce, Charles, 'In memoriam: Hilary Booth', ANZIAM journal, 47 (1) (2005), i, https://doi.org/10.1017/S144618110000972. Details
• Wilson, Susan R., 'Obituary: Dr Hilary Susan Booth 8 July 1956 - 26 May 2005', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 32 (3) (2005), 174-5, https://austms.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/July05-323.pdf. Details

Theses

• Booth, Hilary, 'The static Maxwell-Dirac equations', PhD thesis, University of New England, 1999. Details