Person
Morris, Sidney Allen (Sid) (1947 - )
- Born
- 1947
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician and University Administrator
- Website
- https://www.sidneymorris.net/
Summary
Sid Morris is a mathematician whose research interests focus on informatics, particularly algebra, analysis and geometry, and topology group theory. He has published almost 200 papers and several well-received books, often with colleagues as co-authors. A long-standing member of the Australian Mathematical Society, he served on council for 25 years. He has made significant contributions to the Society's publication program, being founding Editor of the AustMS lecture series and the Bulletin, and has been Co-Editor of the Gazette since 2013. Morris was Professor of mathematics, Dean of mathematics faculties and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at several Australian university, including New England, Wollongong, and South Australia. He retired as Professor of Informatics at the University of Ballarat in 2010.
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Chronology
- 1969
- Education - BSc (hons), University of Queensland
- 1970
- Education - PhD, Flinders University
- 1970
- Career position - Lecturer, University of Adelaide
- 1970 - 1971
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida
- 1971 - 1975
- Career position - Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer), University of New South Wales
- 1974
- Career position - Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Wales, United Kingdom
- 1976 - 1988
- Career position - Reader in Mathematics, La Trobe University
- 1979 - 1984
- Career position - Editor, Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
- 1984 - 1994
- Career position - Founding Editor, AustMS lecture series
- 1988 - 1991
- Career position - Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, University of New England
- 1989 - 1991
- Career position - Deputy Chair, Academic Senate, University of New England
- 1991 - 1995
- Career position - Dean, Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong
- 1991 - 1997
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics, University of Wollongong
- 1992 - 1996
- Career position - Deputy Chair, Academic Senate, University of Wollongong
- 1997 - 1998
- Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, University of South Australia
- 1997 - 2010
- Career position - Founding Editor, Journal of group theory
- 1998 - 2001
- Career position - Research Professor of Mathematics, University of South Australia
- 2001 - 2010
- Career position - Professor of Informatics, University of Ballarat
- 2003 - 2010
- Career position - Head, Graduate School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat
- 2010 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Ballarat (later Federation University)
- 2010 -
- Career position - Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
- 2010
- Life event - Retired
- 2013 -
- Career position - Co-Editor, Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society
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Published resources
Books
- Jones, Arthur; Morris, Sidney A.; and Pearson, Kenneth R., Abstract algebra and famous impossibilities (New York: Berlin: Springer, 1991), 187 pp. Details
- Morris, Sidney A., Calculating chance: card and casino games (New York: Springer Nature BV, 2024), 173 pp. Details
- Morris, Sidney, A., Jones, Arthur and Pearson, Kenneth R., Abstract algebra: squaring the circle, doubling the cube, trisecting an angle, and solving quintic equations (New York: Springer Nature, 2022), 240 pp. Details
Edited Books
- Morris, Sidney A. ed., Topological groups: yesterday, today and tomorrow (Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2016), 217 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Gabriyelyan, S. S. and Morris, Sidney A., 'On varieties of Abelian topological groups with coproducts', Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 95 (1) (2017), 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0004972716000654. Details
- Hofmann, K. H. and Morris, S. A., 'The structure of almost connected pro-lie groups', Journal of lie theory, 21 (2) (2011), 347-83, https://www.heldermann.de/JLT/JLT21/JLT212/jlt21015.htm. Details
- Morris, Sid, 'Obituary: Alex Rubinov 28 March 1940 - 9 September 2006', Australian Mathematical Society gazette, 33 (5) (2006), 321-2, https://austms.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Nov06-335.pdf. Details
- Morris, Sid, 'Bertram (Bert) Mond', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 51 (5) (2024), 247, https://austms.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nov24-515.pdf. Details
- Morris, Sidney A., 'Karl Heinrich Hofmann and the structure of compact groups and pro-lie groups', Journal of lie theory, 33 (1) (2023), 2-28, https://www.heldermann.de/JLT/JLT33/JLT331/jlt33002.htm. Details
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Created: 30 September 2025