Person

Osborne, Michael Robert (1934 - )

FAA

Born: 26 December 1934
Occupation: Mathematician

Summary

Michael Osborne came to the Australian National University as Head of the Computer Centre in 1966 and retired about 2000 as Professor, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, School of Mathematical Sciences. His research interests include numerical analysis, mathematical programming and scientific computing.

Details

Chronology

1957: Education - Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA (Hons)) completed at the University of Melbourne
1960 - 1962: Career position - Assistant Lecturer then Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK
1961: Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of London
1962 - 1963: Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics at Imperial College, University of London
1963 - 1965: Career position - Assistant Director of the Computer Unit at the University of Edinburgh
1966 - 1976: Career position - Head of the Computer Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra
1976 - 1977: Career position - Director of the Computer Centre at the Australian National University (ANU)
1978 - c. 1992: Career position - Professorial Fellow in Statistics at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
1983: Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
c. 1992 - c. 2000: Career position - Professor of the Statistics Research Section of the School of Mathematical Sciences, ANU
c. 2000 -: Career position - Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University

Related Corporate Bodies

Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )
Elected Fellow 1983

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

Michael Robert Osborne - Records, 1965 - 2000, MS 209; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Resources

'Osborne, M R (1934-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-613599. Details

Rosanne Walker

Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 11 February 2016

EOAS ID: biogs/P003815b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003815b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260