Person
McIntosh, Alan Gaius Ramsay (1942 - 2016)
FAA
- 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)) completed at the University of New England in Armadale, New South Wales
- 1963
- Career position - Tutor at the 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) completed at the 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 of the 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
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- 'Obituaries', Australian Academy of Science Newsletter (2016). https://www.science.org.au/academy-newsletter/australian-academy-science-newsletter-105/obituaries. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29000360. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93116795. Details
- Hannan Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science, 2022. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/hannan-medal. Details
- 'McIntosh, Alan (19420117-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-556088. Details
See also
- Who's who in Australia 2012 (Melbourne: Crown Content Pty Ltd, 2012), 2430 pp. Details
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Created: 10 May 2001, Last modified: 3 March 2022