Dancer, Edward Norman (Norman) (1946 - )

Summary

Norman Dancer is Chair and Professor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. Prior to this he had been at the University of New England for around twenty years where he worked his way up from Lecturer to Personal Chair of Mathematics. Dancer has also spent much time working and lecturing at overseas Universities and Institutes on short term sabbaticals and has presented his work at many international meetings. His present research interests include nonlinear analysis, especially degree theory, Morse theory and Conley index; applications to nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations, including singular perturbations; bifurcation theory.

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Chronology

1965 - 1968

Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at the Australian National University in Canberra

1969

Career position - Tutor of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University (7 months)

1969 - 1971

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK (conferred 1992)

1971 - 1972

Career position - Visitor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

1972 - 1973

Career position - Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University

1973 - 1975

Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of New England in New South Wales

1976 - 1981

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of New England

1981 - 1987

Career position - Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of New England

1987 - 1993

Career position - Personal Chair of Mathematics at the University of New England

1993 -

Career position - Professor and Chair of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney

1996 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

2002

Award - Humboldt Research Award received from the Humboldt Foundation and Helmholtz Association

2009

Award - Hannan Medal, Australian Academy of Science

2017

Award - Schauder Medal, Juliusz P. Schauder Center for Nonlinear Studies

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Yihong Di, 'The work of Norman Dancer', Discrete and continuous dynamical systems series S, 12 (7) (2019), 1807-33, https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdss.2019119. Details

Resources

• Hannan Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science, 2022. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/hannan-medal. Details
• 'Dancer, E N (1946-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-502839. Details