Person
Hosking, Roger John (1940 - 2022)
- Born
- 28 November 1940
Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 10 May 2022
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician and University Administrator
Summary
Roger Hosking was a mathematician whose research interests focused on plasma physics. This included plasma instability due to Hall current and magnetoviscons stabilisation; and extension of shallow flow equations to curved beds. During his time as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, he produced trail blazing theoretical research into aircraft landing on floating sea ice. With colleagues he published the highly regarded Moving loads on ice plates (1996). This was one of several significant books he published on numerical analysis, and fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics. In 1988 Hosking moved to the James Cook University, again as Professor of Mathematics, where he had a major role in developing the research capability of the Department of Mathematics and Chaired the Academic Board. For ten years he was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Brunei Darussalam before returning to Adelaide in 2010.
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Chronology
- 1962
- Education - BSc (hons), University of Adelaide
- 1965
- Education - PhD, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- 1965 - 1966
- Career position - Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany
- 1966 - 1971
- Career position - Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer), Flinders University
- 1968 - 1969
- Career position - Visiting researcher, School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University
- 1970 - 1971
- Career position - Research Associate, Culham Laboratory, Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom
- 1971 - 1973
- Career position - Reader in Mathematics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- 1973 - 1988
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- 1974
- Career event - Founding member, Division of Applied Mathematics, Australian Mathematical Society (later ANZIAM)
- 1981 - 1982
- Career position - Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head, Division of Computer Applications, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
- 1983 - 1984
- Career position - Visiting researcher, School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University
- 1984 - 1985
- Career position - Senior visitor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1986 - 1988
- Career position - Head, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- 1988 - 1998
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics, James Cook University
- 1989 - 1990
- Career position - Department Chairman, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
- 1991 - 1992
- Career position - Chairman, Division of Applied Mathematics, Australian Mathematical Society (later ANZIAM)
- 1991 - 1993
- Career position - Chairman, Academic Board, James Cook University
- 1993
- Career position - Senior visitor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1993 - 1994
- Career position - Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1999 - 2009
- Career position - Member of the Senate, University of Brunei Darussalam
- 1999 - 2009
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics, University of Brunei Darussalam
- 2010 -
- Career position - Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematical Science, University of Adelaide
- 2011 - 2017
- Career position - Editor, East Asian journal on applied mathematics
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Published resources
Books
- Hosking, R. J., First steps in numerical analysis (Hodder Education Publishers, 1996), 240 pp. Details
- Hosking, Roger, All about Braidwood's climate: a description of the local climate with practical examples of how the information can be applied: an introduction to the atmospheric and hydrological aspects of the physical geography of the Braidwood area (Braidwood, N.S.W.: R. Hosking, 2003), 54 pp. Details
- Hosking, Roger J. and Dewar, Robert L., Fundamentals of fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics (Springer Nature BV, 2016), 296 pp. Details
- Squire, Vernon A., Hosking, Roger J., Kerr, Arnold D. and Langhorne, Patricia J., Moving loads on ice plates (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 1996), 236 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Metcalfe, Andrew; and Bennetts, Luke, 'Roger John Hosking', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 49 (3) (2022), 118-9. Details
See also
- Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details
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Created: 30 September 2025