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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-31 human Annette Alafaci updated 2026-02-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004096b.htm person Dancer Edward Norman FAA AACR2 29 December 1946 Place of Birth Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia Mathematician 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. 1965 1968 Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), Australian National University in Canberra 1969 1969 Career position - Tutor of Applied Mathematics, Australian National University (7 months) 1969 1971 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 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, Australian National University 1973 1975 Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of New England in New South Wales 1976 1981 Career position - Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of New England 1981 1987 Career position - Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of New England 1987 1993 Career position - Personal Chair of Mathematics, University of New England 1993 Career position - Professor and Chair of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney 1996 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 2002 2002 Award - Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation and Helmholtz Association 2009 2009 Award - Hannan Medal, Australian Academy of Science 2017 2017 Award - Schauder Medal, Juliusz P. Schauder Center for Nonlinear Studies Macquarie University (1964 - )

Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science 1987 - 1993

 The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Professor and Chair, School of Mathematics and Statistics 1993 -

 Hannan Medal, Australian Academy of Science (1994 - )

Awarded the Medal 2009

 Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Elected Fellow 1996

 Dancer, E N (1946-)

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 'Dancer, Edward Norman (Norman)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Dancer, Edward Norman (Norman) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Hannan Medal and Lecture Australian Academy of Science Hannan Medal and Lecture Australian Academy of Science 2022 Journal Article: The work of Norman Dancer Yihong Di The work of Norman Dancer 2019 Discrete and continuous dynamical systems series S 12 7 1807-33