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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2003-03-26 human Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004451b.htm person Street Anne Penfold AM AACR2 11 October 1932 28 December 2016 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Mathematician Educator Anne Street was a mathematician specialising in combinatorical designs, binary arrays and Ramsey theory who held positions at universities, both within Australia and abroad, from 1953. She became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Queensland in 1985 and headed the University's Centre for Combinatorics (later the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing). Street was active in professional organisations including the Australian Mathematics Trust and as a founding member and President of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. The Australian Mathematical Society awards the Anne Penfold Street Award. 1953 1954 Career position - Tutor in Chemistry, University Women's College, Melbourne 1954 1954 Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Melbourne 1954 1956 Career position - Demonstrator in Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1956 1956 Education - Master of Science (MSc) in Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1957 1957 Career position - Tutor in Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1966 1966 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics, University of Illinois, USA 1966 1967 Career position - Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, University of Illinois, USA 1967 1970 Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Queensland 1969 1970 Career position - Izaac Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics, University of Alberta, Canada 1970 1974 Career position - Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Queensland August 1973 August 1973 Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics at McGill University in Canada September 1973 December 1973 Career position - Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 1974 1974 Career position - Director of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia 1975 1985 Career position - Reader in Mathematics, University of Queensland July 1980 August 1980 Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Reading, UK September 1980 October 1980 Career position - Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba in Canada November 1980 December 1980 Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, USA September 1981 September 1981 Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitabo, Canada January 1982 January 1982 Career position - Visitor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia January 1983 February 1983 Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada 1983 1996 Career position - Member, Australian Mathematics Problems Committee January 1984 April 1984 Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada April 1984 June 1984 Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama, USA 1985 1997 Career position - Professor of Mathematics (personal chair), University of Queensland July 1986 July 1986 Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada September 1987 December 1987 Career position - Visiting Erskine Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand 1989 1989 Career position - Director of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia 1990 Career position - Founding Member, Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications (ICA) 1990 1997 Career position - Director of the Centre for Combinatorics, University of Queensland 1990 2001 Career position - Founding Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics March 1990 April 1990 Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Algebra, Combinatorics and Analysis at Auburn University in Alabama, USA 1991 1995 Career position - Australian Senior Research Fellow, University of Queensland 1991 2014 Career position - Editor, Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications 1994 1994 Award - B. H. Neumann Award (jointly), Australian Mathematics Trust 1994 1996 Career position - Deputy Chair, Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee 1995 2001 Career position - Board Member, Australian Mathematics Trust 1996 1996 Award - DMath (honoris causa), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 1996 2001 Career position - President, Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee 1996 2002 Career position - President, Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications 1997 Career position - Director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing, University of Queensland 1997 Career position - Professorial Fellow (part-time), University of Queensland 1997 1997 Life event - Retired 1997 1998 Career position - President, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia founding President, Combinatorial Mathematical Society of Australasia 1999 1999 Award - Medal for Outstanding Service, Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia 2014 2014 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for significant service to science education in the field of mathematics The University of Queensland (1910 - )

Professor of Mathematics 1985 - 1997; Director of the Centre for Combinatorics 1990 - 1997; Director, Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing 1998 - 2004

 Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia

Director 1974 and 1989; President 1997 - 1998; awarded Medal for Outstanding Service 1999

 B. H. Neumann Award for Excellence in Mathematics Enrichment, Australian Mathematics Trust (1992 - )

Received the Award (jointly) 1994

 Australian Mathematics Trust (1992 - )

Baord Member 1995 - 2001

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 'Street, Anne Penfold', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Street, Anne Penfold Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Mathematics: Anne Street, combinatorial mathematics Mathematics: Anne Street, combinatorial mathematics 1994 Wisenet : Journal of the Women in Science Enquiry Network 34 21 Resource: BH Neumann Award recipients Australian Mathematics Trust BH Neumann Award recipients Australian Mathematics Trust 2025 Journal Article: Special issue in honour of Anne Penfold Street AM 11 Oct 1932 - 28 Dec 2016: reminiscences of Anne Penfold Street Street, Deborah; Oates-Wuilliams, Sheila; Donovan, Diane; and Billington, Elizabeth Special issue in honour of Anne Penfold Street AM 11 Oct 1932 - 28 Dec 2016: reminiscences of Anne Penfold Street 2018 Australasian journal of combinatorics 71 3 324-35 Journal Article: Anne Penfold Street 11 October 1932 to 28 December 2016 Donovan, Diane Anne Penfold Street 11 October 1932 to 28 December 2016 2017 Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society 44 1 33-5 Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 2001 Herd, Margaret Who's who in Australia 2001 38 Melbourne Crown Content 2001 Biographical cuttings on Anne Street, Professor, mathematician National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Biographical cuttings on Anne Street, Professor, mathematician Cuttings Files BIOG