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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-09-30 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007867b.htm person Hosking Roger John AACR2 28 November 1940 10 May 2022 Place of Birth Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Mathematician University Administrator 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. 1962 1962 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc (hons)), University of Adelaide 1965 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 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 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 Dewar, Robert Leith (1944 - 2024) James Cook University of North Queensland (1970 - 1997)

Professor of Mathematics 1988 - 2010

 ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics) (1974 - )

Chairman, Division of Applied Mathematics, Australian Mathematical Society 1991 - 1992

 'Hosking, Roger John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hosking, Roger John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Fundamentals of fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics Hosking, Roger J. and Dewar, Robert L. Fundamentals of fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics Springer Nature BV 2016 Book: 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 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 Book: First steps in numerical analysis Hosking, R. J. First steps in numerical analysis Hodder Education Publishers 1996 Book: Moving loads on ice plates Squire, Vernon A., Hosking, Roger J., Kerr, Arnold D. and Langhorne, Patricia J. Moving loads on ice plates Dordrecht, Netherlands Springer 1996 Journal Article: Roger John Hosking Metcalfe, Andrew; and Bennetts, Luke Roger John Hosking 2022 Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society 49 3 118-9 Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 2019 Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor Who's who in Australia 2019 55th Southbank, Vic. AAP Directories 2018