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Brown, Gavin (1942 - )

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Mathematician and Science administrator
Born: 27 February 1942  Lundin Links, Fife, Scotland
Gavin Brown is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. He is an executive board member of the Australian government’s Business, Industry and Higher Education Round Table and was the inaugural Chairman of the Group of Eight, Australia’s leading research universities. He is a former Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Science, and a former Council member of the Australian Research Council. Taken from http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=10&newsstoryid=625
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1963Master of Arts (MA) completed at University of St Andrews, Scotland
1966Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
1966Junior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1966 - 1975Assistant Lecturer then Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK
1967 - 1968Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, USA
1974 - 1975Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington, USA
1975 - 1992Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of New South Wales
1977Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize received from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
1979Visiting Professor at the University of York, UK
1981 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1982Australian Mathematical Society Medal received
1986Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK
1989 - 1992Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales
1992 - 1993Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Adelaide
1992 - 1993Member of the Australian Research Council
1993 - 1994Vice-President of the Australian Academy of Science
1994 - 1996Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide

 
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