ROD YAGER
BSc (Sydney), PhD (ANU)
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Position: | Senior Lecturer | |
| Office: | E7A 404 | ||
| Phone: | [61-(0)2] 9850 8934 | ||
| Fax: | [61-(0)2] 9850 8114 | ||
| Email: | rody@maths.mq.edu.au | ||
| Website: | rutherglen.ics.mq.edu.au/~rodyager/ | ||
Rod Yager was an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, before pursuing postgraduate studies at the ANU and in Paris between 1978 and 1981. He then spent some time as a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Oklahoma State University, before returning to Australia to take up a position at Macquarie University in 1986, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. He served as Head of Department from 1997 to 2003. Rod's mathematical passion is number theory, with particular interest in the the amazingly rich arithmetic properties of elliptic curves. Rod also has a longstanding interest in the teaching and assesment of secondary school mathematics, and is an active member of his local church.