Professor Derek W. Robinson
Centre for Mathematics and its Applications
School of Mathematical Sciences
Australian National University
Professor
Derek Robinson
School of Mathematical Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Tel: (06) 249 0795 Fax: (06) 249 5549
Biographical note: Although of Irish background, Derek grew up in Southern England.
His education was at
Oxford, with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1957
and a D.Phil in Theoretical Physics in 1960.
He has worked in Switzerland, Germany, France and the USA.
Derek spent ten years in
Marseille as Professor of Theoretical Physics
before moving to Australia.
He was Professor of Mathematics at the
University of New South Wales from 1978-1982.
Since then he has been at the
Institute of Advance Studies at the
Australian National University.
From 1988-1992 Derek was Chairman of the Academic Board
and until 1996 he was President of the
Australian Mathematical Society.
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