CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Details:
- Full Name: William Wai Lim Chen
- Date of Birth: 19 April 1956
- Place of Birth: Hong Kong
- Wife: Lily Fong Ly
- Daughter: Abigail Joanne Helen
- Son: Samuel Christopher Jozsef
Academic Qualifications:
- BSc, University of London, 1978
- ARCS, Royal College of Science, 1978
- Governors' Prize in Mathematics, Imperial College of Science
and Technology, 1978
- PhD, University of London, 1981
- DIC, Imperial
College of Science and Technology, 1981
Academic Positions:
- Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, Imperial
College London, 1981-1990
- Senior Tutor, Department
of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 1987-1990
- Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Macquarie University, 1991-1993
- Head of Department, Department
of Mathematics, Macquarie University, 1993-1996
- Associate Professor in Mathematics,
Macquarie University, 1994-2004
- Head of Department, Department of Mathematics,
Macquarie University, 2003-2005
- Professor of Mathematics, Macquarie
University, 2005-2006
- Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Macquarie
University, 2007-
Membership of Learned Societies:
Membership of Editorial Boards:
Membership of Mathematics Committees:
Invited Plenary Talks:
- Symposium on Analytic Number Theory,
Imperial College London, 1985
- British Mathematical Colloquium, University
of East Anglia, 1990
- St Petersburg Mathematical Society,
1995
- Workshop on Discrepancy Theory and its
Applications, University of Kiel, 1998
- Workshop on the Interface of Number
Theory and Probability, University of Illinois, 2000
Visits to Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach:
Conference Organization:
- Organizer, Symposium on Analytic Number
Theory, Imperial College London, 1985
- Programme Director,
Discrepancy
Theory and its Applications,
Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2004
- Conference Director,
50th
Annual Meeting
of the Australian
Mathematical Society,
2006
- Co-Organizer, Workshop
on Discrepancy Theory and Related Areas, Villa
Cipressi, Varenna, 2007
- Co-Organizer, Workshop
on Small Ball Inequalities in Analysis, Probability, and Irregularities
of Distribution,
American
Institute of Mathematics,
2008
Academic Visits:
- University of Colorado, 1983
- University of New South Wales, 1987
- Macquarie University, 1987
- Rutgers University, 1992, 1994, 1995,
1998
- University of Illinois, 1992, 1995,
1998
- Imperial College London, 1995
- Steklov Institute of Mathematics in
St Petersburg, 1995
- University of Ulm, 1995
- University of York, 1997
- Brigham Young University, 1999
- University of Milan-Bicocca, 2002, 2004
- Erwin Schrödinger Institute in
Vienna, 2002
Colloquium and Seminar Talks:
- England: University of Cambridge, University
of Oxford, Imperial College London, Kings College London, Queen
Mary and Westfield College London, Royal Holloway College, University
of Bristol, University of York, University of Sheffield, University
of Nottingham, University of Exeter, University of East Anglia,
University of Sussex
- Wales: University College Cardiff
- Russia: Steklov Institute of Mathematics
in St Petersburg
- Germany: University of Ulm, University
of Kiel
- Austria: Erwin Schrödinger Institute
in Vienna, University of Salzburg
- Italy: University of Milan-Bicocca
- United States: University of Illinois,
University of Colorado, Brigham Young University
- Canada: University of Toronto
- Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong
- Singapore: National University of Singapore
- Australia: Australian National University,
University of Adelaide, Macquarie University