Department of Mathematical Sciences

CARL J. REES DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware is pleased to sponsor the Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series in memory of Professor Carl Rees and in honor of his distinguished contributions and service to the Mathematics Department and the University.

Carl Rees had a distinguished career at the University of Delaware from 1920 until his retirement in 1967. He advanced through the professorial ranks to Professor of Mathematics and served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics for ten years. He was appointed Dean of the College of Graduate Studies as well as Provost of the University, serving simultaneously in these important posts for a number of years. He served his country in both World War I and World War II and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by General H. H. (Hap) Arnold for his work as an operations analyst.

Prof. Ian H. Sloan

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Prof. Sloan was appointed to a Personal Chair in Mathematics at UNSW in 1983, and became a UNSW Scientia Professor in 1998. He was Head of the School of Mathematics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1992 to 1993. He has completed a term as Chair of the Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics Panel of the Australian Research Council and member of the ARC's Research Grants Committee, and from 1998 to 2000 was President of the Australian Mathematical Society .

He is current President of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for a four year term finishing in late 2006.

He is a chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, which has a major node at UNSW.

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1993. In 1997 he was awarded the ANZIAM Medal by Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM), and in 2001 was awarded the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science.  He is a member of the editorial board of a number of international journals.