Full Name:
Edmund Frederick ROBERTSON
Date and place of Birth :
1 June 1943, St Andrews, Scotland
Education :
Madras College, St Andrews (Tullis prize, Sir William
Robertson prize, Dux in Science 1961)
University of St Andrews (Taylor Thompson Bursary)
University of Warwick
Degrees :
B.Sc. University of St Andrews (1965)
M.Sc. University of Warwick (1966)
Ph.D. University of Warwick (1968)
Honours :
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1997)
Employment :
Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, University of St Andrews, 1968-1984
Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, University of St Andrews, 1984-95
Professor of Mathematics, University of St Andrews, 1995-
Positions in University of St Andrews :
Senate 1987-1989, 1991-
Steering Committee of Senate 1993-98
Head of Pure Mathematics Division 1988-1991
Head of Algebra Research Team 1988-97
Director of Micro laboratory 1987-1989, 1991-1994
Member of Equipment Committee 1988-97
Research Student Admissions 1991-1993, 1995-7
Head of School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences 1997-2000
Head of School of Mathematics and Statistics 2000-2001
Associate Director CIRCA 2000-
Member :
Edinburgh Mathematical Society; Committee
Member 1986-1989;
Policy Advisory Group 1996-9; Whittaker Prize Committee 1996-97
External Examiner :
University of Dundee 1977-81, University of
Aberdeen
1991-95, Heriot-Watt University 1995-8, University of Liverpool 2000-
Ph.D. Examiner :
Cambridge, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Manchester,
Cardiff,
Warwick, Bangor
External Assessor:
University of Cambridge Fellowship Competition 1991,
Keele University Chair Appointment 1999, Napier University Mathematics
and Physics 1999
Awards :
Winner of the 1992 Partnership Award for innovation in
Mathematics Teaching in Higher Education Prize of £4 500 awarded jointly for the
Mathematical MacTutor teaching software
Ph.D. Students:
Publications:
Joint editor of nine conference volumes
Joint author of seventeen teaching books
Author of about 100 papers in mathematics journals
Edmund Robertson, December 1999