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Mathematician

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Ph. D., Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Canada 1974
Diss. Contributions to Combinatorial Lattice Theory. Adviser: Dr. George Grätzer
B. Sc., Mathematics, McMaster University, Canada 1969
 
Employment History
1997- Professor (School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa)
1986-1997 Professor (Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa)
1988-1991 Chair (Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa)
1991-1992
  1. Visiting Professor (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany)
  2. Visiting Professor (Canada/U.S.S.R. Scientific Exchange, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
  3. Visiting Professor (Canada/U.S.S.R. Scientific Exchange, Siberian Branch, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk)
  4. Visiting Professor (Ontario/Jinan Scientific Exchange, Nanjing Normal Univeristy, Nanjing, People's Republic of China)
  5. Visiting Professor (Université de Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France)
1985
  1. Visiting Professor (Paris - National Research Council, Canada / France Scientific Exchange)
  2. Visiting Professor (Changsha Railway Institute, People's Republic of China)
  3. Research Consultative Professor (Wuhan Iron and Steel University, Wuhan, People's Republic of China)
1982
  1. Professeur Associé (Université de Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France)
  2. Professeur Associé (Institut de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble, Université de Grenoble I, Grenoble, France)
1981 Visiting Associate Professor (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
1981-1986 Professor (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Calgary)
1975-1978 Assistant Professor (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary)
1974-1975
    Postdoctoral Fellow (National Research Council of Canada)
  1. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
  2. Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Federal Republic of Germany
 
Scientific Journals and Conferences
1984- ORDER
A Journal on the Theory of Ordered Sets and its Applications (Founding Editor)
Order

DISCRETE MATHEMATICS and ALGEBRA UNIVERSALIS (Editorial Boards).,
Journal Referee for numerous other journals.

Scientific program committee for numerous conferences, bearing both on areas of pure mathematics (lattice theory, ordered sets, general algebra) as well as on computational mathematics (algorithms and data structures). Most recently, ORDAL: Order and Decision-Making (1996), as co-director at the University of Ottawa.