CURRICULUM VITAE OF WILLIAM CHEN

 

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, married Phillip Feifan YANG
• Son: Samuel Christopher József, married Rebecca Chi Yan CHAN
• Grandson: Alexander YANG (IN MEMORIAM)
• Granddaughter: Eleanor Samantha Jiying YANG
• Grandson: Bryce Alexander King Lum CHEN
• Grandson: Benedict Henry Jichao YANG

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 (Personal Chair), Macquarie University, 2005-2006
• Member of Academic Senate, Macquarie University, 2006
• Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Macquarie University, 2007-

Membership of Learned Societies:

• London Mathematical Society, member since 1980, currently Senior Member
• American Mathematical Society, member from 1981 to 2012
• Australian Mathematical Society, member since 1991, currently Fellow

Membership of Editorial Boards and Committees:

• Associate Editor, Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, 1994-2006
• Editor (with W.T. Gowers, H. Halberstam, W.M. Schmidt and R.C. Vaughan), Analytic Number Theory: Essays in Honour of Klaus Roth (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Editor (with A. Srivastav and G. Travaglini), A Panorama of Discrepancy Theory (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2107, Springer Verlag, 2014)
• Special Guest Editor (with R.C. Vaughan), Roth memorial issue of Mathematika, 2017
• Member of Editorial Board (Managing Editor), Mathematika, 2017-

Membership of Mathematics Committees:

• Member, Australian Mathematical Society Medal Committee, 2006-2008; chair, 2007

Invited Plenary and Special 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
• Monte Carlo and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, University of Warsaw, 2010
• Wong Yung-Chow Lecture, University of Hong Kong, 2012
• Workshop on Discrepancy Theory, Villa Cipressi, Varenna, 2016
• Workshop on Discrepancy, RICAM, University of Linz, 2018
• Workshop on Discrepancy, CIRM Marseille-Luminy, 2020

Visits to Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach:

• Diophantische Approximationen, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996
• Numerical Integration and its Complexity, 2001
• (Programme Director) Discrepancy Theory and its Applications, 2004

Organizational Work:

• Organizer (with R.C. Vaughan), Symposium on Analytic Number Theory, Imperial College London, 1985
• Programme Director (with B. Chazelle and A. Srivastav), Discrepancy Theory and its Applications, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2004
• Conference Director and Chair of Programme Committee, 50th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2006
• Organizer (with A. Srivastav and G. Travaglini), Workshop on Discrepancy Theory and Related Areas, Villa Cipressi, Varenna, 2007
• Organizer (with M. Lacey, M. Lifshits and J. Pipher), Workshop on Small Ball Inequalities in Analysis, Probability, and Irregularities of Distribution, American Institute of Mathematics, 2008
• Organizer (with D. Bilyk, F. Kuo, M. Lacey, V. Temlyakov, R. Ward and H. Wozniakowski), Semester Program on Higher-dimensional Approximation, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, 2014
• Organizer (with D. Bilyk, L. Brandolini, A. Srivastav and G. Travaglini), Workshop on Discrepancy Theory, Villa Cipressi, Varenna, 2016

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, 2017
• University of Hong Kong, 2012 (Wong Yung-Chow Visiting Lecturer in Mathematics)
• Brown University, 2014

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, Pennsylvania State University, New York University, Yeshiva University
• Canada: University of Toronto
• Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong
• Singapore: National University of Singapore
• Australia: Australian National University, University of Adelaide, University of New South Wales, Macquarie University