Biography of John C


	Biography of John C. Butcher
	Born
	31 March 1933 Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand citizen
	Present Position
	Honorary Research Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Auckland
	Research Interests
	Numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations
	Education
	University of New Zealand (Auckland University College), 1952-1955; B.Sc, 1955. University of New Zealand (Auckland University College), 1956; M.Sc, 1956. University of Sydney, 1956-1960; Ph.D, 1961. University of Sydney, 1971, D.Sc, 1971
	Positions Held
	Lecturer, University of Sydney, 1959-1961. Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, 1961-1964. Computer Scientist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1965-1966. Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1966-1979. Head of Mathematics Department, University of Auckland, 1967-1973. Founded Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980. Professor of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 1980-1988. Head of Applied and Computational Maths Unit, University of Auckland, 1989-1994, 1997-1998. Professor of Mathematics, University of Auckland, 1989-1998. Honorary Research Professor, 1999- .
	Membership
	Elected Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand, 1980 Member and Past President New Zealand Mathematical Society Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics
	Awards
	Award for Mathematical Research, NZ Mathematical Society, 1991 For establishing new fundamental connections between analytic stability properties and algebraic properties of numerical methods for non-linear differential equations; for implementing new methods; and for an outstanding monograph on Runge-Kutta and general linear methods.
	Hector Memorial Medal, Royal Society Of NZ, 1996 For research in the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations.
	Visiting Positions and Conferences
	1997	August, September - Berlin, Germany; Alexisbad, Germany; Grado, Italy
	1996	January, February, March - Troy, New York April, May - Brisbane, Australia May, June - Phoenix, Arizona; Toronto, Canada
	1995	January - Phoenix, Arizona; Stockholm, Sweden; London, England March - Stanford, California (Gear conference) June - Geiranger, Norway; Dundee, Scotland August, September - São Jose do Rio Preto and Curitiba, Brazil Porto and Coimbra, Portugal; Valladolid and Zaragoza, Spain September to December - Rennes, France; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Cambridge, England
	1994	July - New Orleans; Atlanta, Georgia August, September - Phoenix, Arizona; Miskolc, Hungary; Rennes, Marseilles, France
	1993	August, September - Brazil (Rio de Janeiro; Uberlandia) November, December - USA (Lafayette; Phoenix, Arizona; Raleigh, Nth Carolina)
	1992	Co-organiser of: "International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations", Auckland 4-8 January 1993 (in honour of J. C. Butcher's 60th birthday) University Of Durham - Workshop on numerical methods for evolutionary problems
	1991	University of Manchester, England (3 months) Universiteit te Leiden, Holland. Kloostermann Professor (2 months) Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona (3 months)
	1990	Novosibirsk, USSR (by invitation) (2 weeks) Vienna, Scientific Computation Conference (in honour of H. J. Stetter) Helsinki conference on Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
	1986	AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey (2 months) Imperial College, London (3 months) Dortmund, Germany
	1979	Linköping, Sweden, visiting Professor (several months) Bonn, Germany (for a few months)
	1972	Dundee, Scotland (8 months) Vienna, Austria (4 months)
	1970	Various British Universities (few days each) Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,Sweden (one week) Innsbruck, Austria Invited Speaker, 400th anniversary, Universität Innsbruck (one week) Prof à l'école d'été, Bréau-sans-Nappe, France (3 weeks)
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Biography of John C. Butcher