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Education

B.Sc. Honors.	University of Otago	New Zealand	Mathematics	1977
Ph.D.	University of Waikato	New Zealand	Mathematics	1984

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2008-	Full Professor	Applied Mathematics	University of Western Ontario
2002-2008	Associate Professor	Applied Mathematics	University of Western Ontario
1999-2002	Assistant Professor	Applied Mathematics	University of Western Ontario
1995-1999	Adjunct Professor	Mathematics	Simon Fraser University
1990-1995	Lecturer	Mathematics	Okanagan Univ. College
1989-1990	Research Associate	Mathematics	University of British Columbia
1988-1989	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Western Washington Univ.
1986-1988	Postdoctoral Fellow	Mathematics	University of British Columbia
1985-1986	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	Univ. of Southern California
1984-1985	Assistant Professor	Mathematics	South Dakota State Univ.

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Algorithmic approaches to nonlinear mathematics.
Creation, theoretical development, implementation of new geometric, algebraic and symbolic-numeric algorithms for nonlinear PDE.
Key Words: Nonlinear PDE, Jet spaces, Analysis, Grobner Bases, Differential Algebra, Commutative Algebra, Overdetermined systems, Lie groups and Lie pseudogroups, Differential Geometry, Algorithms, Formal Power Series Solutions.

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ISSAC Program committee
Co-chair for the Fields special meeting, Symbolic Computational Algebra 2002 (SCA 2002) July 15-19, UWO, London, Canada
Reviewer of NSF and NSERC grant applications
Chair, Local Organising Committee for ISSAC 2001 (Intn’l Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation) UWO, London Canada, July 22-25, 2001
Co-organiser with (M. Monagan) of the West Coast Meeting on Computer Algebra, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, 1997
Co-organiser (with A. Bocharov, T.W. Wolf) Special Sessions, IMACS Meeting on Computer Algebra, Maui, July 1997
Organizer of the West Coast Workshop on Symmetries and Differential Equations (University of British Columbia, 1992)

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Univ. of Minnesota, Applications of Algebraic Geometry, Sept – Dec 2006. NSF-funded long term member at the Institute for Mathematics & its Applications (IMA)
Best Poster Prize: K. Hazaverh, G. Reid and J. Verschelde (2002). “Numeric-Symbolic Completion of Differential Systems using Homotopy Continuation”, International Symposium for Symbolic and Algebraic Computation 2002, Lille, France.
U.G.C. Postgraduate Scholarship, 1980-84

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