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Thomas Ward
Born (1963-10-03) October 3, 1963 (age 60)
Sherborne, Dorset, England
Alma materUniversity of Warwick
AwardsPaul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Award
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland
Ohio State University
University of East Anglia
Durham University
University of Leeds
Newcastle University
Doctoral advisorKlaus Schmidt

Thomas Ward (born 3 October 1963) is a British mathematician who works in ergodic theory and dynamical systems and its relations to number theory.

Education[edit]

Ward was the fourth child of the physicist Alan Howard Ward and Elizabeth Honor Ward, a physics teacher. He attended Woodlands Primary School in Lusaka, Zambia, Waterford Kamhlaba United World College in Swaziland, and (briefly) the Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester, England. He studied mathematics at the University of Warwick from 1982, gaining an MSc with dissertation entitled "Automorphisms of solenoids and p-adic entropy" in 1986 and a PhD with dissertation entitled "Topological entropy and periodic points for Zd actions on compact abelian groups with the Descending Chain Condition" in 1989, both under the supervision of Klaus Schmidt.

Career[edit]

Ward worked at the University of Maryland in College Park, the Ohio State University, and the University of East Anglia. In 2012 he moved to Durham University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education,[1] in 2016 to the University of Leeds as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student Education,[2] and to Newcastle University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education from 2021 to 2023.[3] He served in editorial roles for the London Mathematical Society from 2002 to 2012 and was a managing editor of Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems from 2012 to 2014. He served on the HEFCE advisory committees for Widening Participation and Student Opportunity (2013–15) and Teaching Excellence and Student Opportunity (2015–17).[4]

Works[edit]

In 2012 Ward, along with Graham Everest (posthumously) was awarded the Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Award for A Repulsion Motif in Diophantine Equations printed in the American Mathematical Monthly.[5]

Selected papers[edit]

Edited proceedings[edit]

Books[edit]

  • People, Places, and Mathematics: A Memoir. Springer Biographies (2023) ISBN 978-3-031-39073-9.
  • with Menny Aka and Manfred Einsiedler: A Journey Through The Realm of Numbers: From Quadratic Equations to Quadratic Reciprocity. Springer Verlag (2020) ISBN 978-3-030-55232-9.[17]
  • with Manfred Einsiedler: Functional Analysis, Spectral Theory, and Applications, Springer Verlag (2017) ISBN 978-3-319-58540-6.[18]
  • with Manfred Einsiedler: Ergodic Theory with a view towards Number Theory, Springer Verlag (2011) ISBN 978-0-85729-020-5.[19]
  • with Graham Everest: An Introduction to Number Theory, Springer Verlag (2005) ISBN 978-1-85233-917-3.[20]
  • with Graham Everest, Alf van der Poorten, and Igor Shparlinski: Recurrence Sequences, American Math. Society (2003) ISBN 978-1-4704-2315-5.[21]
  • with Graham Everest: Heights of Polynomials and Entropy in Algebraic Dynamics, Springer Verlag (1999) ISBN 978-1-85233-125-2.[22]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Durham University appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Education - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  2. ^ Barson, Rachel (10 March 2016). "University appoints Deputy Vice-Chancellors". www.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Newcastle University appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education". Press Office. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  4. ^ England, Higher Education Funding Council for. "Committees". Higher Education Funding Council for England. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  5. ^ "A Repulsion Motif in Diophantine Equations". www.maa.org. Mathematical Association of America. September 2011. pp. 584–598. Retrieved 19 December 2018. slightly modified 2018-12-21
  6. ^ Everest, G.; Miles, R.; Stevens, S.; Ward, T. (27 July 2007). "Orbit-counting in non-hyperbolic dynamical systems". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 2007 (608): 155–182. arXiv:math/0511569. doi:10.1515/CRELLE.2007.056. ISSN 0075-4102. S2CID 2525037.
  7. ^ Einsiedler, Manfred; Lind, Douglas; Miles, Richard; Ward, Thomas (2001). "Expansive subdynamics for algebraic \mathbb{Z}^d-actions". Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 21 (6): 1695–1729. arXiv:math/0104261. doi:10.1017/S014338570100181X. ISSN 1469-4417. S2CID 4037330.
  8. ^ Ward, T.; Everest, G.; Chothi, V. (1 August 1997). "S-integer dynamical systems: periodic points". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 1997 (489): 99–132. doi:10.1515/crll.1997.489.99. ISSN 0075-4102. S2CID 18684743.
  9. ^ Ward, Tom; Schmidt, Klaus (1 December 1993). "Mixing automorphisms of compact groups and a theorem of Schlickewei". Inventiones Mathematicae. 111 (1): 69–76. Bibcode:1993InMat.111...69S. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.16.6026. doi:10.1007/BF01231280. ISSN 1432-1297. S2CID 16067482.
  10. ^ Zhang, Qing; Ward, Thomas (1 September 1992). "The Abramov-Rokhlin entropy addition formula for amenable group actions" (PDF). Monatshefte für Mathematik. 114 (3–4): 317–329. doi:10.1007/BF01299386. ISSN 1436-5081. S2CID 17722034.
  11. ^ Ward, Tom; Schmidt, Klaus; Lind, Douglas (1 December 1990). "Mahler measure and entropy for commuting automorphisms of compact groups" (PDF). Inventiones Mathematicae. 101 (1): 593–629. Bibcode:1990InMat.101..593L. doi:10.1007/BF01231517. ISSN 1432-1297. S2CID 17077751.
  12. ^ Ward, T.; Lind, D. A. (1988). "Automorphisms of solenoids and p-adic entropy*". Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 8 (3): 411–419. doi:10.1017/S0143385700004545. ISSN 0143-3857.
  13. ^ Dynamics : topology and numbers : Conference on dynamics : topology and numbers, July 2-6, 2018, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. Moree, Pieter, 1965-. Providence, Rhode Island. 2020. ISBN 978-1-4704-5454-8. OCLC 1140387201.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ^ Dynamics and numbers : a special program, June 1-July 31, 2014 : international conference, July 21-25, 2014, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. Koli︠a︡da, S. F.,, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik. Providence, Rhode Island. 27 July 2016. ISBN 978-1-4704-2020-8. OCLC 930786391.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ^ Dynamical numbers : interplay between dynamical systems and number theory : a special program, May 1-July 31, 2009; international conference, July 20-24, 2009, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. Koli︠a︡da, S. F., Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik., Dynamical Numbers: Interplay Between Dynamical Systems and Number Theory (2009 : Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM), Bonn, Germany). Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8218-4958-3. OCLC 648146562.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  16. ^ Algebraic and topological dynamics : Algebraic and topological dynamics, May 1-July 31, 2004, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany. Koli︠a︡da, S. F., Manin, I︠U︡. I., Ward, Thomas, 1963-. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. 2005. ISBN 0-8218-3751-6. OCLC 60558944.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. ^ AKA, MENNY. EINSIEDLER, MANFRED. WARD, THOMAS. (2020). JOURNEY THROUGH THE REALM OF NUMBERS : from quadratic equations to quadratic reciprocity. [S.l.]: SPRINGER NATURE. ISBN 978-3-030-55232-9. OCLC 1160926263.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Einsiedler, Manfred; Ward, Thomas (2017). Functional Analysis, Spectral Theory, and Applications. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-319-58539-0.- ebook ISBN 978-3-319-58540-6
  19. ^ Einsiedler, Manfred; Ward, Thomas (2011). Ergodic Theory; with a view towards Number Theory. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0-85729-020-5.- ebook ISBN 978-0-85729-021-2
  20. ^ Everest, Graham; Ward, Thomas (2005). An Introduction to Number Theory. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-1-85233-917-3.
  21. ^ van der Poorten, Alfred; Ward, Thomas; Shparlinski, Igor; Everest, Graham (2003). Recurrence Sequences. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-1-4704-2315-5.
  22. ^ Everest, Graham; Ward, Thomas (1999). Heights of Polynomials and Entropy in Algebraic Dynamics. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-1-84996-854-6.- ebook 978-1-4471-3898-3

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