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Kenneth Stuart Williams
Born
20 August 1940 in Croydon, Surrey, England
Canadian citizen since 1971
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EDUCATION
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B.Sc.
(First Class Honours in Mathematics) 1962
University of Birmingham
M.A.
(Mathematics) 1963
University of Toronto
Ph.D.
(Mathematics) 1965
University of Toronto
D.Sc.
(Pure Mathematics) 1979
University of Birmingham
AWARDS:
August
2016 Awarded Paul R. Halmos-Lester R. Ford Award
for expository excellence by the Mathematical Association of America
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS :
1962-65
Teaching Fellow, University of Toronto
1965-66 Lecturer, University of Manchester
1966-68 Assistant Professor, Carleton University
1968-75 Associate Professor, Carleton University
1975-02 Professor, Carleton University
2002- Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor,
Carleton University
ADMINISTRATIVE
POSITIONS :
1971-1975
Assistant Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Carleton University
1980-1984 Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton
University
1997-1998 Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton
University
1998-2000 Director, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
RESEARCH
POSITIONS :
At
various times at Queen's University, University of British Columbia, Université de Nancy, Arizona State University, University
of South Carolina, Macquarie University.
GRADUATE
SUPERVISION :
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1966
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K. McCann, University of
Manchester, M.Sc. Thesis "On the distribution of the residues of a
cubic polynomial modulo a prime p"
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1976
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B.K. Spearman, Carleton
University, M.Sc. Thesis "Some elementary proofs of certain
reciprocity laws"
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1988
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I.G. deMille,
Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "The continued fraction for certain
(1+sqrt(D))/2 with applications to units and class numbers"
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1992
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D. Liu, Carleton University,
Ph.D. Thesis "Dihedral congruences and
binary quadratic forms: a class field theory approach"
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1994
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S. Alaca,
Carleton University, Ph.D. Thesis " p
-integral bases of algebraic number fields"
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2001
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H. Muzaffar,
Carleton University, Ph.D. Thesis "Extensions and analogues of the Chowla-Selberg formula"
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2002
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S. Godin,
Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "Two term class number formulae of Dirichlet type"
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2003
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M. Lemire,
Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "Number of classes of solutions of
the equation x 2 - Dy 2 = 4E"
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2003
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N. Cheng, Carleton University,
M.Sc. Thesis "Convolution sums involving divisor functions"
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2004
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E. McAfee, Carleton University, M.Sc.
Thesis "A three term arithmetic formula of Liouville
type with application to sums of six squares"
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2005
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C. S. Haley, Carleton
University, M.Sc. Thesis "Evaluation of certain infinite series using
theorems of John, Rademacher and Kronecker"
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2010
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M. Lemire,
Carleton University, Ph.D. Thesis "Extensions of the Ramanujan-Mordell formula"
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