Thomas Ward (mathematician)

Thomas Ward (born 3 October 1963) is a British mathematician, currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student Education at the University of Leeds, who works in ergodic theory and dynamical systems and its relations to number theory.

Education

Ward attended Woodlands Primary School in Lusaka, and Waterford Kamhlaba United World College in Swaziland. He studied Mathematics at the University of Warwick from 1982, gaining a PhD under the supervision of Klaus Schmidt in 1989.

Career

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], and in 2016 to the University of Leeds as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student Education[2]. 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)[3]

Works

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[4].

Selected papers
  • with Klaus Schmidt: Mixing automorphisms of compact groups and a theorem of Schlickewei, Invent. Math. 111 (1993), no. 1, 69–76[5]
  • with Qing Zhang: The Abramov-Rokhlin entropy addition formula for amenable group actions, Monatsh. Math. 114 (1992), no. 3-4, 317–329[6]
  • with Douglas Lind and Klaus Schmidt: Mahler measure and entropy for commuting automorphisms of compact groups, Invent. Math. 101 (1990), no. 3, 593–629[7]
  • with Douglas Lind: Automorphisms of solenoids and p-adic entropy, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems 8 (1988), no. 3, 411–419[8]

Books

References
  1. "Durham University appoints new Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Education - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  2. Barson, Rachel. "University appoints Deputy Vice-Chancellors". www.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  3. England, Higher Education Funding Council for. "Committees". Higher Education Funding Council for England. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  4. "A Repulsion Motif in Diophantine Equations". www.maa.org. Mathematical Association of America. September 2011. pp. 584–598. Retrieved 2018-12-19. slightly modified 2018-12-21
  5. Ward, Tom; Schmidt, Klaus (1993-12-01). "Mixing automorphisms of compact groups and a theorem of Schlickewei". Inventiones Mathematicae. 111 (1): 69–76. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.16.6026. doi:10.1007/BF01231280. ISSN 1432-1297.
  6. Zhang, Qing; Ward, Thomas (1992-09-01). "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.
  7. Ward, Tom; Schmidt, Klaus; Lind, Douglas (1990-12-01). "Mahler measure and entropy for commuting automorphisms of compact groups" (PDF). Inventiones Mathematicae. 101 (1): 593–629. doi:10.1007/BF01231517. ISSN 1432-1297.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Everest, Graham; Ward, Thomas (2005). An Introduction to Number Theory. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-1-85233-917-3.
  12. van der Poorten, Alfred; Ward, Thomas; Shparlinski, Igor; Everest, Graham (2003). Recurrence Sequences. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-1-4704-2315-5.
  13. 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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