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Entity titleSchool of MathematicsEntity identifier150Entity typeAgencyDate range2020 - DescriptionThe Department of Mathematics was one of the first departments established within the Faculty of Science and the departments first professor, Professor K. C. Westfold was appointed in November 1960. In 1965 Professor Westfold was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science and Professor G. B. Preston succeeded him as Chairman of the department of Mathematics (to Dec.1967). The chairmanship of the department at that time rotated at three year intervals, and since 1970 at two year intervals. The Mathematics building was completed in 1970. By 1965 the department was divided internally into separate pure mathematics, applied mathematics and mathematical statistics sections. Members of the university's Computer Centre were also regarded as staff of the Mathematics department. In 1998, the Department's name was changed to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and its activities expanded to include the Caulfield Campus and in 2002, following a restructure of the Science Faculty, it was renamed the School of Mathematical Sciences, which broadly groups its research program into three main areas: Applied and Computational Mathematics, Pure Mathematics and Stochastic Processes. 1961-1964 Kevin Charles Westfold 1971-1972 Rene Francois Edouard Van der Borght 1070, 1972-1973 John Boris Miller 1974-1976 Bruce Rutherfurd Morton 1977-1979, 1985-1988 Gordon Bamford Preston 1980-1984 Peter Derrick Finch 1989 Warren John Ewens 1990-1993 Joint:- Warren John Ewens & Joseph John Monoghan 1994-1997 Roger Hamilton James Grimshaw 1998-2000 Michael Anthony Page 2001-2002 David John Karoly 2003-2008 Alan Pryde 2009-2013 Kate Smith-Miles 2014-? Philip Hall 2020 Warwick Tucker

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