Malcolm MacCallum
Malcolm AH MacCallum (* around 1944 ) is a British cosmologist, astrophysicist and applied mathematician.
MacCallum studied from 1963 at Cambridge University (King's College) with a master’s degree in 1970 and a doctorate in 1971. He began and completed his dissertation on spatially homogeneous cosmologies in general relativity under Dennis Sciama (who went to Oxford in 1971) at George FR Ellis . This resulted in several works with Ellis on their classification, exact solutions, theoretical and their observable and dynamic aspects. As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of California, Berkeley with Abraham H. Taub , where he worked on mean Lagrangian for gravitational waves. 1970 to 1976 he was at Kings College in Cambridge, where he was a fellow. In 1976 he became a Lecturer , 1981 Reader and 1986 Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary College, University of London . From 1993 to 1996 he headed the Mathematics Faculty, was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1987 to 1990 and 1996 to 1999, and from 1999 to 2002 he was Head of the Faculty of Computer Science there. He retired in 2009 and was visiting professor at the University of Bristol and director of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research from 2009 to 2012 .
Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Catania (1977/78) and in 1988 at Monash University in Melbourne as well as visiting scholar at the Institut Henri Poincaré (1991).
In addition to his research focus on cosmology (anisotropic and inhomogeneous cosmologies, especially Bianchi cosmologies), theory of gravitational waves, black holes, asymptotics and exact solutions of the field equations of general relativity, he also deals with computer algebra (especially with the systems Reduce and Sheep) Applications in general relativity, but also in general with differential equations. He also delved into twistor theory with Roger Penrose .
With Hans Stephani and others, he published a standard work on exact solutions in general relativity in 1980.
From 2010 to 2013 he is President of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, which was a founding member in 1971. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society .
Fonts
- with George FR Ellis, Roy Maartens Relativistic Cosmology , Cambridge University Press 2012
- with Ellis: A class of homogeneous cosmological models , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 12, 1969, pp. 108-141, Part 2 Observations , Volume 19, 1970, pp. 31-64
- Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies , in Stephen Hawking , Werner Israel General Relativity. An Einstein centennial survey , Cambridge University Press 1979, pp. 533-580
- with Hans Stephani , Dietrich Kramer, Eduard Herlt Exact solutions of Einstein's field equations , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaft, Cambridge University Press 1980, 2nd edition 2003 (with Cornelius Honselaers)
- Editor with Ellis, Andrzej Krasinski Golden Oldies in General Relativity: Hidden Gems , Springer Verlag 2013
- with Alexander V. Mikhailov (Editor) Algebraic theory of differential equations , London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Cambridge University Press 2009
- Editor with others: Algebraic computing in general relativity: lecture notes from the First Brazilian School on Computer Algebra (Rio de Janeiro 1989), Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994
- Edited with Francis J. Wright Algebraic computing with REDUCE: lecture notes from the First Brazilian School on Computer Algebra , Clarendon Press 1991
- Editor: General relativity and gravitation: proceedings of the 11th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Stockholm, July 6 - 12, 1986 , Cambridge University Press 1987
- Editor with WB Bonnor, Jamal Islam Classical general relativity: proceedings of the conference on classical (non-quantum) general relativity, City University London 21.-22. December 1983 , Cambridge University Press 1984
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ He also published the English edition of Stephani Differential equations - their solutions using symmetry 1989
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | MacCallum, Malcolm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacCallum, Malcolm AH |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cosmologist and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1944 |