Robert Smith?

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Robert Smith? (actually Robert Joseph Smith , born October 28, 1972 in Australia ) is an Australian - Canadian mathematician who became internationally known for his scientific work on zombies . He has also published several books on the Doctor Who television series and a textbook on the use of mathematical models to study infectious diseases.

The question mark is looking at Smith? as part of his name. He also uses the name Smith in his publications ? on. Officially, however, his name is Smith .

Life

Smith? studied mathematics at Macquarie University in Sydney and received his bachelor's degree in 1994 . He then moved to the Canadian McMaster University , where he received his master's degree in 1996 and his doctorate in 2001 . In his doctoral thesis, he examined the self-cycling fermentation technology , which can be used in wastewater treatment and the disposal of toxic waste .

After completing his doctorate, he worked at the University of Western Ontario , where he first dealt with the mathematical study of disease, at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . While living in the United States , did Smith take? Canadian citizenship in addition to Australian citizenship .

Today he is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa . In 2008, Smith released? the textbook Modeling Disease Ecology with Mathematics . In 2009 he was involved in the creation of a work in which the outbreak of a zombie epidemic was mathematically modeled. This work was also reported in international media. Smith? published other articles and a book on zombies in the following years.

Smith received further media coverage? through a publication with his student Valerie Tweedle from 2012. It examines the hype surrounding pop singer Justin Bieber .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Strengthening Ontario's innovation economy . news.ontario.ca, July 31, 2008
  2. ↑ Sarah Griffiths: How MATHS Could save you from the zombie apocalypse: Equation shows why the living dead are viruses of the monster world . Daily Mail, July 31, 2013
  3. ↑ Pallab Ghosh: Science ponders 'zombie attack' . BBC News, August 18, 2009
  4. ↑ Kathy English: The man in question is Smith? . The Star, August 22, 2009
  5. ^ Profile at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa
  6. ↑ Philip Munz, Ioan Huden, Joe Imad and Robert J. Smith ?: When zombies attack !: Mathematical modeling of an outbreak of zombie infection . In Jean Michel Tchuenche and Christinah Chiyaka: Infectious Disease Modeling Research Progress . Nova Science, 2009
  7. ↑ Dave Weatherall: uOttawa biology student and math professor create mathematical model explaining the most contagious disease of our time: Bieber Fever ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gazette.uottawa.ca archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . University of Ottawa Gazette, June 26, 2012
  8. ↑ Shlomo Leap: A Mathematical Explanation Of The Justin Bieber Phenomenon . Business Insider, June 7, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Smith ?, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Robert Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia