Mark Ronan's website
Biography
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After leaving university, Mark
worked in the commercial world for six years. He then went to the west coast
of America for graduate study, and finished his Ph.D. at Oxford. From there
he took up a tenure track job at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and
spent time in Germany (at the University of Braunschweig and the Free
University of Berlin). In 1989 he moved from Chicago to England where he took
up the Mason Chair of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham, returning
three years later to his old position in Chicago. He now lives in London and
is Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College, as well as being
Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to mathematics
research, Mark has taught mathematics at all levels, from basic undergraduate
to advanced graduate courses. He has also taught university courses on the
ancient literature of Mesopotamia, including the Epic
of Gilgamesh. These courses are based on Mark's detailed knowledge of
ancient languages written in cuneiform. Mark's recent book Symmetry and the Monster describes the quest to find all the basic building
blocks for symmetry, and his four BBC Radio 3 broadcasts on this subject
in April and May 2008 were chosen for Pick of the Week on Radio 4. |
