A. Rod Gover

Ashwin Rod Gover[1][2] is a New Zealand mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is currently employed as a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.[3] He is the PhD students' Adviser for the Department of Mathematics and is the head of the Analysis, Geometry and Topology Research Group at the University of Auckland.[4]

A. Rod Gover
Born
Ashwin Rod Gover
NationalityNew Zealander
Known forInvariant theory problems, operator classification problem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Differential Geometry, Theoretical Physics
ThesisA Geometrical Construction of Conformally Invariant Differential Operators (1989)
Doctoral advisorMichael Eastwood

Education and career

Gover received his secondary education at Tauranga Boys college, where he was Head Boy and Dux. He earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours and Master of Science in Physics at Canterbury University and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Mathematics in 1989 at Oxford. He joined the University of Auckland as a lecturer in 1999, before being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001, Associate Professor in 2005, and Professor in 2008.[5]

Research areas

His current main research areas are

  • Differential geometry and its relationship to representation theory
  • Applications to analysis on manifolds, PDE theory and Mathematical Physics
  • Conformal, CR and related structures

He has published work on a range of topics including integral transforms and their applications to representation theory and quantum groups. His main area of specialisation is the class of parabolic differential geometries. Tractor calculus is important for treating geometries in this class, and a current theme of his work is the further development of this calculus, its relationship to other geometric constructions and tools, as well as its applications to the construction and understanding of local and global geometric invariants and natural differential equations.[6] A list of his publications can be found here.

References
  1. "A. Rod Gover". Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  2. "Professor Rod Gover – The University of Auckland". www.math.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  3. "Professor Rod Gover – The University of Auckland". www.math.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  4. "Rod Gover – Research – MathsDept". www.math.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  5. "PressReader.com – Connecting People Through News". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  6. "Rod Gover – Research – MathsDept". www.math.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
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