Erskine Programme

Erskine Programme

Honour Roll 1999

Visiting Erskine or Canterbury Fellows for 1999 are listed below in the order of the Department which they visited. The visitor's name, home university or organisation, and the area/s of expertise are listed. Not all Departments have a Fellow in any one year, so you may wish to check other years for Fellows in your area.




Accountancy, Finance & Information Systems

Prof Dieter Fink

Edith Cowan University

Information systems security; information technology

Assoc Prof Andrew L Terry

The University of New South Wales

Fair trading law; franchising law.


Chemical & Process Engineering

Prof Em. Rubin Battino

Wright State University

Thermodynamics, particularly of gases and liquids.

Prof Henry R Bungay III

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bioprocess engineering; biomass refining; environmental engineering

Dr John C Chen

Lehigh University

Fluid flow and heat transfer in vapour liquid systems and particle gas systems

Prof Jerzy Petera

Technical University of Lodz

Chemical engineering; continuum mechanics; transport processes; mathematical modelling; finite element analysis


Chemistry

Prof William Clegg

University of Newcastle

Structural crystallography.

Prof Robert F Curl

Rice University

Physical chemistry.

Dr Stephen Fletcher

CSIRO, Australia

Electrochemistry; surface science.

Prof Nobuhiro Fusetani

University of Tokyo

Chemistry of bioactive marine natural products; marine bio-fouling

Prof Martin Vala

University of Florida

Spectroscopy; photochemistry; quantum theory.


Civil Engineering

Dr Malcolm D Bolton

Cambridge University

Geomechanics; geomechanical engineering; centrifuge testing

Prof Gerhard H Jirka

Universitat Karlsruje, Germany

Environmental fluid mechanics.

Prof Nicholas P Jones

The John Hopkins University

Engineering mechanics; structural dynamics; earthquake engineering

Prof Thomas D O'Rourke

Cornell University

Geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Prof Ted S Vinson

Oregon State University

Geotechnical engineering.


Civil Engineering/Forestry

Dr Robert A Douglas

University of New Brunswick

Forestry road design, materials and construction.


Computer Science

Prof Dr Jorg Biethahn

Universitaet Goettingen, Germany

Simulation modelling and strategy games.

Prof Glen G Langdon Jr

University of California at Santa Cruz

Data compression; digital systems and architecture.

Prof Allen B Tucker, Jr

Bowdoin College

Computer science education; programming languages; natural language programming

Dr Beverley P Woolf

University of Massachusetts

Artificial intelligence in education; 3-D computer animations


Economics

Dr Anindya Banerjee

University of Oxford

Econometrics.

Prof B Curtis Eaton

Simon Fraser University

Applied microeconomics including game theory; industrial organisation; technology

Prof Joop Hartog

University of Amsterdam

Econometrics; labour economies.

Prof Pierre L Siklos

Wilfrid Laurier University

Monetary economics; macroeconomics; applied econometrics


Education

Prof Richard C Anderson

University of Illinois

Educational psychology; cognitive psychology; reading


Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Prof Michael J Kelly

University of Surrey

Semiconductor devices and electronics; microelectronics

Prof Rick P Millane

Purdue University

Image recovery; X-ray crystallography; fibre diffraction

Prof John O'Reilly

Glasgow University

Control systems.

Prof Gerald B Sheble

Iowa State University

Power system analysis, optimisation and deregulation


Geography

Prof Anton Gosar

University of Ljubljana

Geography of tourism.

Assoc. Prof Ian G McKendry

The University of British Columbia

Climatology, especially local wind systems and pollution in urban areas

Prof Roger F McLean

The University of New South Wales

Physical coastal processes; coastal landforms; global climate and sea level change


Geological Sciences

Prof Ralph J Archuleta

University of California

Seismology and strong ground motion studies; earthquake dynamics & tectonics of Sth California

Prof Bernard E Leake

Cardiff University

Petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks; mineralogy of the amphibole group


History

Prof Peter J Cain

Sheffield Hallam University

Political economy of British imperialism; history of theories of Imperialism


Linguistics

Prof Jennifer E Coates

Roehampton Institute, London

English language and literature, especially the speech of women

Prof Alice C Harris

Vanderbilt University

Historical processes underlying syntactic change.


Management

Prof Jack P C Kleijnen

Katholieke University Brabant, Neth.

Management science, including information systems

Prof Herbert J Rotfeld

Auburn University

Advertising; advertising law and regulation promotion; services marketing

Prof William H Starbuck

New York University

Strategic management; organisation behaviour.

Profesor Werner J Ulrich

University of Fribourg

Management science, systems theory.


Mathematics & Statistics

Prof Mark Boyce

Un. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point

Mathematical ecology.

Prof Lou Fishman

University of New Orleans

Mathematics of wave propagation.

Associate Prof Jotun Hein

University of Aarhus, Denmark

DNA sequence analysis; computational biology; population genetics

Prof Edward B Saff

University of South Florida

Approximation theory; potential theory; orthogonal polynomials; complex analysis; numerical dualysis

Prof Joseph A F Thas

University of Ghent

Finite geometry; generalised quadrangles.


Mechanical Engineering

Prof Dan B DeBra

Stanford University

Precision mechanical engineering; instrumentation & control; satellite tests of the general theory of relativity

Prof. Em. Stuart M Dickinson

The University of Western Ontario

Vibrations and stability of structures.

Assoc Prof Ken R Fyfe

University of Alberta

Computation accoustics.

Prof Dr Peter Hagedorn

Institut for Mechanik

Dynamics and vibration.

Dr Antony R Mileham

University of Bath

Design and simulation of manufacturing systems; management of technology innovation; risk management

Dr George Spanos

US Naval Research Laboratory

Materials science and technology.


Philosophy & Religious Studies

Prof William Demopoulos

The University of Western Ontario

Analytic philosophy.

Prof Jay L Garfield

Smith College, Boston

Philosophy of mind; philosophy of technology; Buddhist and Indian philosophy

Prof Jerrold Levinson

University of Maryland

Aesthetics; metaphysics; philosophy of mind.


Physics & Astronomy

Prof Colin A Bates

University of Nottingham

Condensed matter theory.

Dr Frank C Fekel

Tennessee State University

Binary stars; active chromosphere stars; astronomical spectroscopy & interometry

Prof Wayne K Hocking

The University of Western Ontario

Radar observations of the atmosphere; turbulence; meteors


Plant & Microbial Sciences

Dr Gijsbert M Lokhorst

Leiden University

Taxonomy and phylogeny of green algae.


Psychology

Prof Sandra L Calvert

Georgetown University

Developmental psychology; children and the media

Prof William Ickes

The University of Texas - Arlington

Social psychology.

Prof David C Rubin

Duke University

Memory, especially autobiographical memory and everyday memory

Assoc Prof Colleen Ward

The National University of Singapore

Cross-cultural psychology.


Speech & Language Therapy

Prof Jon F Miller

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Child language development and disorders.

Prof David E Yoder

The University of North Carolina

Augmentative and alternative communication; speech and language disorders in severely disabled populations


Zoology

Prof Thomas T Chen

University of Connecticut

Genetics and molecular biology of fish growth regulation

Assoc Prof Janusz M Gebicki

Macquarie University

Biochemistry; free radical chemistry; radiation chemistry

Prof Robert Montgomerie

Queen's University

Animal behaviour; evolutionary biology; statistics.