Derek Abbott
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| Born | May 3, 1960 South Kensington, London, UK <tr><th>Residence</th><td>Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia</td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td>Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British - Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australian</td></tr><tr><th>Field</th><td>Physicist and Electronic Engineer</td></tr><tr><th>Institution</th><td>University of Adelaide</td></tr><tr><th>Alma Mater</th><td>LUT and University of Adelaide</td></tr><tr><th>Academic Advisor</th><td>Kamran Eshraghian, Bruce Davis</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Students</th><td>Gregory P. Harmer </br> Said F. Al-sarawi </br> Samuel P. Mickan </br> Bradley S. Ferguson </br> Adrian P. Flitney </br> Mark D. McDonnell</td></tr><tr><th>Known for</th><td>Parrondo's paradox theory </br> Stochastic theory</br> Experimental T-ray imaging</td></tr> |
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Derek Abbott (May 3, 1960 in South Kensington, London, UK) is a physicist and electronic engineer. He is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is notable for leading theoretical work in the development of Parrondo's paradox, contributions to the field of stochastic resonance, and experimental contributions to T-ray imaging.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Career
[edit] Achievements
[edit] Publications
[edit] Honours and Awards
[edit] Erdős number
Abbott's Erdős number is 4. His path to Erdős is as follows:
- E. S. Key, M. M. Kłosek, and D. Abbott, "On Parrondo's paradox: how to construct unfair games by composing fair games," ANZIAM J., 47, no. 4, pp. 495-511, (2006).
- M. M. Kłosek, B.J. Matkowsky, Z. Schuss, "First-order dynamics driven by rapid Markovian jumps," SIAM J. Appl. Math., 49, no. 6, pp. 1811-1833, (1989).
- R. O. Davies and Z. Schuss, "A proof that Henstock's integral includes Lebesgue's," J. London Math. Soc., 2, pp. 561-562, (1970).
- R.O. Davies and P. Erdös, "Splitting almost-disjoint collections of sets into subcollections admitting almost-transversals," Colloq. Math. Soc. Janos Bolyai, 10, North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 307-322, (1975).
[edit] Scientific Genealogy
Abbott's scientific genealogy via his primary doctoral advisor runs as follows:
- 1774, MA, University of Cambridge, John Cranke
- 1779, BA, University of Cambridge, Thomas Jones
- 1808, BA, University of Cambridge, Adam Sedgwick
- 1830, MA, University of Cambridge, William Hopkins
- 1854, BA, University of Cambridge, Edward John Routh
- 1865, BA, University of Cambridge, John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) Image:Nobel.png
- 1880, BA, University of Cambridge, Joseph John Thomson Image:Nobel.png
- 1903, MA, University of Cambridge, John Sealy Townsend
- 1923, DPhil, University of Oxford, Victor Albert Bailey
- 1948, MSc, University of Sydney, Ronald Ernest Aitchison
- 1964, PhD, University of Sydney, Peter Harold Cole
- 1980, PhD, University of Adelaide, Kamran Eshraghian
- 1995, PhD, University of Adelaide, Derek Abbott
[edit] See Also
[edit] External Links
- Derek Abbott's homepage
- Mathematics genealogy project: Abbott's scientific genealogy
- Fellow of the IEEE citation
- Abbott's Fellow IEEE biography
- 2004 Tall Poppy Award citation
- 2005 Eureka Prize People's Choice Award for Science list of finalists
- Abbott's COSnet profile
- Nanotechnology network profile
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
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