Personal Data:
Name: Brian G. Wybourne
Home address: Bydgoska 88A/3, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Office address: Instytut Fizyki UMK, Grudziadzka 5, 87-100
Torun, Poland
Date of Birth: 03.05.1935
Birthplace: Morrinsville, New Zealand
Citizenship: New Zealand
e-mail address: bgw@phys.uni.torun.pl
http://www.phys.uni.torun.pl/~bgw
Education:
1957 - M.Sc.(Hons), physics, Canterbury University College,
Christchurch, New Zealand
1960 - Ph.D , physics, Canterbury University College,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Professional experience:
Assistant Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University 1960-62,
Visiting Scientist: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of
California at Berkeley (Summer 1962).
Associate Physicist, Chemistry Division, Argonne National
Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA 1963-66.
Professor of Physics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 1966-1991.
Head of Physics Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 1982-89
Director of Mount John Observatory, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 1982-89
Visiting Professor (fizyka) Uniwersytet Miko\l{}aja Kopernika, 1991-2
Professor of Physics, Instytut Fizyki, Uniwersytet Miko\l{}aja Kopernika, 1993 -
Profesora (tytul naukowy profesora) - 1999
Awards:
Exchange Professor, Laboratoire Aim\'e Cotton, Orsay, France 1968.
Elected Fellow Royal Society of New Zealand 1969.
Hector Medallist, Royal Society of New Zealand 1969.
Senior Fullbright Award 1974.
Distinguished Visting Lecturer, University of Waterloo, Canada 1975.
British Council Visiting Professor, University of Sussex, UK 1978.
United Nations Development Programme Visiting Professor in
Mathematics and Physics, Qaid-izam University, Islamabad,
Pakistan 1981.
Hartley Visiting Award, Southampton University, Southampton, UK 1990.
Killam Lecturer, University of Windsor, Canada 1990.
Nagrody JM Rektora UMK I Stopnia 1996 i 1999
Other Positions Held at Various Times:
International Secretary, Royal Society of New Zealand
Royal Society of New Zealand Councillor
New Zealand Representative to International Council of Scientific Unions
(Cambridge, Ottawa and Berne meetings)
Research Grant:
1994 Polish KBN :- Symmetry Physics
1997 Polish KBN :- Symmetry Physics II
Memberships and Affiliations:
Royal Society of New Zealand
Research Fields:
Generally applications of symmetry in physics. Specifically:-
spectroscopic properties of
lanthanides and actinides, mathematical and physical applications of Lie groups,
theory of symmetric functions, computing properties of groups, interacting boson
model of nuclei, mesoscopic and many-body systems.
Teaching:
I have at various times taught:- quantum physics, relativity, solid state physics, classical mechanics, nuclear physics, particle physics, group theory,
atomic physics, electromagnetism, physicists conception of the universe,
general physics.
Schools and Conferences (since 1990):
1990 -
- "Combinatorics", Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- "XVIII Int. Coll. Group Theor. Meth. in Physics", Moscow, USSR
- "Moshinsky 70th Birthday Symposium", Mexico City, Mexico
- "Symmetries in Science", Bregenz, Austria
-"First International School on Theoretical Physics", Poznan, Poland
1991 -"Second International School on Excited States of Transition Elements",
Karpacz, Poland
1992 - IV ECAMP, Riga, poster,
- "NATO Advanced Workshop on Quantum Chemistry", Vancouver, Canada
- "Second International School on Theoretical Physics", Poznan, Poland
1993 - "Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics", Florence, Italy
- "Group Theory in Physics Workshop", Rachov, Ukraine
1994 - "Third International School on Theoretical Physics", Poznan, Poland
- "Algebraic Topology, Anyons and Superconductivity", Poznan, Poland
1995 -IX International School of Condensed Matter Physics,
"Electronic Properties of Condensed Matter", Bialowieza, Poland
- "Quantum Groups and their Applications in Physics", Poznan, Poland
1996 - "Fourth International School on Theoretical Physics", Poznan, Poland
- "Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire", March 19-22, 1996, Thurnau, Oberfranken, Germany
1998 - "Minisymposium on Computer Algebra ", Giardini Naxos (Messina, Sicily)
1st to 5th June 1998
- "The Jablonski Centennial Conference", Torun 23-27 July 1998)
- "Representations of finite groups and combinatorics, Magdeburg, Germany August 10-14 1998)
- "Fifth International School on Theoretical Physics", Poznan, Poland, 26th August-2nd September 1998)
- "Hidden Symmetry of Physical Structures II", Rzeszow 20-22 October 1998)
1999 - Minisymposium Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik 19/20 August (1999)
2000 - Vldas Vanagas Memorial Day (Fizikos Institutas, Vilnius, 28 April 2000)
"IV FAMO Meeting", Jurata, Poland 17-22 September 2000
"Symmetry and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter (SSPCM'2000),
Myczkowce, Poland 31 August-6 September 2000