Faculty of Science Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Dr Iain AITCHISON
Position: Senior Fellow (Associate)
Email: I.Aitchison@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Room: 157
Ext. Number: 46798
Webpage: www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~iain/Welcome.html
Research Group:- Geometry & Topology
Recent Publications:
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  • Localising Dehn's lemma and the loop theorem in 3-manifolds(2004) more

Diploma of Education Melbourne State College 1976
MSc Melbourne 1980

PhD Berkeley, California 1984 (Earle C. Anthony Fellow)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University 1984 - 86

Lecturer University of Melbourne 1986 - 90

Senior Lecturer University of Melbourne 1991 - 2007



Personal Interests:

International politics

History and Philosophy of Science

Gardening

House renovating/carpentry

Classical guitar playing (former teacher)

Listening to live jazz

Collecting books

Cycling (former Victorian champion)

Swimming

Ocean yacht racing (Melbourne - Hobart, etc)

Drinking wine

Eating spicy Asian cuisine


Past Postgraduate Supervision:

James COFFEY "3-manifolds built from injective handlebodies"
Thomas HANDSCOMB "Characteristic classes of surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations"
John MASHFORD "Invariant measures and Mobius structures: a framework for field theory"
Armando RODADO "Weierstrass points and canonical cell decompositions of the moduli and teichmuller spaces of Riemann surfaces of genus two"
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