Background
Dempster, Michael Alan Howarth was born on April 10, 1938 in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. Son of Cedric William and Honor Fitz Simmons (Gowan) Dempster.
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Michael Alan Howarth Dempster
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Michael Alan Howarth Dempster, British Mathematics educator, researcher. Avocations: reading, gardening, tennis, sailing, skiing.
M C. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,1974-1975, senior research scholar International Institute for Applied Sys. Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1979-1981, professorship Italian National Research Council, 1988-1989.
Education
Bachelor in Mathematics, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1961; Master of Science in Mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon U., 1963; Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon U., 1965; Master of Arts, U. Oxford, England, 1967.
Career
International Business Machines Corporation postdoctoral research fellow, Mathematics Institute, Oxford, 1965-1966;
junior research fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1966;
fellow, tutor, university lecturer mathematics, Balliol College, Oxford, 1967-1981;
lecturer mathematics, Balliol College, Oxford, 1982-1987;
professor mathematics, statistics-computing science, Resident Advisor Jodrey research professor, Dalhousie U. School Business Administration, Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, 1981-1993;
professor mathematics, U. Essex, England, 1990-1995;
professor management, Judge Institute, Cambridge (England) University, since 1996. Consultant to numerous companies and goverments, since 1965. Member research advisory board Canada Institute for Advanced Research, since 1986.
Dir.Inst. for Studies in Finance, U. Essex, 1993. Visiting professor U. Toronto, 1970, Manchester Business School, 1970-1971, University of California, Berkeley, 1977, U. Buckingham, 1977-1978, U. Rome La Sapienza, 1988-1989, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1995, Cambridge U., United Kingdom, 1995.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications. Member London Mathematics Society, Operational Research Society, Oxford Political Economy Club, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Ann Laura Lazier, June 14, 1963 (divorced 1980). 1 child, Trinity Catherine Laura FitzSimmons. Married Elena Anatolievna Medova, July 24, 1981.
1 child, Anna Medova.
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British
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Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,1974-1975, senior research scholar International Institute for Applied Sys. Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1979-1981, professorship Italian National Research Council, 1988-1989.Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,1974-1975, senior research scholar International Institute for Applied Sys. Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1979-1981, professorship Italian National Research Council, 1988-1989.