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ALLAN MACLEOD

e-mail: allan.macleod AT uws.ac.uk (trying to reduce spam, but not working too well!)

(The alternating red and black colours are to reflect my lifelong devotion to Inverness Thistle FC, originally in the Highland League but now merged with Inverness Caledonian to form the team Inverness Caledonian Thistle - relegated to First Division for season 2009/2010, but promoted bask to premier League for this season!!!!!!)

Personal Details

The following shows my family at the wedding of my eldest son (third from left), which, sadly,
does not include our daughter-in-law Shona - cound not find a decent picture of the 6 of us and Shona.

Born - 20 November 1953, Inverness, Highland Region, Scotland

Married to Jennifer - a music teacher.

Four children :

(i) Alistair (30) - who works for Deloitte , currently on secondment for 2 years in Australia. Went to visit him in 2010 - Australia is wonderful.
(ii) Stuart (28) - who used to teach percussion in Edinburgh schools but gave up before losing his mind, still trying to be a rock star. Now working in computers.
(iii) Catriona (26) - doing a Ph.D. in French at Glasgow University
(iv) Duncan (23) - first-year of a Ph.D. in Gravitational Waves at Cardiff

Current position: Reader in Mathematics

Education:

1958-1965 Crown Primary School, Inverness
1965-1971 Inverness Royal Academy
1971-1975 University of Edinburgh, B.Sc. Hons (1st) in Mathematics
1975-1978 University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis

Employment:

1978-1979 Medical Computing and Statistics Unit, Edinburgh University
1979-1982 Napier College, Edinburgh (now Napier University)
1982-1986 Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels (now part of Heriot-Watt University )
1986-present Paisley College, became University of Paisley and is now part of The University of the West of Scotand

Academic Details

Responsibilities:

Teaching all or part of the following modules

Sequences and Patterns
Maths of Space and Change
Mathematics for Design
Dealing with Data
Multidimensional Mathematics
Differential Equations

Mathematics and Statistics Group Timetabler
School of Science Timetable Coordinator

Research Interests:

Special function software ( don't do much in this at the moment)
High-precision computation of mathematical constants
Computational number theory, especially elliptic curves as applied to problems in recreational number theory.

Publications:

Last revised: 19 August 2010