C. Rogers

Colin Rogers is an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, having previously served as the Head of its Department of Applied Mathematics. He has written over 250 research papers in international journals and is the co-author of two monographs on Bäcklund transformations and their applications in continuum mechanics and soliton theory. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford and his DSc from the University of Nottingham, UK, for his published research in applied mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and was awarded its Hannan Medal for his major contributions in the detection of hidden invariance and symmetry properties in nonlinear mathematical systems descriptive of complex physical processes. He is a recipient of the Centennial Medal by the Australian Government.