Kathryn Jennifer Horadam (born 1951) is an Australian mathematician known for her work on
Hadamard matrices and related topics in mathematics and
information security. She is an Emeritus Professor at the
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
Life
Horadam is one of the three children of mathematicians Alwyn Horadam and
Eleanor Mollie Horadam, and was born in 1951 in
Armidale, New South Wales. She studied mathematics at
Australian National University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1972 and completing her PhD in 1977. Her dissertation, ''The Homology of Groupnets'', was supervised by Neville Smythe.
She worked for over 30 years at RMIT, becoming a professor of mathematics there in 1995. Additionally, she worked for three years in the
Defence Science and Technology Group
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.
Book
Horadam is the author of the book ''Hadamard Matrices and Their Applications'' (Princeton University Press, 2007).
Recognition
Horadam became a fellow of the
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications in 1991 and of the
Australian Mathematical Society
The Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) was founded in 1956 and is the national society of the mathematics profession in Australia. One of the Society's listed purposes is to promote the cause of mathematics in the community by representing t ...
in 2001. An international workshop on Hadamard matrices was held at RMIT in 2011 in honour of her 60th birthday, and papers from the workshop were published in 2013 as a special issue of the ''
Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
The ''Australasian Journal of Combinatorics'' is a triannual peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering combinatorics. It was established in 1990 and is published by the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing (University of Queens ...
''.
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1951 births
Living people
Australian mathematicians
Australian women mathematicians
Combinatorialists
Australian National University alumni
Academic staff of RMIT University