Michael G. Eastwood is a mathematician at the
University of Adelaide, known for his work in
twistor theory
In theoretical physics, twistor theory was proposed by Roger Penrose in 1967 as a possible path to quantum gravity and has evolved into a branch of theoretical and mathematical physics. Penrose proposed that twistor space should be the basic arena ...
, conformal differential geometry and invariant differential operators. In 1976 he received a PhD at
Princeton University in
several complex variables
The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with complex-valued functions. The name of the field dealing with the properties of function of several complex variables is called several complex variable ...
under
Robert C. Gunning. He was a member of the twistor research group of
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fello ...
at the
University of Oxford and he coauthored the monograph ''The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction with Representation Theory'' with Robert Baston. After moving to South Australia in 1985 he was the 1992 recipient of the
Australian Mathematical Society Medal and made a
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2005. In 2012 he was named to the inaugural (2013) class of fellows of the
American Mathematical Society.
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Academic staff of the University of Adelaide
Australian mathematicians
Princeton University alumni
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
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Living people
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