John M. Ball

John M. Ball

Sir John Macleod Ball, FRS (born 1948) is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003-06 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

John Ball's research interests include elasticity, the calculus of variations, and infinite-dimensional dynamical systems. He was knighted in the New Year Honours list for 2006 "for services to Science" [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/30_12_05_hons.pdf CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD] ] .

He is married to Sedhar Chozam (Lady Sedhar Ball), a Tibetan-born actress.

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External links

* [http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~ball/ Ball's home page]
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