Professor Tom Ward

Tom Ward is Pro-Vice Chancellor of Education and Professor of Mathematics. He studied Mathematics at the University of Warwick.  He spent 1989-90 as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park before moving to the Ohio State University as a Research Instructor.  He returned to the UK in 1992, taking up a position as Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. At UEA he was Head of Department from 2002-7, and served on the University Planning and Resources Committee from 2005-8.  He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) in 2008, serving on the Executive Team, Senate and Council, and chairing the Learning and Teaching, Equality and Diversity and Student Experience Committees. He sits on the UUK-ICO working group on Freedom of Information for Higher Education and served on several 94 Group working groups.  He serves on the London Mathematical Society Publications Committee, was Executive Editor of the Bulletin of the LMS 2009-12, and is now a Managing Editor for the journal Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. His research area is Algebraic Dynamical Systems, with particular emphasis on interactions between Ergodic Theory, Homogeneous Dynamics, and Number Theory. He is the author of several monographs, including "Heights of polynomials and entropy in algebraic dynamics" with Graham Everest and "Ergodic theory with a view towards Number Theory" with Manfred Einsiedler.

He is in attendance at meetings of University Council and the Finance and General Purposes Committee.