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School of Mathematics and Statistics
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6

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Kenneth Stuart Williams

Born 20 August 1940 in Croydon, Surrey, England
Canadian citizen since 1971

EDUCATION :

B.Sc. (First Class Honours in Mathematics) 1962
University of Birmingham

M.A. (Mathematics) 1963
University of Toronto

Ph.D. (Mathematics) 1965
University of Toronto

D.Sc. (Pure Mathematics) 1979
University of Birmingham

ACADEMIC POSITIONS :

1962-65 Teaching Fellow, University of Toronto
1965-66 Lecturer, University of Manchester
1966-68 Assistant Professor, Carleton University
1968-75 Associate Professor, Carleton University
1975-02 Professor, Carleton University
2002-     Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor, Carleton University

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS :

1971-1975 Assistant Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Carleton University
1980-1984 Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
1997-1998 Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
1998-2000 Director, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University

RESEARCH POSITIONS :

At various times at Queen's University, University of British Columbia, Université de Nancy, Arizona State University, University of South Carolina, Macquarie University.

GRADUATE SUPERVISION :

1966 K. McCann, University of Manchester, M.Sc. Thesis "On the distribution of the residues of a cubic polynomial modulo a prime p"
1976 B.K. Spearman, Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "Some elementary proofs of certain reciprocity laws"
1988 I.G. deMille, Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "The continued fraction for certain (1+sqrt(D))/2 with applications to units and class numbers"
1992 D. Liu, Carleton University, Ph.D. Thesis "Dihedral congruences and binary quadratic forms: a class field theory approach"
1994 S. Alaca, Carleton University, Ph.D. Thesis " p -integral bases of algebraic number fields"
2001 H. Muzaffar, Carleton University, Ph.D. Thesis "Extensions and analogues of the Chowla-Selberg formula"
2002 S. Godin, Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "Two term class number formulae of Dirichlet type"
2003 M. Lemire, Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "Number of classes of solutions of the equation x 2 - Dy 2 = 4E"
2003 N. Cheng, Carleton University, M.Sc. Thesis "Convolution sums involving divisor functions"
2004 E. McAfee, Carleton University, M.Sc.. Thesis "A three term arithmetic formula of Liouville type with application to sums of six squares"
2005 C. S. Haley, Carleton University, M.Sc.. Thesis "Evaluation of certain infinite series using theorems of John, Rademacher and Kronecker"