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• BSc (Hon), Masters and PhD: University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa: MSc and PhD advisor: Doron Lubinsky, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States of America (USA).
• External PhD advisors : 1. Paul Nevai, Full Professor, Emeritus, Ohio State University, USA. 2. Eli Levine, Full Professor  the Open University of Israel, Israel.

 

• (2024-Present) Editor, zbMATH Open (Zentralblatt MATH), European Mathematical Society
  Department of Mathematics,  FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany. 
• (2019-Present) Mathematical Scientist and Educator, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
•  (2013-2020, 2021-2023) Sponsored Affiliate, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA.
• (2020-2021) Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA.
• (2013-2019) Associate Editor, Mathematical Reviews, American Mathematical Society, USA and Sponsored affiliate, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA.
• (2000-2012) Full, Associate and Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Southern University (GSU), USA.
• (2007-2013) Founder and Director of the Unit for Advances in Mathematics (IUAM), GSU (IUAM is an interdisciplinary university institute with home the College of Science and Mathematics).
• (2005-2006) New Directions Research Professor, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, USA [on leave].
• (2008-2011) Visiting Full Professor, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand. [Joint appointment with GSU].
• (Fall 2007) Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand. [On leave].
• (1999-2000) Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, USA [On leave].
• (1998-2000) Research Associate of the John Knopmacher Centre for Applicable Analysis and Number Theory and Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, the University of the Witwatersrand.
• (1996-1997) Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida, USA and Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.


• Some Wits/South African long term academic friends: Doron Lubinsky, Kathy Driver,  Anthony Bloch, Percy Deift.
• Some Georgia Southern long term friend pictures:Charles Champ, Jimmy Solomon, Richard Hathaway, Drew Sills.
• Some Mathematical Reviews long term friend pictures: Graeme Fairweather, Patrick Ion.
  
  
• My New Directions Professorship at the The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, The University of Minnesota.​.
• My Selected Large Grants.
• My Selected Honors .
• I have an Erdős Number of 3 through 11 people.
• My connections to Paul Erdős-Approximation theory-Orthogonal polynomials via the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  
  
• PhD students.
• Postdocs/PhD independent research collaborators.
• Masters students.
• My work with Research undergraduates at the University of Michigan.
• My work with Research undergraduates excluding the University of Michigan..
• PhD and Masters Committees.
• My Mathematics Geneology.
• See in general: Mathematics Education/Mathematics Outeach/Education Innovations.
  
  
• My Selected Interdisciplinary Institute-University talks (1996-2018).
  
  
• Special session with Keaton Hamm in the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, September 2022,"MDS22 Minisymposium on Optimal Transport, Manifold Learning and Dimensionality Reduction".
• My recent joint Princeton workshop: "Extensions-interpolation-shape matching in R^d, symmetry-invariance, algorithms and related topics", University of Michigan, October 20-21, 2018.
• My recent talks at Princeton. The Einstein School of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, Israel.
  
  
• In my spare time, I enjoy my family, my piano, my music, Star wars/Star trek/Walt Disney and reading popular books on mathematics/science and history.
  
  
• My work on the American Mathematical Society Mathematics Research Communities Advisory Board (2008-2009).
• My work on the American Mathematical Society Committee of Committees (2010-2011).
• Some Interdisciplinary Mathematical Institutes.
  
  
• My Selected Significant Georgia Southern Senate Approved Motions: Educational Leave and Library Growth (2000-2007).