Bob O’Malley, ANZIAM and ICIAM – a personal reflection
Ian H Sloan, UNSW Sydney
I remember Bob O’Malley as a larger-then-life character, who had a little-known but profound effect on the development of ANZIAM (which stands for Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics), and on its involvement with ICIAM – a subsequent involvement large enough to include a Congress (the Sydney Congress in 2003) and an Australian President.
Bob came to Australia (perhaps more than once) in the late 1980s, as part of a review committee for some part of Australian mathematics. I remember him...