Michael Eastwood

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Michael Eastwood
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Fields Differential Geometry
Doctoral advisor Robert C. Gunning
Doctoral students A. Rod Gover

Michael Eastwood FAA is a mathematician at the University of Adelaide, [1] known for his work in twistor theory, conformal differential geometry and invariant differential operators. In 1976 [2] he received a PhD at Princeton University in several complex variables under Robert C. Gunning. He was a member of the twistor research group of Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and he coauthored the monograph The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction with Representation Theory with Robert Baston. [3] After moving to South Australia in 1985 he was the 1992 recipient of the Australian Mathematical Society Medal [4] and made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2005. [5] In 2012 he was named to the inaugural (2013) class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society. [6]

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