David E. Evans Explained

David E. Evans FLSW was born in 1950 at Glanamman, Dyfed, Wales.^[1] He is a professor of mathematics at Cardiff University, specialising in knot theory. He has published a number of books, many in collaboration with Yasuyuki Kawahigashi.

He studied at New College, Oxford, and Jesus College, Oxford.

From 1975 to 1976 Evans worked as a scholar and research assistant in the department of theoretical physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Over the next few years he travelled around the world working as a research fellow at UCLA (1977); Australian National University, Canberra (1982, 1989); Kyoto University (1982-83, 1985); and the University of Ottawa (1983). Between 1987 and 1998 he worked as a professor at Swansea, Wales. Since 1998, he has worked as a professor at Cardiff University.

Awards and honours

• Junior Mathematical Prize, 1972
• Senior Mathematical Prize, 1975
• Johnson Prizes, 1975
• Whitehead Prize – London Mathematical Society, 1989.^{[2] [3]}
• Elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, 2011.^[4]

Notable published works

• Quantum Symmetries on Operator Algebras (David E. Evans and Yasuyuki Kawahigashi, published 21 May 1998) One of the first books to examine post-1981 combinatorial-algebraic developments with respect to operator algebras. Intended for an audience of graduate students and researchers of the field.^[5]
• Integrable lattice models for conjugate A^(1)_n (David E. Evans and R. E. Behrend, published 2004 in J. Phys. A) Evans's most recently published paper.^[6]

References

1. Web site: Evans, D.E. . DIAS.
2. http://www.cf.ac.uk/maths/subsites/evansde/CV.html David E. Evans CV
3. Web site: LMS Prizes . Lms.ac.uk . 2012-08-05.
4. Web site: Wales . The Learned Society of . David Evans . 2023-08-30 . The Learned Society of Wales . en-US.
5. Web site: UK General Catalogue . OUP . 1998-05-21 . 2010-09-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929120817/http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198511755 . 2007-09-29 .
6. https://archive.today/20070620234301/http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/maths/evansde/papers01.html David E. Evans: Publications

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