Resumé of Robert W. Carroll

Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sketch of Personal and Professional History

Born, Chicago, May 10, 1930

BS degree (applied mathematics), University of Wisconsin (Madison), June, 1952

Aeronautical Research Scientist (GS 9), NACA (now NASA), Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, 1952-1954

U.S. Army Security Agency, Linguist (Russian, Polish, German, French), 1954-1957; Army Language School, 1954-1955; stationed in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1955-1957

PhD degree (mathematics), University of Maryland (College Park), June, 1959

Research assistant, Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland, 1957-1959

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Nancy, France, 1959-1960

Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, 1960-1963

Associate Professor, Rutgers, 1963-1964

Associate Professor, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1964-1967

Professor, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1967-1997

Associate editor, Applicable Analysis, 1970-present

Visiting professor, University of Maryland (College Park), 1972-1973

Visiting professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South- Africa, May-July, 1984

Visiting professor, Academia Sinica, Taipei, August-September, 1988

Visiting professor Hiroshima University, October, 1988

Visiting professor, IMA, University of Minnesota, November-December, 1988

Lecture tour in Europe, April-May, 1981 (England, Holland, and France)

Lecture tour in Italy, July, 1985

Lecture tour in Japan, September-October, 1988

Considerable experience in languages and varying degrees of skill in Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish

Married 1957, two children, David, born 1963 and Malcolm, born 1971, separated 1973, divorced 1974, remarried 1974, divorced 1977, remarried 1979, widowed 2001, remarried 2003.

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, May 21, 1997