Biographical Information

William F. Langford (PhD Caltech, 1971) graduated from Queen's University, Canada in 1966 and obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Caltech in 1971. He was Assistant and Associate Professor at McGill University, Montreal, 1970-1982. In 1982 he joined the University of Guelph, where he served as Chair of Mathematics and Statistics 1990-1996 and was honoured as B.C. Matthews Alumni Research Fellow 1997, President's Distinguished Professor 2001, and University Professor Emeritus 2006. He has held adjunct and visiting appointments at the University of Waterloo, Université de Nice, France, University of Houston, USA, University of Warwick, UK, Tianjin University, China and the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, USA. He served as Deputy Director of the Fields Institute 1996-1999 and President of CAIMS 2005-2007. He is a lifetime Fellow of the Fields Institute and recipient of the CAIMS/SCMAI Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award 2009. Professor Langford's research interests have been concerned mainly with bifurcation theory and its applications, including mode interactions, strong resonances and symmetry breaking. Applications that he has studied include the Taylor-Couette problem, Cheyne-Stokes respiration in humans, vibrations of heat exchanger arrays and models of climate change.