David Rees Fellowship

The David Rees Distinguished Visiting Fellowship scheme enables mathematicians of international renown to spend a few days at the University of Exeter to enable them to contribute to the University’s academic and intellectual activities.

David Rees (1918-2013) was a Professor of Mathematics and former Head of Department at the University of Exeter. He had a long and distinguished research career in semigroup theory and commutative algebra. During the Second World War was actively undertaking Enigma research at Bletchley Park; after this he reached the highest international levels of mathematical research, being appointed Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and of the Institute of Mathematics and Applications (FIMA). He was awarded the Pólya Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1993.

Key responsibilities of David Rees Fellows

During their period visiting the Department, Fellows will:

• present a colloquium/public lecture
• present a specialist research seminar on a topic aligned to their research interests
• be engaged in research with members of the staff from the mathematics discipline

Current and Previous Rees Fellows

• 2023: Prof Seonhee Lim, Seoul National University, Korea
• 2022: Prof Jon Keating, University of Oxford, UK
• 2019: Prof James V. Zidek, University of British Columbia, Canada
• 2019: Prof Michael Benedicks, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2018: Professor Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• 2017: Professor Zeev Rudnick, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
• 2016: Professor Arek Goetz, San Francisco State, United States of America
• 2016: Professor Thomas Zink, Bielefeld University, Germany