Job Title: Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

Telephone: +44 (0)1603 592735

Location: VCO 1.29

Email: t.ward@uea.ac.uk

Biography: 

Professor Tom Ward is Pro-Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for Academic Policy and Resources, Learning and Teaching Strategy, the Student Experience, Admissions, and Human Resources.

Tom Ward is a mathematician, specializing in ergodic theory and its connections to number theory. In addition to research publications, he is the author of “Heights of Polynomials and Entropy in Algebraic Dynamics” and “An Introduction to Number Theory” with Everest, a research monograph “Recurrence Sequences” with Everest, van der Poorten and Shparlinski, and he edited the proceedings “Algebraic and Topological Dynamics” with Kolyada and Manin.

After childhood in Ghana and Zambia, he attended Waterford Kamhlaba School in Swaziland, and then studied mathematics at the University of Warwick. He worked at the University of Maryland College Park and the Ohio State University before taking up a lectureship at UEA in 1992. He was Head of the School of Mathematics from 2002 to 2007, and has served on the University Planning and Resources Committee since 2005.


Created 1 September 2009