Professor Niall MacKay
Publications Secretary
Professor of Mathematics, University of York
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PhD: University of Durham, 1992
Previous appointments: 1992-93: JSPS Fellow, RIMS, Kyoto University; 1993-95: PPARC Research Fellow and fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge; 1995-98: Stokes Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; 1998-99: Lecturer, University of Sheffield; 2000-date: University of York: Lecturer (2000), Senior Lecturer (2005) Reader (2009), Professor (2014); Head of Department 2015-2021.
Research interests: Integrable systems and quantum groups; operations research and history.
аĿª½±service: аĿª½±Education Committee 2004-09 and 2011-14; Editorial Adviser 2005-14; Council Member-at-Large from November 2020; Publications Committee and Personnel Committee from February 2021; аĿª½±Newsletter Editorial Board from April 2021
Additional Information: Member of QAA MSOR benchmark statement review group 2005-08, Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) 2011-14, MEI "Critical Mathematics" advisory group 2013-15, IoP Curriculum Committee 2013-15, and various other committees and working groups for the ILTHE, HEA, QCDA etc. Member of EPSRC Peer Review College 2003-10. External examiner, Mathematical Tripos, University of Cambridge 2014-17. Editorial Board member, Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 2014-2021
Currently Chair of Correspondents for the INI and ICMS (2019-date).
Personal Statement: I stepped down as Head of Department at York in 2021, and am now enjoying my renewed involvement with the LMS. Publications Secretary is a difficult job, both strategically and operationally, during an era of great change in academic publishing. As we navigate the transition to Open Access, I hope to preserve our income as far as possible, so that it can continue to be used to support the mathematics community, and to preserve and enhance the quality and standing of the аĿª½±journals within world mathematics and thereby their value to UK mathematicians, both as authors and as readers. These two goals are in an ever-shifting state of tension.