Dr Peter Collins

Emeritus Fellow

Dr Peter Collins is a mathematician whose research is in analytic topology and differential equations. He is Head of the Analytic Topology Research Group at Oxford’s Mathematical Institute, and formerly Chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Board and Vice-Chairman of the General Board of the Faculties in the University.

Peter was a Research Lecturer in Mathematics from 1966 to 1971 and Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall from 1968 to 1971. He was a Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics from 1971 until 2001, and then in 2002 became a Senior Research Fellow (until 2012). Peter has also served as Dean, Senior Tutor, and Investment and Senior Bursar of St Edmund Hall.

He has given invited lectures in more than 30 countries, including holding senior visiting positions in the United States, France and New Zealand.

Peter Collins has published books and articles in mathematical journals, including A general compactness theorem (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1970), referred to in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Criteria for metrisability(with A.W. Roscoe, Proceedings of the American Mathematics Society, 1984), On the topological structure of curves (in The Heritage of C.F.Gauss, World Scientific Publications,1991), On submaximal spaces (with A.V. Arhangel’skii, Topology and its Applications, 1995), Monotone Normality (Topology and its Applications, 1996) and Differential and Integral Equations (OUP, 2006).

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