Mr Len Colgan

Len Colgan is not only a senior adjunct staff member in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, but is also . a bromeliad collector . a fine red wine collector . a collector of 19th century Siam philately . a fanatical Crows supporter . a traveller to exotic locations . a cryptic crossword developer . a soft touch

Len Colgan's major administrative responsibility was being the Program Director of the Bachelor of Science (LBSC), which involves many separate schools, most campuses and three divisions of the university.

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• Innovative delivery of first-year Mathematics for Engineers
• Numerical Mathematics
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics

· Bachelor of Science; B.Sc. (1967) Adelaide · Master of Science; M.Sc. (1969) Flinders

• · Numerical mathematics, especially iterative methods for solving large sparse linear systems

Colgan, L.H., 1982, "Iterative Methods for Solving Large Sparse Linear Systems", Proc. 1981 Conference on Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, North-Holland Pub. Co.

Colgan, L.H., 1984, "Iterative Methods for Solving Large Sparse Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations", pages 623-679 of Computational Techniques for Differential Equations, J. Noye editor, North Holland Pub. Co.

Colgan, L.H., 1991, "Iterative Techniques for Large Sparse Linear Systems", School of Mathematics, University of South Australia, Technical Report Series No. 1991/1.

Colgan, L.H., 1997, "MATLAB in First Year Mathematics", Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics, Brisbane, 24-36 November, 1997

Colgan, L.H., 2000, "MATLAB in first-year engineering mathematics", Int.J.Math.Educ.Sci.Technol., 31, 15-25.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Mathematics

• Mathematics at SSABSA
• Secondary Mathematics
• Tertiary Mathematics
• cryptic crosswords