Lausch
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Hans Lausch receiving his BH Neumann Award from Professor Neumann at a function at Monash University on 5 August 1998.
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Hans Lausch with his wife Elizabeth (second from left), son Peter and daughter Monika after the Award was made.
Citation
Hans took over as Chairman of the AMOC Senior Problems Committee in 1987 and has consistently overseen the requirements of
- setting the AMO paper
- setting the AMOC Senior Contest paper
- submitting questions from Australia to APMO
- submitting questions from Australia to IMO
He is Australia's pre-eminent authority in this area and has a wide knowledge of problems as set internationally. In the case of APMO and IMO he has had a number of questions accepted. In 1994 (Hong Kong) two of his questions made the final IMO paper out of 6 altogether.
Hans has also been Australia's representative on APMO since its inception in 1989 and coordinated Australia's entry. He has been a member of the Committee for the Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians since its inception in 1991. He has also been Chairman of Selectors for the Australian IMO team (the exact number of years I cannot trace). In addition he has freely given much of his time to live-in with training schools, giving lectures and marking exams.
In his university career, Hans has a strong research background in algebra and the history of mathematics, particularly the post-war mathematicians who came to Australia from central and eastern Europe, some as refugees. He has been at Monash University for 26 years, 25 of which were as Reader or Associate Professor.
Peter Taylor
05 August 1998