Phil Howlett

Phil G. Howlett is Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of South Australia. He is a member and former Leader of the Scheduling and Control Group (SCG) in the Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CIAM) and a member of the Barbara Hardy Institute. He was Director of CIAM, 1998–2004; Director of the Australian Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group, 2000–2003; and Chair of ANZIAM (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2008–2009. He has worked on the development of optimal driving strategies for trains and solar-powered racing cars and on railway operations efficiency as well as other areas of applied mathematics, including recent work on management of water supply systems, rainfall modelling, and singular perturbations of linear operators.