Kathleen Ann Driver, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
BSc (Maths, Applied Maths) University of the Witwatersrand, 1966; BSc (Hons), Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, 1967; MS Mathematics, Stanford University, USA, 1971; PhD Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, 1991.
William Cullen Medal for the Most Distinguished Graduand in the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, 1966, and Winner of the South African Association of Women Graduates Award for the Best Female Graduand in all faculties, University of the Witwatersrand, 1966.
Professor and Head of Department (later, School) of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, 1999-2000 and 2001-2005. Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town, 2006-2010. Professor of Mathematics, University of Cape Town, 2011-2012; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Cape Town, 2013-
Supervision of Higher Degrees: K.H. Jordaan. PhD: S.J. Johnston. MSc: S.J. Johnston. PhD: B. Toko. MSc: N.C. Mbuyi PhD.
Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa 2007- ; Founder and Chair of National Science Deans Forum 2006; Member of Council, University of the Witwatersrand 2002-2005; Member of International Panel (set up by NRF) to review Mathematics research in South Africa 2008.
Volunteer Mathematics Teacher, St Martin's Church, 1985; Alexandra High School at Leeuwkop Prison, 1986, Read Matric Maths, 1986.
Research area: Orthogonal polynomials and Special functions
South African National Research Foundation Rating 1993 – 2023. Current “B3” Rating: 1/1/2018-31/12/2023.
Publications: 73 Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals, 6 Papers in Reviewed Conference Proceedings. Most recent Paper: J. Arvesu, K. Driver, L. Littlejohn. Zeros of Laguerre polynomials of equal and consecutive degree. To appear in Integral Transforms and Special Functions 2020.
Referee and Reviewer for International Journals. Associate Editor of Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. Over 100 Attendances at international conferences.
