Senior Lecturer
and Head of Department

Telephone: +44 (0)118 378 8997
Fax: +44 (0)118 931 3423
email: D.S.G.Stirling@reading.ac.uk

Departmental Responsibilities

Head of Department
Chair, Mathematics Course Committee
Careers Liaison Officer
also member of Boards of Studies for Mathematics & Economics, Mathematics Psychology & Statistics, Mathematics & Statistics, Mathematics & Physics, Meteorology.

Other Responsibilities

Director of Teaching and Learning (Faculties of Science and of Life Sciences)
Chair, Joint Faculty Board for Teaching and Learning (Faculties of Science and of Life Sciences)
University Board for Teaching and Learning
  Chair, Sub-Committee on Examinations and Assessment
  Programme Management Sub-Committee
Life Sciences Faculty Board for Policy and Resource
Science Faculty Board for Policy and Resource
Senate
Senate Committee on Failures in Examinations
Careers Advisory Board
Board of Studies for Certificate in Further Professional Studies

Member, Committee of Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences in the UK
Member, Joint Mathematical Council of the UK

Books

David S. G. Stirling, Mathematical Analysis and Proof, Albion, 1997
David Porter and David S. G. Stirling, Integral Equations, Cambridge University Press, 1990
David S. G. Stirling, Mathematical Analysis: a fundamental and straightforward approach, Ellis Horwood, 1987

Main Research Interests

• Integral equations
• Approximation techniques for solutions of integral equations
• Operator theory (single operators in Banach space)
• Aspects of graph colouring.

Recent Papers

A. J. W. Hilton, T. Slivnik and D. S. G. Stirling, "Aspects of edge-list colourings", Discrete Math., 231 (2001), 253-264.

D. Porter and D. S. G. Stirling, "Integral Operators of Sturm-Liouville Type", Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 38 (2000), 51 - 65.

N. R. T. Biggs, D. Porter and D. S. G. Stirling, "Wave diffraction through a perforated breakwater", Q. J. Mech. Appl. Math., 53 (3), (2000), 375-391.

A. J. W. Hilton, D. S. G. Stirling and T. Slivnik, "A Vertex- splitting Lemma, de Werra's Theorem and Improper List Colourings", J. Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 72 (1998), 91-103.

A. J. W. Hilton and D. S. G. Stirling, "The dual of an identity of Ahlswede and Zhang", Congressus Numerantium, 103 (1998), 113 - 126.

D. J. Staziker, D. Porter and D. S. G. Stirling, "The Scattering of Surface Waves by Local Bed Elevations", Applied Ocean Research, 18 (1996), 283 - 291.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Books on other subjects

The History and Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Vol 2, The Telegraph and the Absolute Block, Single Line Operation , Friends of the National Railway Museum, 2002, 300pp, ISBN 1 872826 13 X

Link to other mathematics web sites

D.S.G.Stirling@reading.ac.uk 6/6/03.