Alan McIntosh

Alan Gaius Ramsay McIntosh (* 1942 in Sydney, † August 8, 2016 ) was an Australian mathematician who dealt with analysis (harmonic analysis, partial differential equations). He was a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. McIntosh studied at the University of New England with a bachelor's degree in 1962 (as a student he also received the University Medal ) and PhD in 1966 with Frantisek Wolf at the University of California, Berkeley, ( Representation of Accretive Bilinear Forms in Hilbert Space by Maximal Accretive Operator ). In Berkeley, he was also a student of Tosio Kato. As a post-doctoral student, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1967 he taught at Macquarie University and from 1999 at the Australian National University. In 2014 he became emeritus. McIntosh was involved in solving the Calderon conjecture in the theory of singular integral operators. In 2002, he solved with Pascal Auscher, Michael T. Lacey, Philipp Tchamitchian and Steve Hofmann the open Kato root problem for elliptic differential operators.