David Hill received BE and BSc degrees from The University of Queensland in Brisbane in 1972 and 1974, respectively, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle in 1976. He is currently a Professor and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at The Australian National University. He has held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Sydney and Hong Kong (City University). His research interests are in network systems science, stability analysis, nonlinear control and applications. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in the USA. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Network science: The importance of getting connected
by Professor David Hill

Complex network structures are used to describe the connections in society, natural systems and engineered systems. These connections play a major role in the way that the systems behave and can be controlled. For this reason, social scientists, physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers are interested in this topic with a general aim to achieve understanding and safer and more effective management of the complexity in such systems. This talk will introduce network science and the particular problems David is investigating.

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