Dwight Albert Duffus is a Canadian-American mathematician

Mathematician

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, the Goodrich C. White Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Emory University

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

 and editor-in-chief of the journal Order

Order (journal)

Order is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on order theory and its applications, published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was founded in 1984 by University of Calgary mathematics professor Ivan Rival; as of 2010, its editor in chief is Dwight Duffus, the Goodrich C...

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Duffus did his undergraduate studies at the University of Regina

University of Regina

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, graduating in 1974; he received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Calgary

University of Calgary

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 under the supervision of Ivan Rival

Ivan Rival

Ivan Rival was a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of mathematics at the University of Calgary and of computer science at the University of Ottawa....

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In 1986 Duffus received Emory University's Emory Williams Teaching Award, its highest award for teaching excellence. He served as chair of the Mathematics & Computer Science Department at Emory for many years, beginning in 1991.