15th Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis

摘要

The 15th Leslie Fox Prize Meeting was held in the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Manchester on Monday June 27, 2011.This biennial prize was established in 1985 to honour Professor Leslie Fox, who founded the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in 1957 and was the Professor of Numerical Analysis at Oxford from 1963 to 1983. It is open to numerical analysts worldwide who are under 31 years of age on 31 January of the prize year. An entry comprises a paper describing some of the candidate's research. The call for papers states that 'Particular attention will be given to the originality and quality of each paper, and to the suitability of the material for a 40 minute talk to a general audience of numerical analysts. This year's prize received a record 30 entries (of whom four were women) from 10 countries: · Austria: 1 (University of Vienna) · Belgium: 1 (Universite Catholique de Louvain) ·Canada: 1 (Simon Fraser University) · Czech Republic: 1 (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) · Germany: 7 (German Aerospace Center, Heidelberg University (two submissions), Humboldt University, Karlsruhe Institute for Technologie, Technische Universitat Dresden, University of Magdeburg) · Italy: 1 (University of Pisa) · Japan: 1 (Nagoya University) ·Switzerland: 2 (ETH Zurich (two submissions)) · UK: 8 (Heriot-Watt University, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Oxford (four submissions),STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) · USA: 7 (Princeton University, UCLA, University of California Davis, University of California San Diego, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Maryland, University of Texas at Austin).