MIMS news archive

Professor Françoise Tisseur has been elected Vice President 2013-2015 of the SIAM UK and Republic of Ireland Section.
Professor Oliver Jensen is the first holder of the new Sir Horace Lamb Chair.
Professor Françoise Tisseur has been elected Program Director 2013-2015 of the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.
Over 81,000 downloads from MIMS EPrints in 2012. Follow @MIMS_EPrints on Twitter.
Professors Toby Stafford and Alex Wilkie have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for 2013
Several Manchester mathematicians can be found on Google Scholar Citations.
Professor Sven Hammarling has been named a 2012 SIAM Fellow "for his contributions to numerical linear algebra, including the LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage) project".
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Professor Toby Stafford has been awarded a Clay Mathematics Institute Senior Scholarship, 2012-2013.
Dr Françoise Tisseur has won the 2011/12 Adams Prize.
Professor Nick Higham has been re-elected as Vice President at Large of SIAM, 2012-2013.
Over 100 new MIMS EPrints published in 2011. Follow MIMS EPrints on Twitter.
Professor Jack Dongarra has been awarded the 2011 IEEE Charles Babbage Award in recognition of his pioneering work in numerical algorithms and linear algebra libraries for parallel computing.
Professor Paul Glendinning is Vice President (Learned Society) of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2011-2012.
Professor Bill Lionheart is to receive The University of Manchester's Researcher of the Year 2011 award.
Professor Alex Wilkie has taken over as Director of MIMS from February 2011.
Professor Nick Higham has been awarded a 2M euro ERC Advanced Grant to support his research on matrix functions.
Professor Bill Lionheart has won the Defence and Security prize at The Engineer's Technology & Innovation Awards 2010.
The School of Mathematics has been awarded a £0.5M Platform Grant (2011-2015) by EPSRC to support research across the School.
Professor Jack Dongarra is featured in a Microsoft Technical Computing video.
NVIDIA have donated two Tesla C2050 GPU (Fermi) Computing Processors to Professor Jack Dongarra to support research in GPU computing in the School of Mathematics.
MIMS EPrints has recently passed 1000 entries. You can now follow MIMS EPrints on Twitter. See this news item for more details.
Dr Françoise Tisseur has been awarded a 5-year EPSRC Leadership Fellowship to carry out research on nonlinear eigenvalue problems.
Professor Bill Lionheart is a co-winner of the 2010 Martin Black Prize from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine for the best paper published in Physiological Measurement.
Dr Françoise Tisseur has been awarded a 2010 Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society.
Professor Jack Dongarra has been awarded the 2010 Career Prize of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing.
Professor Jack Dongarra is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the newly launched Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier).
Professor Paul Glendinning has been awarded the Catherine Richards Prize by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications for the best article published in Mathematics Today in 2009.
Andrew Gordon, second year PhD student in Numerical Analysis, has been selected as one of the four winners of the 2010 Copper Mountain Student Paper Prize.
The new Manchester SIAM Student Chapter is is open to join.
Most viewed MIMS EPrints of 2009.
Professor Nick Higham has been elected Vice President at Large of SIAM for a two year period beginning January 2010.
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Professor Alex Wilkie takes up the elected position of President of The Association for Symbolic Logic in January 2010.
Professor Nick Higham's paper "The Scaling and Squaring Method for the Matrix Exponential Revisited" appears in the SIGEST section of SIAM Review, Dec. 2009. SIGEST "highlights an exceptional paper, chosen for its readability and wide appeal to the SIAM community".
Saralees Nadarajah has been awarded the 2007 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize by the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences for his paper "Exact Distribution of XY for the Elliptically Symmetric Pearson Type II Distribution".
Professor Paul Glendinning has been awarded the Catherine Richards Prize by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications for the best article published in Mathematics Today in 2008.
Awad Al-Mohy, third year PhD student in Numerical Analysis, has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2009 SIAM Student Paper Prize.
Professors Jack Dongarra and Nick Higham, FRS, have been named 2009 SIAM Fellows: "For contributions to numerical linear algebra, including EISPACK, LINPACK, and LAPACK, and high-performance computing" (Dongarra) and "For contributions to numerical linear algebra and rounding error analysis" (Higham).
Professor David Silvester has been elected President of the UK and Republic of Ireland SIAM Section for a two year period beginning April 2009.
Members of the School of Mathematics have recently been elected to the Council of the London Mathematical Society (Borovik, Wilkie) and the Board of Trustees of SIAM (Higham), and have joined the editorial boards of Inverse Problems (Dorn), Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis (Zhang), and the Armenian Journal Of Mathematics (Khudaverdian).
Professor Martin Taylor, FRS, has received a knighthood in the New Years Honours list for his services to science. See BBC News and the Manchester Evening News.
Professor Jack Dongarra's invited presentation "An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future" at the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting is available as slides with synchronized audio.
Professor Nick Higham, FRS, has won the London Mathematical Society's 2008 Fröhlich Prize in recognition of his leading contributions to numerical linear algebra and numerical stability analysis.
The PhD thesis of Steve Mackey Structured Linearizations for Matrix Polynomials (2006) has won an honorable mention in the Householder Award XIII (2008).
Professor Jack Dongarra has won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing. The medal was established in 2008 to recognize significant contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical committee on Scalable Computing and/or its activities, coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research.
MIMS is marking its first year in the new Alan Turing Building by holding a series of ten New Directions Workshops, organized by members of the School of Mathematics. These workshops showcase the broad spectrum of research in the School and some of our current interdisciplinary collaborations.
The School of Mathematics is represented on the editorial boards of many journals and book series. Recent additions are to Biometrics (Pan), International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (Dongarra), Journal of Distribution Theory (Nadarajah), Mechanics Research Communications (Gray), Proceedings of the Moscow Mathematical Society (Buchstaber), Scholarly Research Exchange (Dongarra), SANKHYA, the Indian journal of Statistics (Subba Rao), SIAM Journal On Matrix Analysis and Applications (Tisseur), Tbilisi Math Journal (Plymen), and Transformation Groups (Premet).
The elite group of papers by members of the School of Mathematics having over 100 citations on the ISI Web of Science was joined recently by Dr Françoise Tisseur's paper The Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem (with K. Meerbergen, SIAM Review, 2001).
Congratulations to Professor Toby Stafford on the award of a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. Professor Stafford, who recently joined the School from the University of Michigan, received the award to help him further his research on noncommutative algebraic geometry and its applications over the next five years.
Professors Peter Duck and Nick Higham recently gave presentations on their research in mathematical finance at a NAG and Wilmott Finance Seminar in London. Videos of the talk are available online from the Wilmott site (registration required). These talks illustrate some of the mathematical finance-related work going on in Manchester and will be of particular interest to those considering graduate work (MSc, MPhil, PhD) in this area.
Congratulations to Professor Nick Higham, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Society cites his fundamental work on numerical linear algebra and its influence on the development of computer software.
Professor Paul Glendinning's paper How chaotic are strange non-chaotic attractors? has been selected as one of the "High-Profile Articles" of 2006 for the journal Nonlinearity.
Professor Nick Higham has been added to Thomson Scientific's ISIHighlyCited.com, a free, publicly available website intended to highlight the world's most cited and influential researchers from the last three decades. Currently, there are 10 other academics at The University listed on the site and in mathematics only 21 in the UK and just over 300 worldwide.
Professor Bill Lionheart and Rapiscan Systems join forces for a new £750,000 research project on 3D x-ray scanning. (October 2006)
MIMS forum focus on an area of mathematics used by a wide variety of different research groups within the university and our industrial partners. Meetings are roughly every month and include several short presentations, often on results that are puzzling or problems only partially solved. The first two MIMS Forums are on Ray Transform Reconstruction and Non-linear Inverse Problems. (September 2006)
Professor Barry Greenberg visits MIMS from March 07 to September 07
Professor Albert Shiryaev visits MIMS from June 07 to July 07
Professor Peter Lancaster visits MIMS from January 07 to March 07
Professor Leonid Chekhov visits MIMS from February 07 to March 07
Professor Vladimir Sokolov visits MIMS from December 06 to February 07
Professor Grigory Milstein visits MIMS from October 06 to November 06
Professor Ross Maller visits MIMS from September 06 to October 06
Professor Ron Doney has been honoured by the community by being made a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics at the IMS Annual Meeting in Rio de Janeiro. (August 2006)
Professor Paul Glendinning's paper How chaotic are strange non-chaotic attractors? has been selected for IoP Select, a special collection of journal articles from the Institute of Physics chosen for their significant breakthroughs, future impact or novelty. (August 2006)
The MIMS EPrints electronic repository for mathematical research, released in November 2005, now has over 350 entries covering the period 1986--2006. You can browse by year, subject, or MIMS EPrints number (August 2006)
Professor Leonid Chekhov visits MIMS (May 2006)
Professor Dmitri I. Panyushev visits MIMS (May-June 2006)
Dr. Stef Graillat visits MIMS from January 2006 - March 2006
Pictures of Prof. Devaney's lecture are now available (February 2006)
Professor David Makinson visits MIMS from February 2006 to March 2006
Professor Albert Shiryaev visits MIMS from January 2006 to February 2006
Professor Nalini Joshi visits MIMS from December 2005 to January 2006
The School of Mathematics hosts the 2005 LMS Popular Lectures in Mathematics (September 2005)
Professor Chun-Hua Guo visits MIMS from July 2005 to December 2005
Preliminary Report from workshop Where will the next generation of mathematicians come from?, supported by MIMS, attracts media coverage. (July 2005)
An Interview with Peter Lancaster, by Nicholas Higham, now available. (June 2005)