Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis

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The Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a biennial prize established in 1985 by the IMA in honour of mathematician Leslie Fox (1918-1992). The prize honours "young numerical analysts worldwide" (any person who is less than 31 years old), and applicants submit papers for review. A committee reviews the papers, invites shortlisted candidates to give lectures at the Leslie Fox Prize meeting, and then awards First Prize and Second Prizes based on "mathematical and algorithmic brilliance in tandem with presentational skills."

First Prize Winners list

Source: Institute of Mathematics

1985 - Lloyd N. Trefethen (inaugural prize winner)

1986 - J. W. Demmel and N. I. M. Gould

1988 - Nicholas J. Higham

1989 - 3 first prizes: Martin Buhmann ("Multivariable cardinal interpolation with radial basis functions"), Bart De Moor ("The restrictricted singular value decomposition: properties and applications"), Andrew M. Stuart ("Linear instability implies spurious periodic solutions")

1991 - Christopher Budd and J. F. B. M. Kraaijevanger

1993 - Yuying Li

1995 - Adrian Hill

1997 - Wim Sweldens, "The Lifting Scheme: A Construction of Second Generation Wavelets" (1997)

1999 - Niles Pierce and Reha Tütüncü

2001 - Anna-Karin Tornberg

2003 - Jared Tanner

2005 - Roland Opfer and Paul Tupper

2007 - Yoichiro Mori and Ioana Dumitriu

2009 - Brian Sutton

2011 - Yuji Nakatsukasa

2013 - Michael Neilan

2015 - Iain Smears and Alex Townsend

References

Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis Wikipedia

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