Desmond Higham
| Desmond Higham | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 February 1964 Salford |
| Residence | UK |
| Citizenship | British |
| Fields | Numerical analysis |
| Institutions | University of Strathclyde |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Manchester (B.Sc. Ph.D. 1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Hall |
| Doctoral students | Xiaolin Xiao Somkid Intep Alan Taylor Graeme Chalmers Julie Morrison Alan Bryden Edward McDonald Richard Wain Abdul-Hadi Alim A. Khader Tasneem Sardar |
| Notable awards | SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize (2005) Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2006) |
Desmond John Higham (born Salford 17 February 1964)[1] is a numerical analyst and 1966 Chair of Numerical Analysis in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.[2]
He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BSc in 1985, MSc in and 1986 and PhD 1988. He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto before taking up a Lectureship at the University of Dundee in 1990 and moving to a Readership at the University of Strathclyde in 1996.
Higham's main area of research is stochastic computation, with applications in computational biology, technological/sociological/security networks and mathematical finance.
He holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012–2017)[3] and is a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He won the 2005 SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize (2005).[4]
Higham has authored four books:
- Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems (2010, with D. F. Griffiths),
- An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation (2004),
- MATLAB Guide (with his brother Nicholas Higham, 2nd edition, 2005),
- Learning LaTeX (1997, with D. F. Griffiths).
He also edited the book
- Network Science: Complexity in Nature and Technology (2010, with Ernesto Estrada, Maria Fox and Gian-Luca Oppo).
He is Section Editor of the Survey and Review section of SIAM Review and is a member of the editorial boards of several other journals.
References
- ↑ http://personal.strath.ac.uk/d.j.higham/webcv.html
- ↑ http://personal.strath.ac.uk/d.j.higham
- ↑ http://royalsociety.org/news/2012/wolfsons-round-2-2012
- ↑ http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/dahlquist.php
External links
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- 21st-century British mathematicians
- Numerical analysts
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- Complex systems scientists
- Academics of the University of Strathclyde
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- People from Salford, Greater Manchester
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
