Nicholas Higham#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 4191 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Nicholas Higham passed away January 20, 2024.
Positions Held
- 1998 Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Manchester
- 1996 - 1998 Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Manchester
- 1992 - 2006 Reader, University of Manchester
- 1992 (winter quarter) Senior visitor at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
- 1989 - 2002 Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
- 1988 - 1989 Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
- 1985 - 1996 Lecturer, University of Manchester
Fields of Scholarship
- Numerical linear algebra
- Numerical analysis
- Mathematical software
- Numerical algorithms
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - 2016 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2009 Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2008 Fröhlich Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 2007 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2003 - 2008 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 1999 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
- 1999 Junior Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 1991 Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship
- 1988 Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (International prize for numerical analysts under 31)
- 1987 Alston S. Householder Award VI (International prize for best Ph.D. thesis in numerical algebra 1984 - 1987)
