!!Nicholas Higham - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education:__
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Ph.D. (Numerical Analysis), 1985, University of Manchester. M.Sc. (Numerical Analysis and Computing), 1983, University of Manchester. B.Sc. Hons. I (Mathematics), 1982, University of Manchester.\\
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__Selected Recent Invited Plenary Conference Talks:__
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*March 2016: 40th South African Symposium of Numerical and Applied Mathematics, Stellenbosch.\\
*August 2015: New Directions in Numerical Computation, Oxford, August 2015.\\
*Jun 2014: Householder Symposium XIX, Spa, Belgium, June 2014.\\
*Jul 2013: One-week course "Functions of matrices and exponential integrators" at Gene Golub SIAM Summer School 2013 on Matrix Functions and Matrix Equations, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.\\
*Jul 2012: 6th European Congress of Mathematics, Krakow, Poland (semi-plenary lecture).\\
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__Professional Service (highlights)__
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*President-Elect of SIAM, (Philadelphia), 2016; President 2017-2018\\
*Elected Vice President at Large of SIAM, 2010-2011. Re-elected for second term, 2012-2013\\
*Member of the CERFACS Scientific Council (Toulouse), 2015-\\
*Member of Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Subpanel 10: Mathematical Sciences\\
*Elected Member of Board of Trustees of SIAM, 2006-2008, 2009-2010\\
*Member of Visiting Committee to Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France, providing external advice to the university on strategy, September 2010, March 2013\\
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__Editorial Work: Member of editorial boards of the journals:__
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*Acta Numerica, since 2012\\
*Forum of Mathematics, since 2012\\
*Foundations of Computational Mathematics, since 1999\\
*IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, since 1994\\
*Linear Algebra and its Applications, since 1997; Senior Editor from 2009\\
*Numerical Algorithms, since 2003\\
*PeerJ Computer Science, since 2015\\
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__Book activities:__
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*(Founding) Editor-in-Chief of SIAM, Fundamentals of Algorithms Book Series, since 2003.\\
*Chair of SIAM Book Committee, 2014-2016.\\
*Editorial Board, SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics Book Series, since 2005.