There were 25 entries for the 2005 Leslie Fox Prize, and 7 finalists
were chosen. The prize is open to numerical analysts under the
age of 31 and is awarded on the basis of both a submitted
paper and a talk. This year the submitted papers were of a very high
standard and on the day of the final the talks were excellent. The
adjudicators had a very difficult task to separate the
finalists, but in the end decided to award two first prizes and
five second prizes as follows.
First Prizes: Roland Opfer (Goettingen)
Paul Tupper (McGill)
Second Prizes: Lehel Banjai (MPI, Leipzig)
Coralia Cartis (Oxford)
Johan Hoffman (KTH, Stockholm)
Fabio Nobile (Politecnico, Milan)
Adam Oberman (Simon Fraser)
The adjudicators were: Professor Alastair Spence (University of Bath)
Professor Endre Suli (University of Oxford)
Professor Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick)
The Leslie Fox Prize is administered by the Institute of Mathematics
and its Applications (http://www.ima.org.uk/) and the adjudicators are
selected by the Editorial Board of the IMAJNA. The next Fox Prize
meeting is expected to take place in 2007.
Alastair Spence
Chairman,
9th September 2005
