Jennifer Scott (mathematician)
Jennifer Ann Scott FIMA (née Dixon)[1] is a British mathematician specialising in numerical analysis, sparse matrix computations, and parallel computing. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Reading, where she directs the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth,[2] and a Group Leader and Individual Merit Research Fellow for the Science and Technology Facilities Council at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.[3]
Scott earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1984; her dissertation was A unified analysis of discretisation methods and was supervised by J. Sean McKee.[3][1][4] She worked as a junior research fellow in St. John's College, Oxford, and then at the National Radiological Protection Board,[3] becoming a finalist for the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1986.[5] Iain S. Duff recruited her to join the Harwell Laboratory (now part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) in 1987.[3][6] She became a professor at Reading in 2016.[3]
References
- 1 2 "Leslie Fox 1918–1992", Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton: 1961-1975, Science and Technology Facilities Council . See table of Fox's students at the end of this online booklet.
- ↑ "Jennifer Scott: Group Leader, STFC Fellow", Staff Profile, Reading Maths and Stats, retrieved 2018-10-13
- 1 2 3 4 5 Dr Jennifer Scott, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Scientific Computing Department, retrieved 2018-10-13
- ↑ Jennifer Scott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Duff, Iain (March–May 1987), "The 1986 Leslie Fox Prize Meeting" (PDF), IMA Bulletin, 23: 65–66
- ↑ Haigh, Thomas (August 2005), "An interview with Iain S. Duff", The history of numerical analysis and scientific computing, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
External links
- Jennifer Scott publications indexed by Google Scholar