Person
Sloan, Ian Hugh (1938 - )
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- Born
- 17 June 1938
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician
Summary
Ian Sloan initially studied few-body collision problems in nuclear physics before changing to computational mathematics. His research focuses on boundary integral equations, high dimensional integration and approximation, information-based complexity, multivariate approximation theory, numerical analysis of integral and partial differential equations. He is noted for his work on the superconvergence properties of the so-called Galerkin method. Sloan was appointed to a personal chair in mathematics at the University of New South Wales from 1985, and was Scientia Professor from 1999 to 2004. For the Australian Academy of Science he was a Member of Council from 1995 to 1998 and chaired the National Committee on Mathematics between 1991 and 1997. In 2018 he became the President of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
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Chronology
- 1958
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1960
- Education - BA (Hons), University of Melbourne
- 1961
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Adelaide
- 1964
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of London
- 1964 - 1965
- Career position - Research Scientist, Colonial Sugar Refining Company
- 1965 - 1968
- Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of New South Wales
- 1968 - 1973
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of New South Wales
- 1973 - 1985
- Career position - Associate Professor in Mathematics, University of New South Wales
- 1985 - 1999
- Career position - Professor (personal chair, University of New South Wales
- 1986 - 1990
- Career position - Head, School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales
- 1987
- Career position - Associate Editor, Journal of integrated equations and applications
- 1989 - 1990
- Career position - Chair, Division of Applied Mathematics, Australian Mathematical Society
- 1991 - 1997
- Career position - Chair, National Committee on Mathematics, Australian Academy of Science
- 1992 -
- Career position - Associate Editor, Advances in computational mathematics
- 1992 - 1993
- Career position - Head, School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales
- 1992 - 1994
- Career position - Chair, Centre for Advanced Numerical Computation in Engineering and Science, University of New South Wales
- 1992 - 2000
- Career position - Director, NSW Centre for Parallel Computing, University of New South Wales
- 1993 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1993 - 1998
- Career position - Editor, SIAM journal of numerical analysis
- 1993 - 2000
- Career position - Associate Editor, SIMA journal of numerical analysis
- 1995 - 1998
- Career position - Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science
- 1997
- Award - ANZIAM Medal, ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
- 1997
- Career position - Member, Australian Research Grants Committee
- 1998 - 2000
- Career position - President, Australian Mathematical Society
- 1999 -
- Career position - Senior Editor, Journal of complexity
- 1999 - 2003
- Career position - Chair International Program Committee, 2003 International Congress in Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sydney
- 1999 - 2004
- Career position - Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales
- 2001
- Award - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society and science mathematics
- 2002
- Award - George Szekeres Medal (jointly), Australian Mathematical Society
- 2003 - ?
- Career position - Editor, SIAM journal of numerical analysis
- 2003 - 2007
- Career position - President, International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- 2004 -
- Career position - Associate Editor, Numerische Mathematik
- 2008
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AO) - For service to education through the study of mathematics, particularly in the field of computational mathematics, as an academic, researcher and mentor, and to a range of national and international professional associations
- 2009 - 2013
- Career position - Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Maths and Statistics of Complex Systems
- 2012 -
- Award - Fellow, American Mathematical Society
- 2014 -
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 2015 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales
- 2018 - April 2021
- Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Sloan was awarded the Telford Gold Medal 2000, for paper “Rigorous plasticity solutions for the bearing capacity of two-layered clays” [with R S Merifield, and H S Yu]', Award : Telford Gold Medal [1838 - ], Institution of Civil Engineers, 2022. https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/page/awards/telford-gold-medal. Details
- 'Sloan, I H (19380617-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-480616. Details
See also
- Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 2023. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/thomas-ranken-lyle-medal. Details
- ANZIAM, 'Sloan, Ian Hugh (1938 - )', The ANZIAM medal, ANZIAM (Austraian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2022, https://www.anziam.org.au/The+1997+ANZIAM+Medal. Details
- Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 9 June 2022