Professor James Harold Davenport
Works in Computer Algebra, where he is an author of a
textbook,
many papers
and presentations.
He has been Project Chair of the
European
OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities
for aligning OpenMath and
MathML, where he gave (2/Oct/2008) a
talk
on the problems of differentiation, wrote a
paper
on conditions, and is producing
Content Dictionaries
and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML
translator.
He is organising the 22nd OpenMath workshop.
He was also Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust.
He chaired the Research Committee's Working Party on Powerful Computing:
report here, and is
on
the High-Performance
Computing Facilities Advisory Group.
There was a training course run by NAG on 17-19 September 2008: details here.
A similar course (register
here)
is planned for 26-28 January 2010.
In July 2007 he visited Hagenberg im Muehlkreis, at a variety of meetings:
his notes are here.
In January/February 2008 he visited the Third Joining Educational
Mathematics workshop in Barcelona. The slides of his talk are here, and his
(partial) notes are here.
On 18 February 2008 there was a special seminar in Bristol in honour of
Clifford Cocks: his notes are
here.
In July 2008 he visited Birmingham (U.K.), at a variety of meetings:
his notes are here.
Academic Year 2007/2008: in Semester 1 he taught
CM30070:
Computer Algebra and
CM30078/50123: Advanced Networking.
In Semester 2 he oversaw the teaching of CM30173/CM50210 Cryptography,
coordinated CM50209 Security, and supervised various projects.
Academic Year 2008/2009: in Semester 1 he is teaching
CM30070:
Computer Algebra and
CM30078/50123:
Advanced Networking.
In Semester 2 he is on sabbatical at the
University of Waterloo. See some photographs
here.
Academic Year 2009/2010: in Semester 1 he is teaching
XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics,
CM30070:
Computer Algebra and
CM30078/50123:
Advanced Networking.
On Tuedays at 10.15 in 6E2.2, he is running a
seminar series
on cylindrical algebraic decomposition. In September 2009, he lectured at the
UK's prize-giving for the International Mathematical Olympiad team: his slides
are here.
Letter in the Times
Higher Education Supplement: original here.
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of the church of Saint Mamas, patron saint of tax avoiders.
Telephone: +44 1225 386181
Fax: +44 1225 383436
E-mail Address: J.H.Davenport@bath.ac.uk
Postal Address:
Department of Computer Science
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
[University of Bath]
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