Job Title: Hebron & Medlock Professor of Information Technology and (until 2005) University Director of Information Technology
Images: Davenport in the robes of a Cambridge PhD, wearing the Bronze Medal of the University of Helsinki (awarded 2001). Davenport lecturing at RISC (Austria) in 2007. Davenport representing computer algebra at an Honorary Degree ceremony at Universitatae de Vest din Timisoara for Distinguished Professor Stephen Watt. Davenport, fully at the controls, cutting the first sod, both manually and mechanically, for the new home of the Department of Computer Science (23 September 2009). Davenport lecturing in Transylvania (26 September 2009). Davenport recently interviewed by BBC Radio Bristol.
Activities: Member (elected 24 March 2010 into a casual vacancy until May 2012, and again in 2012 until 2015) of the Council of the British Computer Society, and also sits on the Engineering and Science Board, and the Audit and Risk Committee, of the Society.
Founding Editor-in-Chief LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics: submit papers/queries here.
The first Ontario Research Chair in Computer Algebra
Former Royal Society Industrial Fellow.
Until June 2008, Director of Studies for undergraduates, and would still like them to speak English. He represents the University on the Bristol Military Education Committee. He is Pensions Representative for the local association of the Universities and Colleges Union.
Works in Computer Algebra, where he is an author of a textbook, many papers, posters and presentations. See Mathematical Reviews on JHD for a list that they consider "mathematical" (needs a subscription). His major research effort is a grant in Real Geometry and Connectedness via Triangular Description. He has other PhD research topics: see this topic list.
He spoke on security of cloud computing at BCS Bristol on March 2012.
He has been heavily involved in OpenMath. He was also Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust.
In 2011, he became leader of the PR and Recruitment Team in the Department of Computer Science.
