Universitatae de Vest din Timişoara recently conferred an Honorary Doctorate on Davenport. These are the reasons. Davenport tried to say "thank you" (in Romanian and English). The degree certificate is pretty impressive, as were the supporters.
Works in Computer Algebra, where he is an author of a textbook, many papers (old HTML version here) (see here for recent ones, and his ResearchGate profile), posters and presentations, and editor-in-chief of conference volumes: CICM 2011, SYNASC 2016 and ICMS 2018. See Mathematical Reviews on JHD for a list that they consider "mathematical" (needs a subscription). He is a member of the MEGA (Méthodes Effectives en Géometrie Algébrique) Advisory Board.
Having been General Chair of the 2018 International Congress on Mathematical Software, he edited a Special Issue of Mathematics in Computer Science. He also played a significant role in the the 2020 International Congress on Mathematical Software.
His major research effort is following up his grant in Real Geometry and Connectedness via Triangular Description, and leading the exploration of the link between Symbolic Computation and Satisfiability Checking.
He is Director of the Bath node of the Institute of Coding with special responsibility for the Observatory work package. He also led for Bath in the development of the Institute of Coding bid into the OfS AI Masters project, which is now starting to deliver. In particular, he participated in the writing of the "Get ready for a Masters in Data Science and AI" preparatory course. This is now launched: First launch (31/08/2020) and Second launch (07/12/2020)
In 2016 and 2017, and jointly with Cécile Mailler in 2018, he supervised students on the IMI Undergraduate Research Internships programme. In 2017, this was funded by the SC-square project.
He has other PhD research topics: see this topic list. One of his research students talks about the experience.
Ph.D. | Ph.D. | M.Sc. | B.Sc. | Ph.D. | Ph.D. |
Ali El Kaafarani | David Wilson | Efthymia Viopoulou | Stavros Kaparelos | Benjamin Pring | Jessica Jones |
Traceability, Linkability and Policy Hiding in Attribute-Based Signature Schemes | Advances in Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition | An investigation of JavaScript isolation mechanisms Sandboxing implementations | Extending Cachegrind : L2 cache inclusion and TLB measuring | Cryptography against an adversary with quantum resources | Auto-tuning compiler options for HPC |
Thesis | Thesis | Dissertation | Dissertation; Code; Slides at FOSDEM 2015 | Thesis | Thesis |
He chaired the Research Committee's Working Party on Powerful Computing: report here, and is on the High-Performance Computing Facilities Advisory Group: see service details here. The current system is called Balena. Looking at the Balena system. Whole album is here. He led for Bath in the GW4 project for an innovative ARM-based supercomputer, Phase 1 of which is pictured here. He is currently chairing a Project Board looking at whether to replace Balena with a cloud offering. |
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His notes on various scientific meetings are listed here.
Letter in the Times Higher Education Supplement: original here.
Image 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
Academic Year 2019/20 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra, CM50209 Cybersecurity, and CM50283 Cybersecurity. He also supervised projects in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.
Academic Year 2018/19 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra, CM50209 Cybersecurity, and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics. He also supervised projects in Computer Science.
Academic Year 2017/18 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics. He also supervised projects in Computer Science.
Academic Year 2016/17 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics. He also supervised projects in Computer Science.
Academic Year 2015/16 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics, and contributed to CM20215: Systems Development. He also supervised projects in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.
Academic Year 2014/15 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics, and contributed to CM20215: Systems Development.
Academic Year 2013/14 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics, and contributed to CM20215: Systems Development.
Academic Year 2012/13 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics (HEA workshop 4 February 2013), and contributed to CM20215: Systems Development and CM30072: safety-Critical Systems.
Academic Year 2011/12 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics, and contributed to CM20215; Systems Development.
Academic Year 2010/11 he taught CM30070: Computer Algebra and XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics: getting started instructions.
Academic Year 2009/2010: in Semester 1 he taught XX10190: Programming and Discrete Mathematics, CM30070: Computer Algebra and CM30078/50123: Advanced Networking, and in Semester 2 continued with XX10190.
Academic Year 2008/2009: in Semester 1 he taught 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 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.
In September 2009, he lectured at the UK's prize-giving for the International Mathematical Olympiad team: his slides are here.