Professor James Harold Davenport
Departments: Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences
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,
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).
Activities:
Member (elected 24 March 2010 into a casual vacancy until May 2012) of the Council of the British Computer 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 co-ordinates the Sun
Campus Ambassador programme for the campus: the current ambassador
is Anupriya Balikai, and the Bath
group's pages are here.
He represents the University on the
Bristol Military Education Committee.
Works in Computer Algebra, where he is an author of a
textbook,
many papers
and presentations,
and has been heavily
involved in OpenMath.
He was also Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust.
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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. and 26-28 January 2010.
A similar course
is planned for 25-27 January 2011.
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.
In July 2009 he visited Grand Bend (Ontario), at a variety of meetings under the portmanteau of `Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics':
his notes are here.
In July 2010 he visited CNAM (Paris, France), at a variety of meetings under the portmanteau of `Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics':
his (incomplete) notes are here.
In July 2010 he also visited the Technical University of Munich for the Internalional Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation ISSAC 2010:
his (incomplete) notes are here.
In June 2011 he would like to go to
ISSAC 2011 in San Jose - he feels he knows the way there.
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.
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
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