Organization
The current head of the school is Peter Duck. The school is divided, mainly for the purposes of teaching administration, into three groups: Pure Mathematics headed by Richard Sharp, Applied Mathematics headed by David Silvester, and Probability and Statistics headed by Goran Peskir. The Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS) is a unit of the school focusing on the organising of mathematical colloquia and conferences, and research visitors. MIMS is headed by Nick Higham FRS, who is also Director of Research. Other high profile mathematicians at Manchester include Sir Martin Taylor FRS and Jeff Paris (Fellow of the British Academy)
Since its formation, the school has made some influential appointments including the topologist Viktor Buchstaber (a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and model theorist Alex Wilkie FRS. Numerical analyst Jack Dongarra, famous as one of the authors of LINPACK, was appointed in 2007 as Turing Fellow. In the autumn of 2007 another corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Albert Shiryaev was appointed to a 20% chair. Shiryaev is famous for his work on probability theory (he was a student of Kolmogorov) and for his work on financial mathematics.
As might be expected from its size, the school has a wide range of research interests, including the traditionally pure areas of Algebra, Analysis, Noncommutative geometry, Ergodic theory, Mathematical logic, Number theory, Geometry and Topology; and the more applied Dynamical system, Fluid dynamics, Solid mechanics, Inverse problems, Mathematical finance, Wave propagation and Scattering. The school also has a strong tradition in Numerical analysis and well established groups in Probability theory, and Mathematical statistics.
Manchester mathematicians have a long tradition of applying mathematics to industrial problems. Nowadays this involves not only the traditional applications in engineering and the physical sciences, but also in the life sciences and the financial sector. Some of the recent industrial partners include Qinetiq, Hewlett Packard, NAg, MathWorks, Comsol, Philips Labs, Thales Underwater Systems, Rapiscan Systems and Schlumberger.
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