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Australian mathematician (born 1938)
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Ian Sloan .
Ian Hugh Sloan
AO (born 17 June 1938,
[1] in Melbourne) is an Australian
applied mathematician .
He was educated at the
University of Melbourne (BSc 1958, BA (hons) 1960),
University of Adelaide (MSc, 1961) and
University College London , where he was supervised by renowned mathematical physicist Sir
Harrie Massey , and earned his PhD in 1964. He was a research scientist for the
Colonial Sugar Refining company 1964–5, and since 1965 has been at the
University of New South Wales , where he has been Scientia Professor since 1999. He served as Head of the School of Mathematics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1992 to 1993.
[2]
His early work was in theoretical
nuclear physics , but he moved to applied mathematics, especially
numerical analysis . Sloan has published more than 200 papers covering areas such as the numerical solution of
integral equations ,
numerical integration and interpolation, boundary integral equations,
approximation theory , multiple integration, continuous
complexity theory and other parts of numerical analysis and approximation theory. He has made important contributions to the theory of numerical integration in many dimensions, in recent years concentrating on
quasi-Monte Carlo methods .
[2]
After serving as vice-president and President elect 2017–2018, Sloan became President of the
Royal Society of New South Wales in 2018, taking over from
D. Brynn Hibbert .
[3]
Honours
Selected publications
Sloan, I. H. (1994).
Lattice methods for multiple integration . S. Joe. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
ISBN
0-19-853472-8 .
OCLC
30979041 .
[10]
Sloan, Ian H; Woźniakowski, Henryk (1 March 1998).
"When Are Quasi-Monte Carlo Algorithms Efficient for High Dimensional Integrals?" . Journal of Complexity . 14 (1): 1–33.
doi :
10.1006/jcom.1997.0463 .
ISSN
0885-064X .
Dick, Josef; Kuo, Frances Y.; Sloan, Ian H. (May 2013).
"High-dimensional integration: The quasi-Monte Carlo way" . Acta Numerica . 22 : 133–288.
doi :
10.1017/S0962492913000044 .
ISSN
0962-4929 .
S2CID
119518174 .
Sloan, Ian H.; Womersley, Robert S. (1 July 2004).
"Extremal Systems of Points and Numerical Integration on the Sphere" . Advances in Computational Mathematics . 21 (1): 107–125.
doi :
10.1023/B:ACOM.0000016428.25905.da .
ISSN
1572-9044 .
S2CID
12961424 .
YAN, Y.; SLOAN, I.H. (1988).
"On Integral Equations of the First Kind with Logarithmic Kernels" . The Journal of Integral Equations and Applications . 1 (4): 549–579.
doi :
10.1216/JIE-1988-1-4-549 .
ISSN
0897-3962 .
JSTOR
26162851 .
Kuo, Frances Y.; Schwab, Christoph; Sloan, Ian H. (1 January 2012).
"Quasi-Monte Carlo Finite Element Methods for a Class of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Random Coefficients" . SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis . 50 (6): 3351–3374.
doi :
10.1137/110845537 .
hdl :
20.500.11850/154997 .
ISSN
0036-1429 .
S2CID
1208726 .
Sloan, Ian H. (1 May 1985).
"Lattice methods for multiple integration" . Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics . 12–13: 131–143.
doi :
10.1016/0377-0427(85)90012-3 .
ISSN
0377-0427 .
References
^ Newsletter, Asia Pacific Mathematics (26 August 2013).
"An Interview with Ian Sloan" . Gonit Sora . Retrieved 13 October 2022 .
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Ian Sloan's web page , maths.unsw.edu.au, retrieved 2012-05-11.
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"List of Presidents – The Royal Society of NSW" . www.royalsoc.org.au . Retrieved 16 June 2018 .
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Citation for 1997 ANZIAM Medal , www.anziam.org.au
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Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal
Archived 2010-11-28 at the
Wayback Machine ,
Australian Academy of Science , retrieved 2010-06-06.
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Centenary Medal , 1 January 2001, www.itsanhonour.gov.auFor service to Australian society and science mathematics
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The George Szekeres Medal , www.austms.org.au
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Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) , 9 June 2008, www.itsanhonour.gov.auFor service to education through the study of mathematics, particularly in the field of computational mathematics, as an academic, researcher and mentor, and to a range of national and international professional associations.
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List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2013-07-20.
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