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Congratulations to Dr David Ham, joint winner of The Wilkinson Prize!

by Claudia Cannon

Awarded for the development of 'dolfin-adjoint'.

Congratulations to Dr David Ham who has been named joint winner of The Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software 2015. The prize is awarded for the development of 'dolfin-adjoint', a package which automatically derives and solves adjoint and tangent linear equations from high-level mathematical specifications of finite element discretisations of partial differential equations.

The prize will be presented at ICIAM 2015 and will consist of $3000 and a commemorative plaque.

For more information about the prize and the winners please see the following webpages:

The DoC webpage

Imperial College Natural Sciences newspage

The NAG website