Martin Takac is a finalist in the 16th IMA Leslie Fox Prize competition

Congratulations to Martin Takac for becoming a finalist in the 16th IMA Leslie Fox Prize competition. This is an international competition of original research papers in numerical analysis, held bi-annually since 1985. Past finalists (1st or 2nd prize winners) include: Nick Trefethen, Nick Gould, James Demmel, Nick Higham, Reha Tutuncu, Jared Tanner, Timo Betcke, Laurent Demanet, Coralia Cartis and Yuji Nakatsukasa. Conveniently, the prize meeting will take place at ICMS, Edinburgh, on Monday June 24th, 2013: http://www.numerical.rl.ac.uk/fox/ The 6 finalists will each give a 40 min talk at the event; prizes will be decided and announced.