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National Life Stories an Oral History of British Science
NATIONAL LIFE STORIES AN ORAL HISTORY OF BRITISH SCIENCE Professor Michael McIntyre Interviewed by Paul Merchant C1379/72 Please refer to the Oral History curators at the British Library prior to any publication or broadcast from this document. Oral History The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB United Kingdom +44 (0)20 7412 7404 [email protected] Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this transcript, however no transcript is an exact translation of the spoken word, and this document is intended to be a guide to the original recording, not replace it. Should you find any errors please inform the Oral History curators The British Library National Life Stories Interview Summary Sheet Title Page Ref no: C1379/72 Collection title: An Oral History of British Science Interviewee’s surname: McIntyre Title: Professor Interviewee’s forename: Michael Sex: Male Occupation: Applied Date and place of birth: 28/7/1941, Sydney, mathematician Australia Mother’s occupation: / Father’s occupation: Neurophysiologist Dates of recording, tracks (from – to): 28/03/12 (track 1-3), 29/03/12 (track 4-6), 30/03/12 (track 7-8) Location of interview: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Name of interviewer: Dr Paul Merchant Type of recorder: Marantz PMD661 Recording format : WAV 24 bit 48kHz Total no. of tracks: 8 Mono/Stereo: Stereo Total Duration: 9:03:31 Additional material: The interview transcripts for McIntyre’s mother, Anne, father, Archibald Keverall and aunt, Anne Edgeworth are available for public access. Please contact the oral history section for more details. -
De Morgan Newsletter 2008
UCL DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS DDee MMoorrggaann AAssssoocciiaattiioonn NNeewwsslleetttteerr from the Department of Mathematics UCL Issue - 16 - 2008 Editor - Michael O'Neill De Morgan Association Dinner Wednesday 4 June 2008 The venue for the Annual Dinner of the De Morgan Association was again the Jeremy Bentham Room at UCL. Over the years it has been known by other names – most of us will remember it as the Upper Hall, one of the refectories. Its relatively new name was particularly fitting since our Guest of Honour was Dr Andew Murrison MP, who spoke on some of the work of Jeremy Bentham as a social reformer. Dr Murrison is currently Shadow Minister of Defence, having previously been Shadow Minister of Health. His political career mirrors his earlier career in the medical branch of the Royal Navy, when research into neurological decompression illness led to the award of an MD and the Gilbert Blane Medal. This year marked the 10th Anniversary of the death of Sir James Lighthill on 17 July 1998. Sir James was one of Britain’s great mathematicians and a former Provost of UCL and, on his retirement, a member of the Department of Mathematics. He died tragically while engaging in one of his hobbies of long distance swimming. In this issue of the Newsletter, Professor Julian Hunt, who was the founding Dr Andrew Murrison speaking at the Director of the Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Sciences, De Morgan Association Dinner assesses Lighthill’s legacy to the mathematical sciences some 10 years after his untimely death. The year also marked the retirement of two distinguished members of the Department – Professor John Jayne and Dr Kalvis Jansons – and the arrival of one new member of the academic staff, Professor Alexey Zaikin. -
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Memorial Tributes: Volume 19 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 19 BERNARD BUDIANSKY 1925–1999 Elected in 1976 “Contributions to the understanding of buckling phenomena, materials behavior, and new mathematical analyses of structural response.” BY JOHN HUTCHINSON BERNARD BUDIANSKY, an engineering scientist whose re- search and teaching shaped the fields of structures and the me- chanics of materials, died at the age of 73 on January 23, 1999, in Lexington, Massachusetts. No one who interacted with Bernie would fail to remember the delightfully opinionated, thought- fully probing, 6′4″ man with a large personality to match. Bernie’s career coincided with the US space effort and the expansion of engineering research in American universi- ties. His first technical job after college was at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). From 1955 until his retirement in 1995, he was on the faculty in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, as the Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics from 1961 and then as the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering from 1983. His early research and consulting were heavily influ- enced by his exposure to developments in space structures at NACA (predecessor of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA). Many of his early contributions focused on plate and shell structures in studies of buckling, vibrations, and flutter. His research interests were as dynamic as his persona. Over his career, he made fundamental contri- butions to plasticity theory, composite materials, and many 39 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. -
Prizes and Awards Session
PRIZES AND AWARDS SESSION Wednesday, July 12, 2021 9:00 AM EDT 2021 SIAM Annual Meeting July 19 – 23, 2021 Held in Virtual Format 1 Table of Contents AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture ................................................................................................... 3 George B. Dantzig Prize ............................................................................................................................. 5 George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition .................................................................................... 7 George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics ......................................................................................... 8 I.E. Block Community Lecture .................................................................................................................. 9 John von Neumann Prize ......................................................................................................................... 11 Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization .......................................................................................... 13 Ralph E. Kleinman Prize .......................................................................................................................... 15 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession ....................................................................... 17 SIAM Student Paper Prizes .................................................................................................................... -
November 2013
LONDONLONDON MATHEMATICALMATHEMATICAL SOCIETYSOCIETY NEWSLETTER No. 430 November 2013 Society MeetingsSociety ONE THOUSAND to publicise LMS activities and Meetings AND COUNTING mathematics more generally, and Events and leave with a range of pub- and Events Three hundred people visited De lications including the Annual 2013 Morgan House on Sunday 22 Sep- Review and information about tember 2013 as part of the an- membership, grants and Women Friday 15 November nual London Open House event. in Mathematics. LMS Graduate Student Since first participating in Open The feedback from visitors Meeting, London House three years ago over 1,000 was again very positive. The LMS page 4 people have visited De Morgan will continue to develop its pres- Friday 15 November House, learning about the Society ence at the event and is already LMS AGM, London and mathematics more generally. discussing a more comprehen- page 5 sive programme for next year. 1 Monday 16 December SW & South Wales 2013 ELECTIONS Regional Meeting, TO COUNCIL AND Swansea page 13 NOMINATING 18-20 December COMMITTEE LMS Prospects in Members should now have re- Mathematics, Durham ceived a communication from the page 14 Electoral Reform Society (ERS) for both e-voting and paper ballot. 2014 For online voting, members may cast a vote by going to www.vote- Friday 28 February byinternet.com/LMS2013 and us- Mary Cartwright ing the two part security code on Lecture, York the email sent by the ERS and also Monday 31 March on their ballot paper. Northern Regional All members are asked to look Meeting, Durham out for communication from page 19 At this year’s event visitors the ERS. -
Timoshenko Medal Past Honorees
20032003 TimoshenkoTimoshenko MedalMedal Presented to Professor L.B. Freund In recognition of Seminal contributions to the mechanics of dynamic fracture, seismology, and the mechanical behavior of thin films. Presented at The Applied Mechanics Division Banquet The 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress in Washington, DC November 18, 2003 Presiding: Pol D. Spanos ASME/AMD Chair 2003-2004 L. B. FREUND, Ph.D. Brown University Providence, RI r. Freund began his career at Brown University (Providence, R.I.) in 1967 as a postdoctoral research associate in the Ddivision of engineering. He joined the teaching faculty as assistant professor in 1969, and was promoted to associate professor in 1973 and professor in 1975. He served as chair of the Engineering Executive Committee (1979-83) and, in 1987, he was appointed as the Henry Ledyard Goddard University professor. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford University, California; Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.); the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; the University of California at Berkeley; and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, Calif). Freund’s early research focused on the dynamic response of materials to applied loading, an interest that evolved into a long-term study of dynamic fracture phenomena, including work on seismic source modeling, rupture of natural gas transmission lines, crack arrest in ship hulls and reactor pressure vessels, computational methods for dynamic fracture, the influence of crack tip plasticity on rapid crack growth and other materials issues. This effort culminated in the publication of a monograph, Dynamic Fracture Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Freund continues to pursue several issues in this general area, including plastic bifurcation and ductile fragmentation of materials at high rates of deformation. -
De Morgan Newsletter 2017
UCL DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS NEWSLETTER 2017/18 De Morgan Association NEWSLETTER UCL Mathematics Department The Department’s commitment to research and teaching of core mathematics, along with our willingness to embrace and collaborate with Professor Robb McDonald researchers in other disciplines, of which there Head Of Mathematics Department are many at UCL, is something we are keen to build on. I am delighted that this ambition has A glance through this year’s De Morgan now been recognised formally by the University. newsletter reveals a busy year with much In September 2017 UCL’s Provost and President, success to celebrate. We were pleased to Professor Michael Arthur, announced a small welcome four new Lecturers: Roger Casals, Ed number of ‘ideas’ key to UCL’s evolution which Segal, Iain Smears and Ewelina Zatorska. We (i) demonstrate genuine, grassroots academic are especially grateful to the estate of Howard enthusiasm, (ii) come from areas that have Davies, a former long-serving colleague, whose the potential to become world-leading and (iii) generous donation helped make one of these be deeply cross-disciplinary. Among these appointments. elite ideas is the ambition to co-locate UCL’s Departments of Mathematics and Statistical The department’s sustained recruitment of Science to form an Institute of Mathematical and outstanding staff such as Ed, Ewelina, Iain, and Statistical Sciences (IMSS). Professor Arthur Roger, along with excellent undergraduate and writes of Mathematics, Statistical Science and postgraduate students clearly demonstrates IMSS: the health of our subject. Mathematics is, of course, a fundamental discipline, and one which ‘Research quality and student experience are is finding ever-increasing applications, often already excellent in these subjects, but they lack in surprising areas. -
Memorial Tributes: Volume 15
THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/13160 SHARE Memorial Tributes: Volume 15 DETAILS 444 pages | 6 x 9 | HARDBACK ISBN 978-0-309-21306-6 | DOI 10.17226/13160 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK National Academy of Engineering FIND RELATED TITLES Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. (Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 15 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 15 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 15 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Memorial Tributes Volume 15 THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS Washington, D.C. 2011 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 15 International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-309-21306-6 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-309-21306-1 Additional copies of this publication are available from: The National Academies Press 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Lockbox 285 Washington, D.C. 20055 800–624–6242 or 202–334–3313 (in the Washington metropolitan area) http://www.nap.edu Copyright 2011 by the National Academy of Sciences. -
James Lighthill (1924–98)
news and views Obituary and go on studying them!” And so he did. James Lighthill (1924–98) It was through this total immersion that a new realm of scientific endeavour was Applied mathematician defined, explored and revealed to the fluid dynamics community. ORIAL and fluid dynamicist In biofluiddynamics, Lighthill ICT Fluid dynamics developed and has contributed equally to our understanding continued to thrive through its of the flight of birds and of insects, topics UNIVERSAL P applicability to fields of great practical for which his mastery of aerodynamics8 was importance. Dominant among these, well adapted. His appointment as provost during the first half of this century, was of University College London (1979–89) aerodynamics, which grew from an did nothing to diminish his formidable embryonic understanding of boundary- research output. Again, his interaction layer theory, flow instability, and subsonic with zoologists was of key importance. and supersonic flow. Since about 1960, the One such collaboration stands out — that dynamics of ocean and atmosphere, with with Torkel Weis-Fogh, a successor of its intricate interplay of wave-motion and James Gray at Cambridge — which led to turbulence, has emerged as a field of elucidation of the mechanism of lift- comparable vitality. And since about 1970, production in small hovering insects. This the fluid dynamics of biological systems is the clap–fling–sweep sequence by which has developed as a field of immense circulation round each wing, and so lift, is challenge now ripe for rapid growth. generated by an essentially inviscid James Lighthill’s meteoric career was mechanism. Thus does the chalcid wasp characterized by pioneering contributions Encarsia formosa achieve a lift coefficient in each of these areas. -
Curriculum Vitae: Michael Edgeworth Mcintyre 1941 Born 28 July, Sydney
Curriculum Vitae: Michael Edgeworth McIntyre Home page http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/ Updated 29 March 2012 1941 Born 28 July, Sydney, Australia 1963 B.Sc.Hons. (1st class) in mathematics, University of Otago, New Zealand. (Robert Jack Prize, NZ Inst. of Chemistry Prize, Senior Scholarship in Science) 1963 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Otago. 1963–66 Commonwealth Scholar 1967 PhD in geophysical fluid dynamics, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: F.P. Bretherton. Thesis title: Convection and baroclinic instability in rotating fluids 1967 Summer postdoctoral fellow in geophysical fluid dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1967–69 Postdoctoral research associate with Jule G. Charney and Norman A. Phillips, Dept. of Meteorology, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 1969–72 Assistant Director of Research in Dynamical Meteorology, Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge 1972–87 University Lecturer, same Department. 1987–93 Reader in Atmospheric Dynamics, same Department. 1992–2003 Co-director, Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science 1993–2008 Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, same Department. 2008– Emeritus Professor, same Department. Main Honours 1968–71 Research Fellowship, St John’s College, Cambridge 1981 Adams Prize, University of Cambridge 1984 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Senior Visiting Fellow 1985 Stewartson Memorial Lecturer, University College London Victor P. Starr Memorial Lecturer, M.I.T. 1987 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (highest award -
Prof. Bernard Budiansky
Professor Bernard Budiansky (1925 – 1999) On this and the next page: A Biographical Memoir by Professor James R. Rice, et al, written in 2000 Memorial Minute on the life and services of the late Professor Bernard Budiansky, Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics, Emeritus, and Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Emeritus Bernard Budiansky was an unabashed enthusiast about his profession, family, friends, and many other good things in life. He made innovative contributions to nearly every subfield of solid mechanics — the science of how materials and structures stretch, shake, buckle and break. His work as an applied mathematician and mechanical engineer strongly influenced structural engineering and materials technology, and even seismology and biomechanics. He died from cancer at 73 years on 23 January 1999. Bernie was born in New York on 8 March 1925 to Russian immigrant parents who soon separated, and was raised by his mother and grandfather. He obtained a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from CCNY in 1944 when he was barely over 19, a remarkable fact which, characteristically, none of us ever recall his mentioning. He was a child of the heroic era of large engineering structures, and his love of structural mechanics was to be lifelong. But while at CCNY he became equally enamored with mathematics and physics, and could not fail to be attracted by the then new challenges of aeronautical structural mechanics. Accordingly, he jumped at a first job offer as an aeronautical research scientist with a newly formed unit of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, forerunner to NASA) at Langley, Virginia, concerned with high speed flight. -
Sanders, Jr., Was Spread Upon the Permanent Records of the Faculty
At a meeting of the FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES on March 13, 2007, the following tribute to the life and service of the late John Lyell Sanders, Jr., was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. JOHN LYELL SANDERS, JR. BORN: September 11, 1924 DIED: October 7, 1998 John Lyell Sanders, Jr., served on the Harvard faculty for a total of thirty seven years and as Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics for over thirty years from 1964 until his retirement in 1995. His tenure spanned a period of major advances in understanding the mechanics of solids and structures and coincided with the general expansion of engineering science and technology in American universities following the launch of Sputnik in 1957. Lyell, as he was known to all, focused primarily on the fundamentals of aerospace structures. To colleagues, Lyell was renowned for deep insights into mechanics combined with unusual mathematical dexterity. He will long be remembered for the accuracy and care behind his research and teaching and for his ever-present dry wit. J. Lyell Sanders, Jr., was born on September 11, 1924, in Highland, Wisconsin, and died on October 7, 1998, in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He obtained an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1945, and was drafted into the U.S. Army the day after his graduation serving for two years in a cryptography unit. Lyell was introduced to the field of shell structures at MIT where he obtained his master’s degree with a theoretical thesis on a rather esoteric class of structures, helical shells.