Annual Meetings

SIAM UKIE Annual Meeting 2025

The 29th Annual Meeting of the SIAM UKIE Section will be hosted at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot on 11 April 2025.

Further information and a list of invited speakers will be available in due course.

Previous Annual Meetings

The SIAM UKIE Section has organised annual meetings since 1997. The inaugural meeting was held at The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) on 6 January 1997.

2024 Manchester (Website)

Speakers: Silvia Gazzola (University of Bath), Mike Jeffrey (University of Bristol), Natalia Kopteva (University of Limerick), Michela Ottobre (University of Heriot-Watt), Francis Watson (University of Manchester)

2023 Dublin (Website)

Speakers: Reidun Twarock (University of York), Julian Hall (University of Edinburgh), Miguel Bustamante (University College Dublin), and Sergiy Zhuk (IBM Dublin).

2022 Virtual meeting (Website)

Speakers: David Barrett (Google Deepmind), Sarah Dance (University of Reading), Marco Marletta (Cardiff University), John Pearson (University of Edinburgh), and Valeria Simoncini (University of Bologna).

2021 Virtual meeting

Speaker: Prof. James Gleeson (University of Limerick).

2020 Edinburgh

Speakers: Tania Bakhos (Amazon Development Centre Scotland), Romina Gaburro (University of Limerick), Peter Grindrod (University of Oxford), Christoph Ortner (University of Warwick) and Euan Spence (University of Bath).

2019 Oxford

Speakers: Lisa Fauci (SIAM President, Tulane University), Des Higham (Strathclyde University), Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb (IMA sponsored speaker, University of Cambridge), Kirk Soodhalter (Trinity College Dublin) and Konstantinos Zygalakis (University of Edinburgh).

2018 Southampton

Speakers: Frederic Dias (University College Dublin), Jacek Gondzio (University of Edinburgh), Gunnar Martinsson (University of Oxford), Ruth Misener (IMA sponsored speaker, Imperial College London) and Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh).

2017 Strathclyde

Speakers: Nick Higham (SIAM President, The University of Manchester), Jeremy Morley (Ordnance Survey), Sarah Waters (IMA Sponsored Speaker, University of Oxford), Marta M. Betcke (University College London), Lyuba Chumakova (The University of Edinburgh) and Angela Mihai (Cardiff University).

2016 Cambridge

Speakers: Pam Cook (SIAM President, University of Delaware), Martin Hairer, FRS (University of Warwick), Jasmina Lazic (MathWorks), Sarah Mitchell (University of Limerick), Jennifer Pestana (University of Strathclyde), Simon Tavaré, FRS, FMedSci (LMS President, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute & DAMTP, University of Cambridge) and Barbara Wohlmuth (IMA Sponsored Speaker, Technische Universität München, Germany).

2015 Bath

Speakers: Robert Scheichl (University of Bath), Michel Destrade (National University of Ireland, Galway), Jon Chapman (University of Oxford), Vanessa Styles (University of Sussex), Marco Iglesias (University of Nottingham) and Beth Wingate (University of Exeter).

2014 UCL

Speakers: Robert MacKay (University of Warwick), Irene Fonseca (SIAM President, Carnegie Mellon University), Nick Gould (Rutherford Appleton Lab), Stephen Hendry (Oasys Software Ltd.), Niall Madden (National University of Ireland, Galway), and Alain Goriely (University of Oxford).

2013 Reading

Speakers: Coralia Cartis (University of Edinburgh), Francoise Tisseur (University of Manchester), Clifford Nolan (University of Limerick), Sebastian Reich (Potsdam, Germany), and Endre Süli (University of Oxford).

2012 Leicester

Speakers: Helen Byrne (University of Oxford), Simon Chandler-Wilde (University of Reading), Charlie Elliott (University of Warwick), Bill Lionheart (University of Manchester), Alex Lipton (Bank of America Merrill Lynch/Imperial College), and Phillipe Toint (University of Namur).

2011 Manchester

Speakers: Simon Arridge (University College London), Charlie Elliott (University of Warwick), Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin), Mark Panitz (BAE Systems), Beatrice Pelloni (University of Reading), and Nick Trefethen, FRS (Incoming SIAM President, University of Oxford).

2010 Edinburgh

Speakers: Barbara Niethammer (University of Oxford), Matthias Heil (University of Manchester), Philip Maini (University of Oxford), Douglas Arnold (SIAM President, University of Minnesota), Ivan Graham (University of Bath), Michael Tretyakov (University of Leicester), and Greg Pavliotis (Imperial College).

2009 Limerick

Speakers: Andrew Fowler (University of Limerick), Andy Wathen (University of Oxford), Robin Knowles (TotalSim), Annick Sartenaer (University of Namur, Belgium), Dave Hewett (University of Oxford, SIAM Student Chapter), and James Gleeson (University of Limerick).

2008 Southampton

Speakers: Roland Keunings (Universite Catholique de Louvain), Celia Glass (City University), Christine De Mol (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Chris Farmer (Schlumberger), Peter Jimack (University of Leeds), and John King (University of Nottingham).

2007 Oxford

Speakers: Linda Cummings (University of Nottingham), Cleve Moler (SIAM President, Mathworks), Jon Chapman (University of Oxford), Andy Woods (University of Cambridge), Alison Ramage (University of Strathclyde), and Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick).

2006 Cardiff

Speakers: Peter Clarkson (University of Kent), Marty Golubitsky (SIAM President, University of Houston), Des Higham (University of Strathclyde), Ben Leimkuhler (University of Leicester), and Hinke Osinga (University of Bristol).

2005 Cork

Speakers: Russell Davies (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Ivan Graham (University of Bath), Neil O’Connell (University of Warwick), Niall O’Murchadha (University College Cork), and Alexei Pokrovskii (University College Cork).

2004 Sheffield

Speakers: David Thomson (UK Met Office), Lucy Wyatt (University of Sheffield), Alastair Fitt (University of Southampton), Pat Fitzpatrick (University College Cork), and Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee/ORNL).

2003 Bath

Speakers: Helen Byrne (University of Nottingham), Doug Arnold (Minnesota), John Toland (University of Bath), John Billingham (University of Birmingham), and Philippe Toint (University of Namur).

2002 Leeds

Speakers: Brian Sleeman (University of Leeds), Nick Higham (University of Manchester), Jens Marklof (University of Bristol), John Willis (University of Cambridge), and John Gibbon (Imperial College).

2001 Strathclyde

Speakers: Tim Goodman (University of Dundee), Howard Elman (University of Maryland), Valerie Isham (University College London), Mark Davis (Imperial College), and Alex Craik (University of St Andrews).

2000 Imperial College London

Speakers: John Ball (University of Oxford), John Dold (UMIST), Roger Fletcher (University of Dundee), Derek Moore (Imperial College), and Jan Verwer (CWI, Netherlands).

1999 Imperial College London

Speakers: Chris Budd (University of Bath), Charlie Elliot (University of Sussex), Colin Please (University of Southampton), Gil Strang (MIT, SIAM President), and Martin Stynes (University of Ireland, Cork).

1998 UMIST

Speakers: John Hinch (University of Cambridge), Rupert Klein (Free University of Berlin), Mark Chaplain (University of Dundee), Bill Morton (Oxford/Bath), and Nick Trefethen (University of Oxford).

1997 UMIST

Speakers: David Crighton (University of Cambridge), John Ockendon (University of Oxford), David Sloan (University of Strathclyde), Trevor Stuart (Imperial College), and Margaret Wright (SIAM President).

Below is a SIAM News report about this inaugural SIAM UKIE meeting.