Françoise’s research adds up to Maths prize

A University of Manchester academic has won one of the oldest Maths awards. Françoise Tisseur was awarded the Adams Prize by The University of Cambridge for her research into numerical linear algebra. The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John's College Cambridge to a young (normally under 40 years of age), UK-based researcher doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences. This year's topic was 'Computational Mathematics' and, as well as Tisseur, was awarded to Sheehan Olver from The University of Oxford (currently University of Sydney). The Adams Prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and was endowed by members of St John's College. It is currently worth approximately £14,000. The prize commemorates Adams's role in the discovery of the planet Neptune, through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.