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After schooling in Ballarat in Victoria, Australia, Ian Sloan completed physics and mathematics degrees at Melbourne University, a Master's degree in mathematical physics at Adelaide, and a PhD in theoretical atomic physics (under the supervision of HSW Massey) at the University of London, finishing in 1964. After a decade of research on few-body collision problems in nuclear physics, and publishing some 35 papers in the physics literature, his main research interests shifted to numerical analysis. Since making that change he has published some 150 papers on the numerical solution of integral equations, numerical integration and interpolation, boundary integral equations, multiple integration, continuous complexity theory and other parts of numerical analysis and approximation theory.
He was employed by Australia's CSR Company from 1961 to 1965, before joining the University of New South Wales as a Lecturer in 1965. After several promotions, he was appointed to a Personal Chair in Mathematics in 1983. He was Head of the School of Mathematics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1992 to 1993. He has completed a term as Chair of the Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics Panel of the Australian Research Council, and a member of the ARC's Research Grants Committee, and is a former President of the Australian Mathematical Society .
He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1993. In 1997 he was awarded the ANZIAM Medal by the antipodean equivalent of SIAM, known as Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM), and in 2001 was awarded the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal of the Australian Academy of Science. He is a member of the editorial board of a number of international journals.
He was the Chair of the International Program Committee for ICIAM 2003, the fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, held in Sydney from July 7 to 11, 2003, and until October 1, 2007 is President of the body that oversees these congresses, the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Professor Ian Sloan's current research interests are in boundary integral methods, finite element methods, high dimensional numerical integration and related issues of information-based complexity, multivariate approximation theory, and the time discretisation of evolution problems.
Prof Sloan's research has been well supported by Australian Research Council grants, including a 6 year Program Grant from 1988 to 1993.
Current ARC large grants are for
In 2002 he is teaching a graduate course MATH 5305 Computational Mathematics (specifically, finite difference methods for PDE), and MATH 2011 Multivariable Calculus. Previously he has taught Discrete Mathematics, Control Theory, Functional Analysis , and many other subjects, including (but rarely) Numerical Analysis.
He is a member of the School's Policy and Resources Committee and Standing Committee.
He was Co-Chair of the New South Wales Centre for Parallel Computing, now subsumed into the Australian Centre for Advanced Computation and Communication (AC3). He is a former President of the Australian Mathematical Society, and a former Chair of its applied mathematics division, ANZIAM. He is currently Chair of the International Program Committee for ICIAM 2003, and President-Elect of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a member of the editorial boards of Advances in Computational Mathematics, Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, Journal of Complexity, and Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics, and formerly served on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis and the IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis.
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