Student Awards
To help maintain the flow of new students, in numerical fields, who are the potential innovators of tomorrow; NAG is actively extending its range of student awards.
Would you like to win a free pass to the prestigious finance event?
If you're a student (BSc, MSc, PhD etc) studying mathematical finance or similar you can enter the NAG ‘direct award’ prize by sending through details of your project. Your work might be a technical paper or mini-article or a piece of code that uses NAG software. Submit your work or contact us for more information by email. The prize includes a monetary contribution to travel and accommodation and we will also consider contributing to other mathematical finance conferences not listed above.
The most recent winner of a NAG ‘direct award’ prize is Stan Stilger, Manchester Business School, who was awarded the prize for his paper 'The Use of Importance Sampling to Speed Up Stochastic Volatility Simulations'.
Previous Winners of the NAG ‘direct award’
Eduard Dubin, Scientific Assistant at Goethe University, Frankfurt was awarded his prize for his paper ‘Habit formation heterogeneity: Implications for aggregate asset pricing’.
Niloofar Safiran of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Please see her winning paper "Toward Adjoint Based Optimization in Computational Finance" here.
Nicoletta Gabrielli, University of Rome, Masters Student. To learn more about Nicoletta's work visit http://www.nag.co.uk/about/student_awards/work.asp.
NAG Awards in collaboration with academic institutions
The NAG Prize at the University of Manchester is awarded annually to recognize the achievements of students on mathematical and computing related MSc courses.
2012 winners are Randall Errol Martyr for his MSc in Mathematical Finance and Robert Andrew for his MSc in Mathematics & Computational Science. Both students were chosen for their outstanding results and achievements on their chosen courses
Presentation by Dr Craig Lucas (NAG) of NAG Prize in Mathematical Finance to Randall Errol Martyr, May 18, 2012 at The University of Manchester (image copyright Nick Higham)
Presentation by Dr Craig Lucas (NAG) of NAG Prize in Mathematics and Computational Science to Robert Andrew, May 18, 2012 at The University of Manchester (image copyright Nick Higham)
The Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
In honour of the outstanding contributions of James Hardy Wilkinson to the field of numerical software, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory, and the Numerical Algorithms Group award a numerical software prize every 4 years.
More awards…
As part of the 40th anniversary NAG are extending the awards that it funds to more institutions across the globe. If your department or institution would like to benefit from a NAG 40th anniversary award please contact us at nagmarketing@nag.co.uk and we can provide you with details.