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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 of US $3000.

2007 Wilkinson Prize

The 2007 Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software was awarded to Wolfgang Bangerth of Texas A&M University, Ralf Hartmann of DLR Germany and Guido Kanschat of Texas A&M University for the software package ‘deal.II’.

deal.II is a C++ program library targeted at adaptive finite elements and error estimation. It uses state-of-the-art programming techniques of the C++ programming language to offer you a modern interface to the complex data structures and algorithms required for adaptivity and enables you to use a variety of finite elements in one, two, and three space dimensions, as well as time-dependent problems.

To find out more about deal.II, go to http://www.dealii.org/

Previous Prize winners:

• The 2003 prize was awarded to Jonathan Shewchuch for 'Triangle' (ICIAM 03)
• The 1999 prize was awarded to Matteo Frigo and Steven Johnson for FFTW (ICIAM 99).
• The 1995 prize was awarded to Chris Bischof and Alan Carle for ADIFOR 2.0 (ICIAM 95).
• The 1991 prize was awarded to Linda Petzold for DASSL at the International Conference in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 91).

Contact us for further information:

Mrs Katie O'Hare
Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd.
Wilkinson House
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Oxford OX2 8DR
United Kingdom
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Professor Maurice Cox
National Physical Laboratory
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Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0LW
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