The Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a biennial prize established in 1985 by the IMA in honour of mathematician Leslie Fox (1918-1992). The prize honours "young numerical analysts worldwide" (any person who is less than 31 years old), and applicants submit papers for review. A committee reviews the papers, invites shortlisted candidates to give lectures at the Leslie Fox Prize meeting, and then awards First Prize and Second Prizes based on "mathematical and algorithmic brilliance in tandem with presentational skills."
Prize winners list Source: Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
1985 - Lloyd N. Trefethen (inaugural prize winner) 1986 - J. W. Demmel and N. I. M. Gould 1988 - Nicholas J. Higham 1989 - 3 first prizes: Martin Buhmann ("Multivariable cardinal interpolation with radial basis functions"), Bart De Moor ("The restrictricted singular value decomposition: properties and applications"), Andrew M. Stuart ("Linear instability implies spurious periodic solutions") 1991 - Christopher Budd and J. F. B. M. Kraaijevanger 1993 - Yuying Li 1995 - Adrian Hill 1997 - Wim Sweldens, ("The Lifting Scheme: A Construction of Second Generation Wavelets") 1999 - Niles Pierce and Reha Tütüncü 2001 - Anna-Karin Tornberg 2003 - Jared Tanner 2005 - Roland Opfer and Paul Tupper 2007 - Yoichiro Mori and Ioana Dumitriu 2009 - Brian Sutton 2011 - Yuji Nakatsukasa 2013 - Michael Neilan 2015 - Iain Smears and Alex Townsend 2017 - Nicole Spillane 2019 - Yunan Yang 2021 - Lindon Roberts 2023 - Alice Cortinovis and Melanie Weber 2025 - James Foster and Tizian Wenzel
Second Prize awardees Source: Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
1985 - Nicholas Higham (Manchester), S.P.J. Matthews (Dundee), P.K. Sweby (Reading), Y. Yuan (Cambridge) 1986 - J.L. Barlow (Penn State), J. Scott (Oxford), A.J. Wathen (Bristol) 1988 - T. Hagstrom (SUNY, Stony Brook), P.T. Harker (Univ of Pennsylvania), I.R.H. Jackson (Cambridge), T. Tang (Leeds) 1989 - M. Ainsworth (Durham), R.H. Chan (Hong Kong), Alan Edelman (MIT), Desmond Higham (Toronto) 1991 - J. Levesley (Coventry), P.D. Loach (Bristol), B.F. Smith (Argonne), H. Zha (Stanford) 1993 - A. Edelman (Berkeley), D.J. Higham (Dundee), Z. Jia (Bielefeld), P. Lin (Oxford), R. Mathias (Minnesota) 1995 - X-W. Chang (McGill), L. Jay (Minnesota), Y. Liu (Cambridge), K-C. Toh (Cornell), D. Wang (Purdue) 1997 - T.A. Driscoll (Boulder), Valeria Simoncini (Pavia), Eric de Sturler (Zurich), R.H. Tütüncü (Carnegie-Mellon), Antonella Zanna (Cambridge), T. Zhang (Stanford) 1999 - Aurelian Bejancu (Cambridge), Vincent Heuveline (Heidelberg), Paul Houston (Oxford), Ross Lippert (Sandia National Laboratories) 2001 - Tilo Arens (Brunel University), Begona Cano (University of Valladolid), Eric Darve (Stanford University), Jing-Rebecca Li (Courant Institute NYU), Dominik Schötzau (University of Minnesota), Divakar Viswanath (University of Chicago) 2003 - Melvin Leok (California Institute of Technology), Adam Oberman (University of Texas), Marc Schweitzer (University of Bonn), Tatjana Stykel (University of Calgary), Boris Vexler (University of Heidelberg) 2005 - Lehel Banjai (MPI, Leipzig), Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford), Johan Hoffman (Chalmers University), Fabio Nobile (Politecnico di Milano), Adam Oberman (Simon Fraser University) 2007 - Timo Betcke (University of Manchester), Laurent Demanet (Stanford University), Daniel Kressner (University of Zagreb), Emre Mengi (UC San Diego), Sheehan Olver (University of Cambridge) 2009 - Stefano Giani (Nottingham University), Daan Huybrechs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Armin Lechleiter (CMAPX, Polytechnique), Colin B. Macdonald (Mathematics, UCLA), Liuqiang Zhong (Xiangtan University) 2011 - Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University), Arnulf Jentzen (Princeton University), Richard Norton (University of Oxford), Bart Vandereycken (ETH), Konstantinos Zygalakis (University of Oxford) 2013 - Ingrid von Glehn (University of Oxford), Georges Klein (University of Fribourg), Martin Takáč (University of Edinburgh), Alex Townsend (University of Oxford), Andre Uschmajew (Technische Universität Berlin). 2015 - Patrick Farrell (University of Oxford), Olivier Fercoq (Telecom ParisTech), John Pearson (University of Kent), Clarice Poon (Cambridge University) 2017 - Mario Berljafa (KU Leuven), Evan Gawlik (University of California, San Diego), Robert Gower (Ecole Normale Superieure), Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard (New York University), Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh) 2019 - Alexander Bastounis (Cambridge University), Simone Brugiapaglia (Simon Fraser University), Daniel Fortunato (Harvard University), Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali (Heriot-Watt University) 2021 - Nicolas Boulle (University of Oxford), Derek Driggs (University of Cambridge), Theo Mary (Sorbonne University), Barbara Verfurth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 2023 - Matthew Colbrook (Cambridge), Matteo Croci (UT Austin), Ioannis Papadopoulos (Imperial College London), Shanyin Tong (Columbia University) 2025 - Sara Fraschini (Vienna), Georg Maierhofer (Cambridge), David Persson (NYU), Wenqi Zhu (Oxford)
See also List of mathematics awards
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