Alison Ramage is a British
applied mathematician and
numerical analyst specialising in
preconditioning methods for
numerical linear algebra, and their applications to the numerical solution of
partial differential equations. She is a reader in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the
University of Strathclyde.
Education and career
Ramage is a graduate of the
University of St Andrews. She completed her PhD in 1991 at the
University of Bristol. Her dissertation, ''Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Galerkin Finite Element Equations'', was supervised by Andrew Wathen, and involved preconditioners for the
Galerkin method.
She is a member of the board of trustees of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...
.
Research
Ramage's thesis involved preconditioners for the
Galerkin method, and applications to the numerical solution of
partial differential equations in
computational fluid dynamics, including those for
incompressible flow and
advection–diffusion equations. Subsequently, she has applied her research to other areas including
geotechnical engineering
Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics for the solution of its respective engineering problems. It als ...
,
financial mathematics, modeling
liquid crystal
Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal may flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a crystal-like way. T ...
s,
weather forecasting, and
sensor networks.
References
External links
Home page*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British mathematicians
British women mathematicians
Numerical analysts
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Academics of the University of Strathclyde