Ian Sloan

Ian Hugh Sloan AO (born 1938, Melbourne) is an Australian applied mathematician.

He was educated at the University of Melbourne (BSc 1958, BA (hons) 1960), University of Adelaide (MSc, 1961) and University College London, where he was supervised by renowned mathematical physicist Sir Harrie Massey, and earned his PhD in 1964. He was a research scientist for the Colonial Sugar Refining company 1964–5, and since 1965 has been at the University of New South Wales, where he has been Scientia Professor since 1999.

His early work was in theoretical nuclear physics, but he moved to applied mathematics, especially numerical analysis. His work has centred on numerical integration in many dimensions, in recent years concentrating on Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods.

Honours

In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
In 1997, he was awarded the ANZIAM Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society.^[1]
During 1998–2000, he was President of the Australian Mathematical Society.
He was the 2001 winner of the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal.^[2]
Also in 2001, he was awarded the Centenary Medal.^[3]
In 2002, he shared the inaugural George Szekeres Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society with Alf van der Poorten of Macquarie University.^[4]
During 2003–2007, he was President of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM).
In the June 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was proclaimed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).^[5]

^ Citation for 1997 ANZIAM Medal, www.anziam.org.au
^ Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ Centenary Medal, 1 January 2001, www.itsanhonour.gov.au
For service to Australian society and science mathematics
^ The George Szekeres Medal, www.austms.org.au
^ Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 9 June 2008,www.itsanhonour.gov.au
For service to education through the study of mathematics, particularly in the field of computational mathematics, as an academic, researcher and mentor, and to a range of national and international professional associations.