Hilary Ockendon
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1941 (age 84–85)
Hilary Ockendon | |
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| Born | Hilary Mason 1941 (age 84–85) Derby, UK |
| Education | Derby High School for Girls |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Spouse | [1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Fluid Mechanics Asymptotic Methods Industrial applications |
| Institutions | University of Oxford GCHQ |
| Thesis | Studies in Relaxing Gas Flow (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Spence[2] |
| Website | www |
Hilary Ockendon (née Mason, born 1941) is a British mathematician who worked at the University of Oxford until retirement in 2008. Her research focuses on applications of mathematics with a particular interest in continuum models for industrial problems. She is an emeritus fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, the former president of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, and the author of multiple books on fluid dynamics. She is an expert on problems in fluid dynamics, such as the reduction of sloshing in coffee cups.[3]
Born in Derby in 1941 Ockendon was privately educated at Derby High School for Girls from 1946 to 1959. In 1959 she started an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Oxford as a student of St Hilda's College, Oxford. After graduating her first job was at GCHQ but after 2 years she obtained a research/teaching post at Somerville College, Oxford and returned to Oxford. She completed her DPhil in 1968, and her dissertation, Studies in Relaxing Gas Flow, was supervised by David Spence.[4].
Career and research
After her DPhil, she appointed a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College and a lecturer at the University of Oxford, she held these positions until her retirement in 2008. Between 1988 and 1990 she served as Vice-Principal of Somerville[5]: .
Between 1994 and 2002 Ockendon served as director[6] of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford, where she is now an emerita member. She has been an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford since 2008.[5] She was president of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry from 2001 to 2003.[7]