Hilary Ockendon

Hilary Ockendon 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.[2]

Dr Hilary Ockendon
Born1941
Derby, UK
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
University of Oxford (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Fluid Mechanics
Asymptotic Methods
Industrial applications
InstitutionsSomerville College, University of Oxford 1964-2008
ThesisRelaxing Gas Flow (1968)
Doctoral advisorDavid Spence[1]
Website

Education and career

Born in Derby in 1941 Ockendon attended Derby High School for Girls from 1946 to 1959. In 1959 she went up to read Mathematics at 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 and returned to Oxford. She completed her DPhil in 1968, and her dissertation, Relaxing Gas Flow, was supervised by David Spence.[3]. She was then appointed to a permanent position as a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville and a Lecturer at the University of Oxford[4]: she held these positions until her retirement in 2008.

She is the former director[5] and an emerita member of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and a fellow emerita of Somerville College, Oxford.[4] She was president of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry from 2001 to 2003.[6]

Books

Ockendon is the author of:

  • Inviscid Fluid Flows (with Alan B. Taylor, Oxford University, 1972; Springer, 1983)[7]
  • Viscous Flow (with John Ockendon, Cambridge University Press, 1995)[8]
  • Waves and Compressible Flow (with John Ockendon, Springer, 2004; 2nd ed., 2015)[9]

Knowledge transfer

She has had a particular interest in promoting Industrial Mathematics in Europe via the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry [6]: Council member (1998-2005), President (2001-2003), Executive Director (2012-15).

Personal life

Much of her research has been done in collaboration with her husband Professor John Ockendon.[10]

References
  1. "David A. Spence". jstor. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  2. Sorg, Lina (21 December 2017), "Mathematical model reveals solution to sloshing coffee", Research nuggets, SIAM News
  3. Hilary Ockendon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Hilary Ockendon, University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, retrieved 25 May 2019
  5. "OCIAM" (PDF), Oxford Mathematical Institute Newsletter, 1: 6, March 2003
  6. Past presidents, European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, 2016-01-22, retrieved 25 May 2019
  7. Reviews of Inviscid Fluid Flows:
    • Srivastava, K. M., zbMATH, Zbl 0512.76001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Heinrich, G., zbMATH (in German), Zbl 0386.76001CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jeffrey, Alan, Mathematical Reviews, MR 0421281CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hyers, D. H. (1984), Mathematical Reviews, MR 0693294CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hilbig, H. (1984), ZAMM, 64 (11): 502, doi:10.1002/zamm.19840641115CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. Reviews of Viscous Flow:
  9. Reviews of Waves and Compressible Flow:
  10. Rundle, John B.; Turcotte, Donald (1996), "Turcotte receives Whitten medal", Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 77 (10): 95, doi:10.1029/96eo00063
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