LLOYD N. TREFETHEN - BRIEF BIOGRAPHY  (November 2007)

Nick Trefethen is Professor of Numerical Analysis and head
of the Numerical Analysis Group at Oxford University.  He
was educated at Harvard and Stanford and held professorial
positions at NYU, MIT, and Cornell before coming to Oxford
in 1997.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member
of the US National Academy of Engineering.

As an author he is known for his books Numerical Linear
Algebra (1997), Spectral Methods in MATLAB (2000), Schwarz-
Christoffel Mapping (2002), and Spectra and Pseudospectra
(2005).  He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, with about
90 journal publications in numerical analysis and applied
mathematics, and has served as editor for many of the
leading numerical analysis journals.  He has lectured in
about 15 countries and 25 American states, including invited
lectures at both ICM and ICIAM congresses.

Some of Trefethen's recent activities include the SIAM
100-Dollar, 100-Digit Challenge, the notion of Ten Digit
Algorithms ("ten digits, five seconds, and just one page"),
the chebfun system for numerical computation with functions
instead of numbers, and a book in preparation called
Neoclassical Numerics.