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Alex Townsend

Assosciate Professor

Cornell University

townsend@cornell.edu

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Awards

Best paper prize in Linear Algebra from SIAM (2024)

Best paper prize in Computational Science and Engineering from SIAM (2023)

Stephen H. Weiss award from Cornell for excellence in teaching and mentoring (2022)

2022 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics

NSF CAREER grant (2021)

Junior Faculty Teaching Award from Cornell Math Department (2018)

SIGEST award from SIAM Review for "The singular values of matrices with displacement structure" (2018).

The SIAG/LA Early Career Prize (2018).

A 1st place Leslie Fox prize for work on computing the discrete Hankel transform (2015).

SIAM UKIE certificate of recognition for talk at 25th Biennial Numerical Analysis conference in Strathclyde (2013).

A 2nd place Leslie Fox prize for work on the ultraspherical spectral method (2013).

SIAM UKIE prize for the best student talk at the 24th Biennial Numerical Analysis conference in Strathclyde (2011).

IMA prize for outstanding examination results (2009 & 2010).

Junior Maths Prize for outstanding examination results (2008 & 2009).

College scholarship for outstanding examination results (2007-2010).