Wayne Enright

Biography

Wayne Enright was born and raised in British Columbia. He received a BSc from UBC in 1968, an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1969 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1972. He was Chair of the department from 1993 to 1998. His research interests are in the general area of numerical analysis and scientific computation with a particular focus on the analysis and development of reliable numerical methods for ordinary differential equations and the design and evaluation of numerical software. Much of his research has been concerned with the development of more reliable and robust error control techniques for continuous numerical ODE methods. He and his students have developed general purpose reliable software packages for simulations in important application areas such as computational medicine, computational biology and population dynamics. He is also interested in the visualisation of solutions of partial differential equations and scientific visualization in general.

Professor Enright is a past president of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) and a current executive member of IFIP WG2.5 on Numerical Software. He has organized several international and national conferences and served on research evaluation panels in Canada, the US and the UK. He is also on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and Advances in Computational Mathematics and on the Advisory Board of COMPUTING.