Joan E. Walsh

Joan Walsh
Born(1932-10-07)7 October 1932
Died30 December 2017(2017-12-30) (aged 85)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)(1954) University of Cambridge (Dip)(1958)
University of Oxford (DPhil)(1961)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Numerical analysis
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Thesis Numerical solution of partial differential equations using a high speed computer  (1960)
Doctoral advisorLeslie Fox
Doctoral students
  • Thomas Sag
  • Les Graney
  • David Sayers
  • Geoffrey McKeown
  • Roderick Cook
  • Patricia Hanson
  • Guy Lonsdale
  • Chan Basaruddin
  • Fathalla Rihan (supervised jointly with C. T. H. Baker)

Joan Eileen Walsh FIMA (7 October 1932 – 30 December 2017) was a British mathematician, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Manchester, and the founding chair of the Numerical Algorithms Group.