Nicole Spillane (born 2 January 1988) is a French and Irish applied mathematician. She is a researcher with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, where she works in the center for applied mathematics of the

École Polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

. Her research concerns parallel algorithms for solving large systems of linear equations. Spillane studied for an engineering diploma at the École des ponts ParisTech from 2006 to 2010. Over the same period she visited

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

and the

Saclay Nuclear Research Centre The CEA Paris-Saclay (formerly CEA Saclay) center is one of nine centers belonging to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The Saclay site hosts the administrative headquarters of the CEA. Historically, it was the hea ...

, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

. She completed her doctorate in applied mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2014. Her dissertation, ''Méthodes de décomposition de domaine robustes pour les problèmes symétriques définis positifs'', was jointly supervised by Frédéric Nataf and Patrice Hauret. After postdoctoral research at the University of Chile, she joined CNRS and the École Polytechnique in 2015. In 2017 the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications gave Spillane their

Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis The Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a biennial prize established in 1985 by the IMA in honour of mathematician Leslie Fox (1918-1992). The prize honours "young numerical analyst ...

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