Matthew Hennessy

 Matthew Hennessy

Matthew Hennessy

B.Sc (Honours) (UOIT), M.Sc (Oxford)

  • D.Phil student at OCCAM

Personal Web Page

eMail: Matthew [dot] Hennessy [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
Contact Form

CV: cv.pdf

Phone Number(s):

Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525

Office: RI.2.13

Departmental Address:

Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England

Research Interests: 
Prizes, Awards and Scholarships: 
  • Nuclear Electric Prize, 2010, Awarded to the student who obtains the highest cumulative average in the M.Sc. in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing course. 
  • OCCAM Studentship, 2010 - present
  • OCCAM Studentship, 2009
  • NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2009
Major/Recent Publications: 
  • Hennessy M.G., Muench, A.: A multiple-scales analysis of evaporation-induced Marangoni convection. Submitted to SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2012.
  • Hennessy M.G., Lewis G.M.: The primary transition in a differentially heated rotating channel of fluid with O(2) symmetry. Submitted to Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2012. 
  • Hennessy, M.G.: Liquid Snowflake Formation in Superheated Ice.  M.Sc. Thesis, 2010.  Supervised by Stephen Peppin and Rich Katz
Teaching: 
MT 2012:
  • Tutor for Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics
HT 2012:
  • TA for Applied Partial Differential Equations for MSc students 
  • TA for Further Partial Differential Equations for MSc students
MT 2011:
  • TA for Mathematical Methods for MSc students
  • TA for Techniques of Applied Mathematics for MSc students